Adult Education

(asked on 30th October 2020) - View Source

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate his Department has made of the number of people that have completed an adult education course in (a) Coventry, (b) the West Midlands and (c) England in each of the last five years.


Answered by
Gillian Keegan Portrait
Gillian Keegan
Secretary of State for Education
This question was answered on 10th November 2020

The number of adult achievements in Further Education courses in (a) Coventry, (b) the West Midlands, and (c) England from the academic years 2014/15 to 2018/19 are shown in the table below, and published at the following link: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/848365/FE_and_Skills_Part_and_Achieve_Final_201819.xlsx.

2014/15

2015/16

2016/17

2017/18

2018/19

Coventry Local Authority District

14,390

11,800

10,790

11,070

10,080

West Midlands

212,160

176,260

168,310

167,960

58,230

England6

1,983,190

1,694,520

1,578,910

1,574,420

1,467,580


Figures for the full, final 2019/20 academic year are due to be published in our next ‘Further Education and Skills’ statistical release, later this month. The exact publication date will be announced on gov.uk soon.

To note:

1) Volumes are rounded to the nearest ten.

2) The data source is the Individualised Learner Record and include full, final year data for each year.

3) In this table, full-year numbers are a count of the number of achievements at any point during the year.

4) Figures for 2018/19 are based on the geographic boundaries as of April 2019. Figures for 2014/15 to 2017/18 based on geographic boundaries as of May 2010.

5) Region and local authority district are based upon the home postcode of the learner.

6) The England row here includes learners achieving in England but where the learner’s home postcode is outside of England, and also a small number of learners where their postcode is not known.

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