7 A University for Herefordshire - Herefordshire Council page Home page here
The Herefordshire Local Plan Core Strategy is here
1 Preliminaries
2 Herefordshire Partnership NOVEMBER QER (( Quarterly Economic Report)) 2009
3 Herefordshire Partnership Quarterly Economic Bulletin November 2009
4 How much interest?
5 Population comparison
6 Does Herefordshire need a university?
1 Preliminaries
website Education and learning not much use
Put university into its search box and you find Retraining opportunities here but university not mentioned.
When you are diverted to HCC's other site you read about 2009 here.
You then read For more information on Higher Education please visit the youthZONE website (you can find the link to the right of this page).
No link. Put herefordshire council youthZONE website into Google with the result here.
2 Herefordshire Partnership NOVEMBER QER (( Quarterly Economic Report)) 2009
2.1
Qualified adults
Qualification level of working age population (Annual Population Survey)
The latest data from the APS shows that 29.3% of Herefordshire’s working age population were qualified to at least level 4 (equivalent to a first degree or higher) in 2008. This was similar to the proportion for England as a whole (28.7%), but greater than for the West Midlands region (24.5%). There has been a nominal increase in this percentage since 2005 (26.2%) in line with the national trend. However, due to the sample size it is not possible to say whether this is a real increase for Herefordshire as a whole .. .. page 2
2.2
Mode of study
In 2007-08, 66% of . . .enrolments were on full-time or sandwich courses. The remaining 34% were enrolled on part-time courses. Part time courses were more common amongst Herefordshire residents than in the UK as a whole, where only 16% of enrolments were on part time courses. Although there is no direct evidence, the relatively old age structure of Herefordshire residents, coupled with a low level of HE provision, seems likely to form part of the explanation for this. page 6
2.3
Level of study
In 2007-08 85% of student engagement from residents of Herefordshire was in undergraduate courses and 15% in postgraduate courses, compared 78% undergraduate and 22% postgraduate for the UK as a whole. page 6
source here
3 Herefordshire Partnership Quarterly Economic Bulletin November 2009
Development and Investment
3.1
Higher Education for Herefordshire (HE4H), an alliance of academic, business and political interests, has been unsuccessful in its bid to bring more university level education to the county. Their application to the Higher Education Council for England as part of the University Challenge scheme was rejected on the basis that Herefordshire’s population was too small to support the proposed “university centre”. HE4H has stated that it will remain committed to the scheme, but will need to look for other sources of funding if they are to realise their ambition.
page 2 here
3.2
The document states:
3.2.1
• Based on the definition of ‘usual residence’, the current (mid-2008) estimate of Herefordshire’s total population is
179,300. This estimate reflects an increase of 900 people (0.5%) between mid-2007 and mid-2008.
3.2.2
• The county’s age structure remains older than that of England and Wales as a whole, with higher proportions of the population in all age groups from 45 upwards, and lower proportions in the younger age groups.
3.2.3
• 97,600 people (54%) live in rural areas, and 76,700 of these (43% of the total) live in ‘rural village or
dispersed’ areas. Recent population growth has been more rapid in rural parts of the county.
3.2.4
• Estimates suggest that in mid-2007, 4.4% of Herefordshire’s resident population (7,800 people) is from an ethnic group other than ‘white British’. This is still very low compared to both England and the West Midlands region as a whole (16.4% and 16.9%, respectively) but reflects an increase of 77% between 2001 and 2007, compared to a growth of 2% in the county’s total population.
4 How much interest?
4.1
In order to seek readers’ views on the Quarterly Economic Bulletin (QEB), a survey was sent out in August 2009, to approximately 360 readers that include Herefordshire Council employees, Councillors, parish clerks, local businesses, community/voluntary organisations, schools, colleges and libraries. 76 questionnaires were returned ... .
page 1 76/360 = 21% and isn't good and 76/179,300 isn't worthwhile.
4.2
Topics covered in a chart on page 6 were:
- News Summary
- Rural Issues
- Unemployment & worklessness
- House prices & rental values
- Recently published research
- Earnings
- Population & Migration
- Employment
- Business
- Agriculture
- Transport
- Editorials page 6
- "The latest data from the Annual Population Survey shows that 29% of Herefordshire’s working age population were qualified to at least level 4 (equivalent to a first degree or higher) in 2008. This was similar to the proportion for England as a whole (29%), but greater than for the West Midlands region."
- "HE Participation rates for young people (aged 18 or 19) in Herefordshire (35%) were above that of the West Midlands (28%) and the UK as a whole (29%) in 2000. (25%)."
- "In 2007-08 66% of Herefordshire students’ enrolments were on full-time or sandwich HE courses; the remaining 34% were enrolled on part-time courses compared to only 16% for the UK as a whole.
Read the document here
5 Population comparison
5.1
Based on the definition of ‘usual residence’, the current (mid-2008) estimate of Herefordshire’s total population is
179,300. 3.2.1
5.2
. . . our calculation of 184,000 residents of all ages and ability now - 4.1 here
6 Does Herefordshire need a university?
184000 minus 179,300 = 2.65% growth over five years = ask the question - "Is it sufficent increase?", never mind a host of other considerations. They are dealt with on a later page.