Assembly Learning Grants Awarded to Welsh Domiciled Students in Further Education, 2008/09

This Statistical Release presents information on the number of Assembly Learning Grants (ALGs) awarded to Welsh domiciled students in Further Education in academic year 2008/09. The latest release updates the statistics previously released on 31 March 2009.

Key points for 2008/09 from the release are:

• 6,690 students in Further Education applied for an Assembly Learning Grant as at end July 2009, an increase of 8 per cent compared with 2007/08.
• 5,250 applications were successful (79 per cent of applications), an increase of 2 per cent compared with 2007/08.
• 70 per cent of all applications and 87 per cent of successful applications were from full time students.
• £5.8 million has been paid to date to FE students in ALGs, an increase of 2 per cent compared with 2007/08.

Note: With regard to Table 2, an ‘r’ denotes a figure that has been revised since the previous release (October 2008), as a result of new information being made available, to ensure comparability with latest data.

Further information can be found on the StatsWales website.

Contact

Tel: 029 2082 3895
E-mail: post16ed.stats@wales.gsi.gov.uk

Next update

October 2010 (provisional - to be confirmed on the Due Out Soon page)