Further Education, Work-based Learning and Community Learning, 2010/11 (provisional)

The statistics on learner numbers in post-16 education and training include data for Wales for the period August 2010 to July 2011.  The latest release contains provisional statistics due to be updated in March 2012.

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 Government’s Lifelong Learning Wales Record (LLWR).

Key points from the latest release are:

• The provisional figures show a small decline in learner numbers in total for FE institutions, local authority community learning and work-based learning provision between 2009/10 and 2010/11 but with variations between the individual sectors.
• There were 239,690 learners at FE Institutions, Community Learning or Work-based Learning providers during 2010/11, a reduction of 0.9 per cent on 2009/10.
• Within this fall in the total FE/WBL/CL population, learner numbers at FE institutions rose by 3.2 per cent for full-time learners but declined by 1.0 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 2010/11 whereas the proportion at level 3 rose from 18 per cent to 21 per cent over the four 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

March 2012 (provisional - to be confirmed on the Due Out Soon page)