Question reference: S5W-27395
- Asked by: Mark McDonald, MSP for Aberdeen Donside, Independent
- Date lodged: 11 February 2020
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Current status: Answered by Richard Lochhead on 11 March 2020
Question
To ask the Scottish Government what percentage of students enrolled in Medicine courses at universities were required to repeat their first year of study in each of the last five years.
Answer
The following table shows the percentage of students who were on full-time first degree pre-clinical medicine courses at Scottish Universities and reported as being in the first year of programme of study* and the second year of study* in the HESA statistics.
Proportion of full-time first degree pre-clinical students in their first year of programme and second year of study
2014-15 | 2015-16 | 2016-14 | 2017-18 | 2018-19 |
2.4% | 3.4% | 5.0% | 5.2% | 5.5% |
Source: HESA student data, SG analysis
* St Andrews has a different course structure than other Scottish HEIs and as such, a modification has been made to include these students in a similar way.