FOI_25-129 Midwifery students enrolled
Date of response: 12 May 2025
We have now considered your request of 25 April 2025 for the following information:
For your midwifery course, please could you tell me the following:
Question 1. How many students were enrolled on your undergraduate midwifery course in the past five years? Please break this down by year: 2020/21, 2021/22, 2022/23, 2023/24 and 2024/25.
Our response:
| 2020-21 | 2021-22 | 2022-23 | 2023-24 | 2024-25 (as of the date of your request) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 77 | 71 | 48 | 57 | 57 |
Question 2. Of these enrolled student midwives, how many terminated their studies during the past five years? Please break this down by year: 2020/21, 2021/22, 2022/23, 2023/24 and 2024/25.
Our response:
| 2020-21 | 2021-22 | 2022-23 | 2023-24 | 2024-25 (as of the date of your request) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21 | 17 | 9 | 10 | 0 |
Question 3. Of these enrolled student midwives, how many took a break of one month or longer from their studies during the past five years? Please break this down by year: 2020/21, 2021/22, 2022/23, 2023/24 and 2024/25.
Our response:
| 2020-21 | 2021-22 | 2022-23 | 2023-24 | 2024-25 (as of the date of your request) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13 | 17 | 2 | 3 | 0 |
Question 4. If known, how many of these student midwives did not start practising midwifery within three months of finishing their course?
Our response:
On this occasion it is not possible to provide any of the requested information. In line with your rights under section 1(1)(a) of the Act to be informed whether information is held, we confirm that the University does not hold any recorded information for the number of student midwives who did not start practising midwifery within three months of completing their course.
Whilst the University does collect completion data 15 months post-graduation through our graduate outcomes survey, this information does not capture those specifically not employed and practising midwifery three months after finishing their course, therefore we do not hold the requested information.