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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

This report looks at the further and higher education sectors, both of which are set to grow between 1999 and 2003. These two sectors include seven types of institution: sixth form colleges, tertiary colleges, further education colleges, universities, adult education institutes, privately-owned independent colleges of education and distance learning organisations. This report will focus principally on further education colleges and universities, and it will highlight mature student provision where appropriate.
There are more than 900 further education and higher education institutions. Around 220 of these fall within the higher education sector. The total number of students attending further or higher education institutions was around 6 million in the academic year 1997/1998. By the academic year 2002/2003, Key Note estimates that this figure will have reached 7.1 million.
Full-time higher education is still dominated by those aged 18 to 21. In part-time higher education, however, mature students -- those aged 21 or over -- predominate. The Department for Education and Employment's (DfEE) figures show that around 70 percent of vocational and academic courses involve part-time or evening study.
The main developments in the last 2 years have been the launch of the Dearing report into higher education and the Kennedy report into further education. The Government's response was contained in a Green Paper called `The Learning Age', which set out plans including a huge increase in further education student numbers (from around 4 million to 4.7 million by the year 2001), along with more emphasis on vocational courses and the setting up of the Quality Assurance Agency. More money is destined to go into the further education and higher education sectors over the next few years, but some of this money will come from tuition fees paid by students and their families.
The major questions facing the further education and higher education sectors are how far they will embrace new technology in delivering educational courses, and how much further will they go in making links with local communities and with business. Further education and higher education institutions all over Europe face growing competition from organisations outside the educational world.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Executive Summary

Executive Summary

Market Definition

INTRODUCTION

DEFINITIONS

Market Size

STUDENT NUMBERS

GOVERNMENT EXPENDITURE

SECTOR TRENDS

Table 1: Home and Overseas Students in Further and Higher Education (000), 1997/1998

Table 2: UK Government Expenditure on Further, Higher and Adult Education (£m), 1994/95 and 1996/1997

Table 3: Number of Institutions Providing Further and Higher Education in the UKÅ, 1994/1995 and 1997/1998

Table 4: Higher Education Qualifications Obtained (000), 1994/1995 and 1996/1997

Table 5: International Comparison of Expected Years in Higher Education of 17 Year-Olds and Drop-Out Rates ( percent), 1996

Table 6: Public Expenditure on Higher Education as a percentage of Gross Domestic Product ( percent), 1993 and 1995

Industry Background

HISTORICAL BACKGROUND

INDUSTRY STRUCTURE

INFLUENCERS ON FURTHER AND HIGHER EDUCATION

THE EUROPEAN DIMENSION

INDUSTRY BODIES

Competitor Analysis

INTRODUCTION

SELECTED LEADING PROVIDERS OF FURTHER EDUCATION

SELECTED LONG-ESTABLISHED UNIVERSITIES

SELECTED NEWER UNIVERSITIES

SELECTED OPEN COLLEGES AND DISTANCE LEARNING INSTITUTIONS

MAJOR PROVIDERS OF EDUCATION TO MATURE STUDENTS

PROFESSIONAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION

SPECIALIST COLLEGES

ADULT RESIDENTIAL COLLEGES

SOURCES OF FURTHER INFORMATION

Table 7: Selected Leading Long-Established Universities in the UK, 1999

Table 8: Selected Leading Newer Universities, 1999

Table 9: Major University Providers of Education to Mature Students, 1999

Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats (SWOT)

STRENGTHS

WEAKNESSES

OPPORTUNITIES

THREATS

Buying Behaviour

PEOPLE WORKING TOWARDS QUALIFICATIONS

LEADING SUBJECTS FOR STUDY

OVERSEAS STUDENTS

Table 10: Number of People Working Towards Qualifications by Economic Activity and AgeÅ (000), 1997

Table 11: Students in Further and Higher Education by Subject (000), 1997/98

Table 12: Full-Time Students from Overseas in UK Further and Higher Education, 1997/98

Table 13: Overseas Students in UK Further and Higher Education by Country of Origin (000), 1997/98

Outside Suppliers to the Industry

AUDIO-VISUAL EQUIPMENT

BOOKS

COMPUTER HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE

EDUCATIONAL EQUIPMENT

ELECTRONICS AND INSTRUMENTATION

STATIONERY

PHOTOCOPIERS

Current Issues

FUNDING

THE FUTURE DIRECTION OF THE MARKET

Forecasts

ENROLMENTS 1998/1999 TO 2002/2003

A MORE COMPETITIVE FUTURE FOR THE UNIVERSITIES

ENSURING QUALITY

GREATER EMPHASIS ON VOCATIONAL COURSES

Table 14: Enrolments in Further and Higher Education (000), 1998/1999-2002/2003

Appendix

THE TOP TEN UNIVERSITIES BY SUBJECT

Further Sources

ASSOCIATIONS

PERIODICALS

DIRECTORIES

GENERAL SOURCES

HBI UK INFORMATION SOURCES

GOVERNMENT PUBLICATIONS

OTHER SOURCES

Text © 1999 Key Note

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