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Data Provider: Welsh Government National Statistics Student enrolments in Wales with teaching through the medium of Welsh by institution
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CoverageFor data between 2008/09 and 2012/13, students in the Open University in Wales are identified as students at the Open University who are funded by the Higher Education Funding Council. Between 2013/14 and 2019/20, they are identified as Welsh domiciled students studying at the Open University. From 2020/21, they are counted as students registered at the Welsh national centre of the Open University.[Filtered]
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[Collapse]All enrolmentsAll enrolments at Welsh HEIs regardless of language of provisionClick here to sortAll enrolmentsAll enrolments at Welsh HEIs regardless of language of provision
Click here to sortEnrolments with some teaching through WelshStudents studying at least one module with a non-zero proportion of teaching through the medium of Welsh.Click here to sortEnrolments with at least 5 credits in WelshClick here to sortEnrolments with at least 40 credits in WelshClick here to sortEnrolments with at least 80 credits in WelshClick here to sortEnrolments with at least 120 credits in WelshClick here to sortEnrolments with no teaching in Welsh
[Collapse]Higher education and further education institutions7,2156,0702,7651,390835141,835149,045
Higher education and further education institutionsAberystwyth University430425315125457,4157,845
Bangor University1,4051,3809305552659,10010,505
Cardiff UniversityFrom 2004/05 data include student enrolments that were previously classified under University of Wales College of Medicine due to a merger between the institutions in 2004.4004002951106533,58533,985
Cardiff Metropolitan UniversityUWIC renamed as Cardiff Metropolitan University28528525522516512,33512,620
Wrexham UniversityGlyndwr University renamed as Wrexham University105.Data item not applicable.Data item not applicable.Data item not applicable7,4807,490
Gower College Swansea.Data item not applicable.Data item not applicable.Data item not applicable.Data item not applicable.Data item not applicable5050
Grwp Llandrillo Menai3953952357065515910
NPTC Group.Data item not applicable.Data item not applicable.Data item not applicable.Data item not applicable.Data item not applicable180180
Open University3951354515.Data item not applicable14,46014,855
Swansea University680520140352021,61022,290
University of Wales Trinity Saint DavidUniversity of Lampeter and Trinity College Carmarthen merged in 2011 to form University of Wales Trinity Saint David (re-used code 0176)3,1002,41050523520011,94515,045
University of South WalesThe University of South Wales is a university in Wales. It was formed on 11 April 2013 from the merger of the University of Glamorgan and the University of Wales, Newport11011045101023,16023,270

Metadata

General description

This data provides information on students taught through the medium of Welsh at Higher Education Institutions in Wales.

The Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) collect data on students, staff and resources of higher education institutions (HEIs) in the UK. The data presented in this table is taken from HESA's Student Record which contains information on all students enrolled on credit bearing courses at UK HEIs. Further information about HESA and their data collections can be found on their website www.hesa.ac.uk

The Student Record contains information about individual enrolments, which, because a student can be enrolled on more than one programme of study, will exceed the number of students. However, previous analysis has shown that for Welsh HEIs full-time enrolments are less than 1 per cent higher than full-time student numbers; part-time enrolments are less than 2 per cent higher than part-time student numbers.

Postdoctoral students are not included in the HESA Student Record.

Students being taught through the medium of Welsh are defined as students studying at least one module with a non-zero proportion of teaching through the medium of Welsh. See dimension notes for more detail.

Data collection and calculation

Source: Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) Student Record.
Contact: HigherEducationAndStudentFinance.Stats@gov.wales

Frequency of publication

Annual

Data reference periods

The HESA standard registration population is a count of all enrolments within the reporting year 1 August to 31 July. Students who leave within 2 weeks of their start date, or anniversary of their start date, and are on a course of more than two weeks duration, are not included in the standard registration population. Dormant students, incoming visiting and exchange students from overseas and students studying for the whole of their programme of study outside of the UK are also excluded from this population.

Rounding applied

The presentation of figures in this table follows the principals of the HESA rounding strategy. The strategy is intended to prevent the disclosure of personal information about any individual. This strategy involves rounding all numbers to the nearest 5. A summary of this strategy is as follows:
• Numbers less than 2.5 are rounded to 0 and represented as '.'
• All other numbers are rounded to the nearest 5
Total figures are also subject to this rounding methodology; the consequence of which is that the sum of numbers in each row or column may not match the total shown precisely.

Title

Student enrolments in Wales with teaching through the medium of Welsh

Last update

21 September 2023 21 September 2023

Next update

July 2024 (Provisional)

Publishing organisation

Welsh Government

Source 1

Higher education student record, Higher Education Statistics Agency

Contact email

HigherEducationAndStudentFinance.Stats@gov.wales

Designation

National Statistics

Languages covered

English and Welsh

Data licensing

You may use and re-use this data free of charge in any format or medium, under the terms of the Open Government License - see http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence

Keywords

Higher Education

Statistical quality

Some fluctuations in Welsh medium enrolments are largely due to changes in provision of ‘bite sized’ courses at University of Wales Trinity St David. These courses were only reported via HESA for the first time in 2015/16 and Welsh medium enrolments were previously under reported for 2013/14 and 2014/15 at UWTSD. Due to lack of staff, funding and resources some of these modules were unavailable for 2016/17.
Welsh medium enrolments were under reported for 2013/14 and 2014/15 at UWTSD due to differences in reporting systems at newly merged institutions.
From 2010/11, Further Education (FE) students who were enrolled at Merthyr Tydfil College, Glamorgan were reported to HESA rather than solely to the Lifelong Learning Wales Record (LLWR). In 2009/10 only 950 FE enrolments were registered at Merthyr Tydfil College (as part of Glamorgan University), whilst in 2011/12 the number of FE enrolments was 8,580. The new protocol affecting 2012/13 data meant that the number of these enrolments fell again to 1,850 in 2012/13.
University of Wales Institute, Cardiff changed its name to Cardiff Metropolitan University in late 2011.
In 2009/10, the University of Glamorgan changed its reporting practices for a number of their full-time postgraduate taught students that were active over two reporting years. These students were previously returned as active in their first year but dormant in their second year. For 2009/10 these students are now returned as active in both academic years, in line with HESA reporting requirements. This contributed to Glamorgan reporting an increase of 670 enrolments (around 58 per cent) to its full-time postgraduate taught courses and a subsequent rise in the number of full-time postgraduate enrolments at Welsh HEIs.
In 2008/09, Lampeter University showed a drop of 2,195 part-time other undergraduate enrolments, representing a 39 per cent decrease on 2007/08. This was, in part, due to those students being re-coded as dormant which automatically excluded them from enrolment data.
During 2009/10, Bangor University took part in a trial with an external partner in relation to a large set of their Welsh for Adults data (Further Education enrolments normally included on the HESA record). Due to the nature of the trial, some data was not available before the HESA submission deadline, this resulted in an undercount for that year. In 2011/12 Bangor University recorded a 112 per cent increase in FE enrolments since 2009/10; currently there is no reason to suggest that this is due to anything other than full reporting and increased provision.