Written question WQ99672
- Asked by
- Natasha AsgharConservative
- To be answered by
- Cabinet Minister for Health and Care
- Tabled
- Due
- Answered
- Time to answer
- 8 days
Question
Will the Cabinet Minister provide, for each Welsh university offering nursing degree courses, a breakdown of enrolled students showing how many are ordinarily resident in Wales, elsewhere in the UK, and overseas?
Answer
Answered by Deputy Minister for Skills and Tertiary Education (Cefin Campbell)
The most recently available data for higher education enrolments is taken from the HESA Student record for the 2024/25 academic year.
Table 1: Nursing and midwifery enrolments at Welsh higher education providers by country of permanent address, 2024/25
Wales
Rest of the UK (including Guernsey, Jersey, the Isle of Man, and UK unknown)
Non-UK
Unknown
Aberystwyth University
170
30
30
0
Bangor University
895
145
55
5
Cardiff University
955
370
80
0
Swansea University
1,085
115
115
0
The Open University (Welsh national centre)
350
0
0
0
University of South Wales
2,125
85
220
50
Wrexham University
710
210
125
0
Total
6,290
955
630
55
Source: HESA Student record via Welsh government
The data is based on the number of enrolments at a higher education provider that have been identified as ‘Nursing and midwifery’ subjects within the common aggregated hierarchy (CAH) subject groupings. The ‘Nursing and midwifery’ subject grouping includes the following subjects:
• Nursing (non-specific)