GCE A-level

(asked on 10th November 2017) - View Source

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what information her Department holds on the number of A-level students who do not progress to their second year of study.


Answered by
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Nick Gibb
This question was answered on 20th November 2017

The Department will be publishing statistics on students, undertaking their 16-18 studies, who return to the same institution for a second year of study. These will be available in March 2018 for the academic year 2016/17.

The Department published ‘retention’[1] figures for the academic year 2015/16 (and will publish the 2016/17 figures in March 2018). These can be obtained from the Department’s ‘A level and other 16 to 18 results: 2015 to 2016 (revised)’ SFR[2].

The ‘retention’ figures are not synonymous with students who did, or did not, progress to their second year of study. They are the closest available information the Department has published until the number of students returning for a second year is published in March 2018.

  1. The retention measure shows the percentage of students who get to the end of the programme of study they enrolled on at a provider. Measures across A level, tech level and applied general programmes should not be compared due to differences in entry patterns.
  2. https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/a-level-and-other-16-to-18-results-2015-to-2016-revised - Open the ‘Retention measure, completion and attainment measure and tech level minimum standards: SFR05/2017’ document and then use table 20a.

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