This Statistical First Release (SFR) has been produced by the Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA), in collaboration with Department for Education and Skills (DfES) statisticians. It provides provisional estimates of the numbers of student enrolments on higher education (HE) courses at higher education institutions (HEIs) in the United Kingdom (UK), for the academic year 2001/02. Also included are provisional estimates of the numbers of HE enrolments in further education colleges (FECs) in the UK for 2000/01, the latest available year.