Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what proportion of students who completed further education in (a) Pendle, (b) Lancashire and (c) the North West went on to (i) university, (ii) a full-time job and (iii) an apprenticeship in each of the last five years.

Destination measures were produced for students who entered an A level or other Level 3 qualification in June 2014 for the 2010/11 cohort, showing their destinations in 2011/12. This was the first time that the data had been compiled separately for Further Education (FE) students – those in FE Colleges, Sixth Form Colleges and FE providers – and those in school sixth forms

The table below shows data for Pendle, Lancashire and the North West for FE students (students in FE Colleges, Sixth Form Colleges and FE providers). Separate figures for full-time employment are not available.

The published tables, which include comparable data for school sixth forms, are published online at:

www.gov.uk/government/statistics/destinations-of-key-stage-4-and-key-stage-5-pupils-2011-to-2012

The figures for 2011/12 are:

Source: National pupil database

Notes:

1. All students who entered an A Level or other Level 3 qualification. This includes all level 3 qualifications i.e. general or applied A levels, AS examinations or other level 3 qualifications. These students are mostly academic age 17. There are also a number of students of academic age 16 and 18 in the cohort.
2. Sustained participation for the first two terms, October to March.
3. Number of students rounded to the nearest 10.
4. Further Education includes students from Further Education Colleges, Sixth Form Colleges and other Further Education providers; it excludes school sixth forms.
5. Higher Education includes students at Higher Education institutions or undertaking Higher Education provision at a Further Education college.
6. This includes all young people who were recorded as having been in employment and/or training for at least 5 months for the sustained period, October to March.
7. Other sustained destinations include school sixth forms, sixth form colleges, further education colleges, other further education providers, independent schools and specialist providers.
8. ‘Activity not captured in data' means the young person was not found in an education, employment or a recorded NEET destination. Possible reasons for this could be that the young person was attending an independent college or school that was not captured in the awarding body data, a Scottish or Welsh college or school, they have left the country, are in custody or their whereabouts are not known.