Further Education, Work-based Learning and Community Learning, 2011/12 (provisional)

The statistics on learner numbers in post-16 education and training include data for Wales for the period August 2011 to July 2012.  The latest release contains provisional statistics due to be updated in March 2013.

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:

• There were 226,575 learners at FE Institutions, Community Learning or Work-based Learning providers during 2011/12, a reduction of 5.7 per cent on 2010/11.
• Full-time learner numbers at FE were almost unchanged but part-time numbers at FEIs declined by 5.2 per cent, total local authority community learning fell by 10 per cent and total work-based learner numbers fell by 6.4 per cent for the full year.
• Of learning activities with known qualification levels, between 2006/07 and 2011/12 the proportion at level 3 rose from 18 per cent to 20 per cent, entry level rose from 10 per cent to 13 per cent but level 1 fell from 33 per cent to 29 per cent.

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 2082 5139
E-mail: post16ed.stats@wales.gsi.gov.uk

Next update

March 2013 (provisional - to be confirmed on the Due Out Soon page)