Additional graduate and Higher National Certificate (HNC) places pledge: FOI release

Information requested

Any information (e.g. figures or civil servant briefings) on the Scottish Government's performance regarding its pledge to work "with the Scottish Funding Council to offer over 1,500 additional places on Higher National Certificate courses in colleges in 2018-19 and over 400 extra graduate level places."

Response

In collaboration with colleagues at the Scottish Funding Council, over 1,800 HNC and over 400 graduate level, additional Early Learning and Childcare related places were provided for the academic year 2018/19. Those
places were distributed as across further and higher education institutions as set out below. Please note that graduate level courses are provided across further and higher education institutions.

College/Region	Additional HNC places in 2018-19
Ayrshire College	176
Borders College	46
Dumfries & Galloway College	42
Dundee & Angus College	99
Edinburgh College	243
Fife College	183
Forth Valley College	105
Glasgow Region	172
Highlands & Islands Region	198
Lanarkshire Region	175
North East Scotland College	143
West College Scotland	200
West Lothian College	77
Scotland	1859
Graduate level
College/Region	Additional PDA (Level 9) places in 2018-19
Edinburgh College	38
Glasgow Region	51
North East Scotland College	13
Total	102
University	Additional places in 2018-19
University of Aberdeen,	45
University of Dundee,	63
University of Edinburgh,	50
University of Glasgow,	47
University of Highlands and Islands,	47
University of Strathclyde,	98
University of West of Scotland,	37
Total	388

 

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