Other statistics and research
Other statistics published alongside the further education and skills statistics publications.
This section holds other statistics published alongside the further education and skills statistics publications. These are not national statistics, but complement the information in the main release.
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24+ Advanced Learning Loans
Apprenticeships
For recent data on apprenticeship starts by employer size, sector and region please see the Apprenticeships in England by industry characteristics statistics publication.
Achievement rates
As part of the methodological changes outlined to qualification achievement rates (QARs) in the January 2017 further education and skills SFR, the following table have been produced to help the user understand the underlying variation below the headline figures. Apprenticeship achievement rates for the academic years 2013 to 2014, 2014 to 2015, and 2015 to 2016 have been broken down by sector subject area using both previous and current methodologies.
English and maths
FE trends
FE trends provides an overview of adult (19+) government-funded further education and all age apprenticeships in England. It looks to provide trends between 2008/09 and 2013/14 and to give an overview of FE provision, characteristics of learners and outcomes over time
International comparisons supplementary tables
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) produces an annual publication, Education at a Glance, providing a variety of comparisons between OECD countries. The table provided here contains a summary of the relative ranking in education attainment of the 25-64 year old population in OECD countries in 2012.
The OECD statistics use the International Standard Classification of Education. Within this, “at least upper secondary education” is equivalent to holding qualifications at Level 2 or above in the UK, and “tertiary education” is equivalent to holding qualifications at Level 4 or above in the UK.
Offender learning
STEM
This research is the result of a Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) funded, sector led project to gather and analyse data to inform the contribution that further education makes to STEM in England.
This project was led by The Royal Academy of Engineering, and governance of the project was specifically designed to ensure that those with an interest in STEM were actively engaged and involved in directing and prioritising outputs.
The November 2012 report builds on the FE and Skills STEM Data report published in July 2011 (below). It provides further analysis and interpretation of the existing data in a highly graphical format. It uses the same classified list of S,T, E and M qualifications as the 2011 report compiled through an analysis of the Register of Regulated Qualifications and the Learning Aim Database, updated with the most recent completions and achievements data taken from the Individualised Learner Record and the National Pupil Database.
Train to gain
Traineeships
Unemployed learners
Updates to this page
Published 5 March 2014Last updated 25 October 2018 + show all updates
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Changed structure of headings and uploaded tables previously published under other statistical data sets. Removed tables from the attachments list that will be uploaded to other statistical data sets in the FE data library.
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Added new 19+ Advanced Learner Loans section, including new tables containing 19+ Advanced Learner Loans information for quarter 2 2017/18. Also added a Traineeship demographic table to quarter 2017/18 and Apprenticeship duration table covering 2016 to 2017 and 2017 to 2018. Moved the 'Apprenticeships by age and planned length of stay: starts 2008/09 to 2016/17' file to the Apprenticeship duration section of the 'FE data library: apprenticeships' collection.
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Update to the traineeship starts demographic tool for 2015 to 2016 and 2016 to 2017 data.
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Ad hoc publication of apprenticeship starts from 2009/10 to 2015/16 by ethnicity and by learning difficulty or disability.
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Tables providing sector subject area breakdown for the qualification achievement rates released as part of the update to the January 2017 further education and skills statistical first release as a result of methodology changes.
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New file titled Offender Learning participation assessments in English and Maths (2015/16) uploaded on 2 December 2016.
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New file titled Offender learning participation (aims) by awarding body, aim title and level (2015/16) uploaded on 28 November 2016.
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New version of Apprenticeship by planned length of stay: starts 2008/09 to 2015/2016
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Minor editorial change to page on 27 September 2016.
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New file titled Size and industry of businesses with apprentices uploaded on 23 September 2016.
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New version of Traineeships - starts by core element and age (2013/14 to 2014/15) uploaded on 20 September 2016.
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New file titled Traineeship progressions by self-reported learner destination and age 2014 to 2015 uploaded on 24 August 2016.
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New file titled Offender Learning breakdown by disability and learning difficulty 2011/12 to 2014/15 uploaded on 18 April 2015.
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New filed Traineeships - starts by Equality and Diversity (2013/14 to 2014/15) uploaded on 1 March 2016.
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New file English and maths estimated funding 2013 to 2014 uploaded on 26 February 2016.
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New file titled Traineeships - starts by Local Authority and Local Enterprise Partnership (2013/14 to 2014/15) uploaded on 10 February 2016.
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New file uploaded on 18 November 2015 titled Apprenticeships by planned length of stay: starts 2008/09 to 2014/15.
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New file Estimate of the Average Length of Apprenticeships (2010/11 to 2013/14) uploaded on 01 October 2015.
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new file entitled Traineeships - starts by core element and age (2013/14 to 2014/15) uploaded on 21 July 2015.
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New document added: Traineeships - completions and progressions (2014/15) - March 2015
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New file entitled Traineeships Completions and Progressions January 2015 uploaded on 29 January 2015.
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Traineeships - Select Committee Evidence January 2015 uploaded 14 January 2015.
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New file entitled FE trends data uploaded on 17 December 2014.
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New file entitled FE trends uploaded on 10 December 2014.
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New file entitled Apprenticeship Starts by Planned Length of Stay (2008/09 to 2013/14) uploaded 1 December 2014.
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Reordering of sections on the page.
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New tables uploaded
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