National Vocational Qualifications: East Midlands

(asked on 1st June 2018) - View Source

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.


Answered by
Anne Milton Portrait
Anne Milton
This question was answered on 11th June 2018

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.

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