Further Education, Work-based Learning and Community Learning in Wales, 2009/10 (provisional)

The statistics on learner numbers in post-16 education and training include data for Wales for the period August 2009 to July 2010. The latest release contains provisional statistics due to be updated in April 2011.

This Statistical First Release summarises provisional data on learners in post-16 education and training excluding those at Higher Education institutions and schools but including Further Education institutions, other Work-based Learning providers and Community Learning provision collected via the Welsh Assembly Government’s Lifelong Learning Wales Record (LLWR).

Key points from the latest release are:

• The provisional figures show a decline in learner numbers in total for FE institutions, local authority community learning and work-based learning provision between 2008/09 and 2009/10 but with variations between the individual sectors.
• There were 242,915 learners at FE Institutions, Community Learning or Work-based Learning providers during 2009/10, a reduction of 3.4 per cent on 2008/09.
• Within this fall in the total FE/WBL/CL population, learner numbers at FE institutions rose by 3.6 per cent for full-time learners but declined by 7.7 per cent for part-time learners.
• Of learning activities with known qualification levels, the proportion at level 1 fell from 33 per cent in 2006/07 to 29 per cent in 2009/10 whereas the proportion at level 3 rose from 18 per cent to 20 per cent over the three years.

Additional tables containing a greater amount of detail than the tables contained in this release are available on the StatsWales website.

Further information

StatsWales website.

Contact

Tel: 029 2092 6041
E-mail: post16ed.stats@wales.gsi.gov.uk

Next update

April 2011 (provisional - to be confirmed on the 'Due Out Soon' page)