Further Education, Work-based Learning and Community Learning in Wales, 2009/10 and 2010/11 (early figures)

The statistics on learner numbers in post-16 education and training include data for Wales for the period August 2009 to July 2010 and early figures for December 2010.  The latest release updates the provisional statistics released on 25 November 2010.

This Statistical First Release summarises final 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:

• There were 241,805 learners at FE Institutions, Community Learning or Work-based Learning providers during 2009/10, a reduction of 3.9 per cent on 2008/09.
• Full-time learner numbers at FE institutions rose by 1.2 per cent, part-time numbers at FEIs declined by 7.8 per cent, total local authority community learning fell by 8.9 per cent but total work-based learner numbers rose by 1.9 per cent for the full year.
• 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.
• The Early Figures for numbers of learning programmes in the week of 1 December 2010 show a small decrease in both full-time numbers and in part-time numbers relative to December 2009 but there was a small increase in work-based learning programmes.

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

Further information

StatsWales website.

Contact

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

Next update

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