Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what proportion of pupils achieved a NVQ3+ or equivalent in (a) Mansfield, (b) Nottinghamshire and (c) East Midlands in 2017.
Statistics for Mansfield constituency are not available but the number and percentage of students achieving level 3 qualifications at a local authority and regional level in 2016/17 is published online[1],[2]. The figures for students[3] obtaining at least 2 substantial level 3 qualifications[4],[5] by the end of their 16-18 study[6] are provided below:
Geography | Number of level 3 students | Achieving at least 2 substantial level 3 qualifications (%) |
Nottinghamshire local authority | 4,748 | 78.4 |
East Midlands region | 30,765 | 79.5 |
England (state-funded sector)4 | 389,784 | 83.6 |
[1] For students at the end of their 16-18 study, who achieved a level 3 qualification during their study: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/a-level-and-other-16-to-18-results-2016-to-2017-revised (Open the ‘local authority tables’ and then tab ‘9a all’. For achievement in all level 3 qualifications use columns D, E and F.
[2] https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/level-2-and-3-attainment-by-young-people-aged-19-in-2017.
[3] Covers students aged 16, 17 or 18 at the start of the 2016/17 academic year, i.e. 31 August 2016.
[4] Covers students at the end of advanced level study who were entered for at least one academic qualification equal in size to at least half (0.5) an A level or an extended project (size 0.3), or applied general or Tech level qualification during their 16-18 study.
[5] Substantial level 3 qualifications are defined as qualifications that are at least the size of an A level (180 guided learning hours per year), such as a BTEC subsidiary diploma level 3. If a qualification is equal in size to two A levels it is counted as two substantial level 3 qualifications.
[6] Covers all state-funded mainstream schools, academies, free schools, city technology colleges, state-funded special schools and FE sector colleges. Excludes pupil referral units, alternative provision, hospital schools, non-maintained special schools, other government department funded colleges, independent schools, independent special schools and independent schools approved to take pupils with special educational needs.