Minority report: female first year students’ experience of Engineering Teams

Figures & data

Table 1. Comparison between school, university and UK continuation figures over a six year period

Academic year	05/06	06/07	07/08	08/09	09/10	10/11
No. of students registered	93	75	90	114	107	127
% (no.) female new entrants	7% (6)	9% (7)	7% (6)	10% (11)	8% (8)	9% (11)
% of registered progressing to stage 2 (% rate of attrition)	83% (17%)	83% (17%)	80% (20%)	83% (17%)	93% (7%)	90% (10%)
% (no.) female students progressing to stage 2	100% (6)	57% (4)	100% (6)	73% (8)	88% (7)	100% (11)
% UK rates of students registered on engineering and technology programmes no longer in higher education in their second year (HESA)*	24%	23%	21%	17%	Not yet available	Not yet available
% rate of attrition across Newcastle University measured against benchmark (HESA)*	3.5% (4.5%)	3.5% (4.2%)	4.0% (4.5%)	3.3% (4.5%)	2.5% (3.7%)	Not yet available

^* Higher Education Statistics Agency