BTEC Qualifications
(asked on 18th September 2023) - View Source
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many and what proportion of students completed T-Level qualifications in the (a) 2021-22 and (b) 2022-23 academic year and (i) had special educational needs and (ii) came from a BAME background.
T Levels
In the 2022/23 and 2021/22 academic years, 3,448 and 991 learners completed T Levels respectively.
The breakdown by the characteristics requested is provided below:
| 2022-23 Completers | 2021-22 Completers | ||
SEN Status | Students who completed | Proportion | Students who completed | Proportion |
Education, Health and Care Plan | 38 | 1% | 11 | 1% |
SEN Support | 310 | 9% | 82 | 8% |
No Special Educational Need | 2,896 | 84% | 849 | 86% |
Unknown | 204 | 6% | 49 | 5% |
| 2022-23 Completers | 2021-22 Completers | ||
Ethnicity | Students who completed | Proportion | Students who completed | Proportion |
Asian or Asian British | 355 | 10% | 70 | 7% |
Black, Black British, Caribbean or African | 135 | 4% | 32 | 3% |
Mixed or multiple ethnic groups | 105 | 3% | 25 | 3% |
White | 2,568 | 74% | 781 | 79% |
Other ethnic group | 34 | 1% | 17 | 2% |
Unknown | 251 | 7% | 66 | 7% |
Note 1: Department for Education (DfE) analysis of Manage T Level Service results series linked to the Young Persons Matched Administrative Dataset (YPMAD) to obtain student characteristics. Some individuals appearing in the Manage T Level Service results data may not appear in the YPMAD, meaning that some students are missing characteristics data.
Note 2: The published data on T Level results can be accessed here: https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/provisional-t-level-results
The number of exam entries by 16- to 18-year-olds, taking an applied general or tech level qualifications broken down by special educational needs and ethnicity in 2021/22 can be seen at: https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/data-tables/permalink/4dc60e85-d5da-4a96-5a38-08dbb9ac4483. The 2022/23 data will be published in November 2023. Applied general and tech level qualifications are level 3 vocational and technical qualifications that include BTECs, which are a brand of qualifications awarded by Pearson, as well as similar qualifications awarded by other awarding bodies.