Written Evidence Oct. 16 2024
Inquiry: Skills for the future: apprenticeships and trainingFound: and Skills (FES): study programmes for 18–19-year-olds, adult programmes, apprenticeships, and provision
Written Evidence Oct. 16 2024
Inquiry: Skills for the future: apprenticeships and trainingFound: sectors: universities, further education, adult education and prison education.
Sep. 18 2024
Source Page: ESFA Update: 18 September 2024Found: Correspondence ESFA Update: 18 September 2024 Latest information and actions from the Education
Written Evidence Oct. 16 2024
Inquiry: Skills for the future: apprenticeships and trainingFound: Coupled with this, there has, ov er the past decade, been a large decline in the number of adult
Asked by: Rachael Maskell (Labour (Co-op) - York Central)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to support adults to reach GCSE level English and Maths.
Answered by Robert Halfon
This government recognises the importance of English and mathematics skills, both in work and everyday life. Securing good levels of literacy and numeracy increases individual productivity, improves earnings and employment opportunities, supports economic growth and breaks cycles of intergenerational economic and social disadvantage.
Consequently, the department is continuing to support participation in English and mathematics provision through ‘essential skills entitlements’ which provide the opportunity of free study for adults who do not have essential literacy and numeracy skills up to and including Level 2.
This allows learners who have not previously attained a GCSE grade 4 or higher to undertake a range of courses fully-funded through the Adult Education Budget (AEB) including GCSEs, Functional Skills and other relevant qualifications from entry level to Level 2.
The department also supports training for adults in community settings through the AEB. Prioritised for disadvantaged learners, community learning can provide a 'stepping stone' for those adults who are not ready for formal accredited learning, or who would benefit from learning in a more informal way.
In addition, all apprentices, including adults, are funded to achieve up to a Level 2 in English and mathematics by the end of their apprenticeship. The department has increased the apprenticeship funding rate for English and mathematics by 54% from January to support apprentices to gain these vital skills, from £471 to £724.
The department has also launched the Multiply programme to improve adult numeracy. This is funded through the UK Shared Prosperity Fund, which is the government’s flagship fund for supporting people and places across the UK. Up to £270 million is directly available for local areas in England to deliver innovative interventions to improve adult numeracy. Delivery is now well underway. Multiply provision is available across the country, with over 67,000 course starts in England since the programme began to the end of August 2023.
Oct. 15 2024
Source Page: FE Commissioner intervention: Redcar and Cleveland Borough Council 2024Found: Sampson, I am writing following the intervention assessment of Redcar and Cleveland Borough Council (Adult
Oct. 02 2024
Source Page: Palliative Care Strategy: Service Mapping Survey: Additional PaperFound: Specialist palliative care has a specific role in providing support, advice, and education to the rest
Oct. 23 2024
Source Page: Funding allocations to training providers: 2024 to 2025Found: providers: 2024 to 2025 Funding values for colleges, training organisations and employers with an adult
Found: Young carers in education
Asked by: Gen Kitchen (Labour - Wellingborough and Rushden)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the average staff to student ratio was in secondary schools (a) nationally and (b) in Wellingborough constituency in (i) 2019, (ii) 2020, (iii) 2021 and (iv) 2022.
Answered by Damian Hinds - Shadow Secretary of State for Education
Information on the school workforce, including the pupil to adult and pupil to teacher ratios at national, regional, local authority and individual school level, is published in the ‘School Workforce in England’ statistical publication here: https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/school-workforce-in-england.
As of November 2022, which is the latest data available, there were record numbers of full-time equivalent (FTE) teachers in state-funded schools in England at over 468,000. This is an increase of 27,000, equivalent to 6%, since 2010. This makes the highest number of FTE teachers since the School Workforce Census began.
The table below provides the pupil to adult ratio and the pupil to teacher ratio for state-funded secondary schools in Wellingborough constituency and England for the 2019/20 to 2022/23 academic years.
Pupil to adult and pupil to teacher ratios for state-funded secondary schools in Wellingborough constituency and England, by year
2019/20 and 2022/231
| Wellingborough constituency2 | England | ||
Pupil to adult ratio3, 5 | Pupil to teacher ratio4, 5 | Pupil to adult ratio3, 5 | Pupil to teacher ratio4, 5 | |
2019/20 | 11.0 | 17.2 | 11.9 | 16.6 |
2020/212 | 11.1 | 16.9 | 11.9 | 16.6 |
2021/22 | 11.0 | 17.0 | 11.9 | 16.7 |
2022/23 | 10.6 | 17.5 | 12.0 | 16.8 |
Source: School Workforce Census.
1. Workforce data as at November and pupil data as at the following January. For instance, 2019/20 relates to November 2019 workforce and January 2020 pupils.
2. There are 6 secondary schools in Wellingborough constituency.
3. Pupil to adult ratio includes teachers and support staff (excluding auxiliary staff).
4. Pupil to teacher ratio includes all teachers.
5. The ratios are calculated using pupil numbers taken from the publication, Schools, Pupils and their Characteristics, available at: https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/school-pupils-and-their-characteristics.