APPENDIX 13
Memorandum submitted by the Department
for Education & Skills
DTI SELECT COMMITTEE—MANUFACTURING
SKILL SHORTAGES
1. CAREERS, INFORMATION,
ADVICE AND
GUIDANCE—MARK
HUNTER
Young People's Information, Advice and Guidance
(IAG)
The Green Paper Youth Matters published
in July 2005, proposed that by April 2008, responsibility for
commissioning Information Advice and Guidance (IAG) and the funding
that goes with it will be devolved from the Connexions service
to local authorities. This will give local authorities overall
accountability for the quality of young people's information,
advice and guidance within their areas. Our ultimate aim is the
provision of more efficient, more cost effective services which
will ensure even better outcomes for young people.
Youth Matters also articulated the Government's
view that collaborative arrangements would be the best way to
deliver effective, independent IAG. We are looking to Local Authorities
to lead a genuinely collaborative approach to new arrangements
for delivering IAG that meets the needs of young people in the
area. Schools, colleges and training providers will increasingly
be working together with local authorities and other local agencies
to deliver beyond anything they could acting alone.
From April 2008 the new IAG standards of quality
and impartiality will also apply—as they will to all organisations
delivering IAG services funded by the Connexions grant. Draft
standards were published for consultation in December 2006. Included
in the standards will be the need for providers to ensure young
people are made aware of skill shortages and the labour market
opportunities that are available as a consequence. The standards
will also ensure that effective linkages are in place locally
between the IAG provision for young people and for adults. The
final version will be published in May 2007, and the standards
will be implemented in April 2008 in line with the new IAG arrangements.
The new arrangements will not affect the statutory
duty on all maintained schools to provide a planned careers education
programme in the curriculum for all pupils in years 7-11. Good
quality careers education and IAG will ensure that young people
are aware of all options and make sound decisions on the basis
of the information and advice received.
The document Challenging Gender Barriers
produced on behalf of DfES by the National Association of Connexions
Partnerships (NACP), working closely with the Equal Opportunities
Commission (EOC), in response to the EOC's General Formal Investigation
into Occupational Segregation describes some of the work done
by Connexions Partnerships to support young people in challenging
stereotypes and achieving their goals. It provides a number of
case studies of effective practice in tackling gender stereotyping
and guidance on improving practice. The document is available
to careers practitioners through appropriate websites.
Provision of high quality impartial choice and
occupational information to young people
The Department's main delivery mechanism for
occupational information to young people is the jobs4u careers
database which can be accessed at www.connexions-direct.com/jobs4u.
The searchable database holds information on over 800 jobs and
includes case studies. The database includes over 50 job titles
in the manufacturing and production job family, over 40 titles
in the "science, mathematics and statistics" job family;
related jobs are included within other job families. Each job
article also includes a list of related jobs and links to relevant
websites. Jobs4u is one of the most visited areas of the Connexions
Direct website.
Additionally, "Choices"
Publications, setting out the options available to young people
are produced, which include:
— Which Way Now?—a
workbook designed to help Year 9 students with their options choices.
Take up in 2005/06 was over 90% of the Cohort.
— It's Your Choice—similar
to Which Way Now? but aimed at Year 11 pupils, helping them to
make decisions relating to their post 16 phase of learning. Take
up in 2005-06 was over 95% of the Cohort.
— Parents & Carers—parents
and carers have been identified as a major influencer of young
people. We produce the Guide for Parents and Carers of Year
9 students, first produced in 2003-04 and updated annually,
to help parents and carers to understand the education system
better—to help their own children make good decisions at
key stages 3 and 4. The leaflet is aimed at parents and carers
of Year 9 pupils, but written so as to be of continued use to
them right up to when their child reaches adulthood.
All three publications are updated annually
and are available to schools from the autumn term. Interactive
versions are available through the Connexions Direct website.
Adult Information, Advice and Guidance (IAG)
Under the current arrangements, every adult
in England can access a free, information and advice service delivered
by the Learning and Skills Council (LSC) comprising the national
learndirect telephone and on-line advice service and local
nextstep information and advice services. . The more resource
intensive advice services are targeted primarily on those who
do not have a first, full level 2 qualification, since they are
more likely to lack the skills needed for sustainable employment
and further learning, and on those aged 50 or over or with learning
difficulties or disabilities . Adults seeking qualifications at
level 3 or returning to the labour market can access a new telephone
guidance service operated by learndirect. In 2006-07 we
expect the overall service to handle some 8.5 million requests
for information, provide 650,000 face to face and telephone advice
sessions and deliver in-depth personal guidance to over 70,000
adults. In addition, adults participating in any LSC funded learning
can access information and advice services through their learning
provider.
The recent report of the Leitch Review of Skills
recommended for England the establishment of a new universal adult
careers service, bringing together the current separate sources
of advice and working closely with Jobcentre Plus, to enable people
to make informed choices about improving their skills and encourage
progression in their learning, work and careers. At the heart
of this integrated service would be a free Skills Health Check
to help people identify their skills need and strengths.
We have already welcomed the Leitch Review and
its analysis of the growing importance of skills in a modern economy.
The recommendation on careers advice for adults aligns closely
with the thinking emerging from our own IAG review. We are now
working with partners—particularly the Department for Work
and Pensions, the LSC and learndirect—to work through
the detail of what the new service should look like and how we
could get there. We will need to consider the resource implications
of the new service in the context of the Comprehensive Spending
Review, before developing implementation plan across Government.
2. UCAS FIGURES
FOR APPLICATIONS
TO HIGHER
EDUCATION—PETER
LUFF
There was good news in the most recent figures
released by UCAS, where we saw large increases in applications
to study a wide range of STEM subjects. This included a rise of
12% in physics applications, 11% in chemistry, 6% in biology and
10% in maths. Most of the engineering subjects also did well.
APPLICATIONS FOR FULL-TIME FIRST DEGREE COURSES
FOR AUTUMN 2007 ENTRY 15 JANUARY
|
| Selected subjects: | Number of
applications
| Percentage change
compared to 2006
|
|
| Computer Science | 40,656
| +0.6% |
| Mathematics | 33,790
| +10.0% |
| Biology | 23,367
| +6.0% |
| Chemistry | 20,786
| +11.3% |
| Physics | 19,140
| +12.2% |
| Mechanical Engineering | 22,835
| +9.8% |
| Civil Engineering | 18,605
| +13.0% |
| Electronic and Electrical Engineering | 16,697
| +0.2% |
| Aerospace Engineering | 9,572
| +3.0% |
| General Engineering | 8,238
| +8.0% |
| Chemical, Process and Energy Engineering |
7,378 | +16.8%
|
| Production and Manufacturing Engineering |
3,459 | -8.1%
|
| Combinations within Engineering | 2,484
| +0.1% |
| Total applications (all subjects) | 1,966,476
| +6.8% |
|
| Source: Universities and Colleges Admissions Service (UCAS) Press Release of 14 February 2007. Each student can submit up to six applications.
|
Full digest of applications is available as an excel document
appended to this paper.
3. ENGLISH FOR
SPEAKERS OF
OTHER LANGUAGES
(ESOL)—ROB MARRIS
ESOL provision is funded by the Government with the intention
of addressing the skills needs of those who may need to develop
their English in order to support employability and social integration.
The primary focus for funding is those people who are in settled
communities.
Since 2001, funding and demand for ESOL have tripled. 1.9m
learners took up ESOL between 2001 and July 2006. This has put
pressure on the adult learning budget and the Government has reviewed
ESOL spending and announced changes to take effect from August
2007.
These changes include:
— The withdrawal of eligibility from asylum
seekers to access any FE at the Government's expense.
— The withdrawal of automatic fee remission
from ESOL course. Currently all learners have free ESOL, but in
the future, this will only apply to those on income related benefits.
Others will make a contribution to the cost of learning equivalent
in 2007-08 to 37.5% of the course fee.
A Race Equality Impact Assessment has been carried out to
assess the impact of implementation of the changes. A report will
be published in March. As a result of the feedback from Race Equality
Impact Assessment, we are considering some modifications to the
proposed funding changes which will offer additional support to
vulnerable groups of learners and we will take into account, with
the LSC, the themes from the REIA which were:
— We need to do more to assist asylum seekers who
are legally in the UK and whose claims are not resolved within
the target period through no fault of their own or who remain
in UK due to circumstances beyond their control;
— We need to provide more support for spouses
who do not have access to funding or to family benefit documentation
to access full fee remission; and
— We need to provide more help for workers
on very low wages and not in receipt of Working Tax Credit.
Bill Rammell spoke at an event organised by the National
Institute of Adult Continuing Education on the 7 March, and also
during the ESOL adjournment debate in the House of Commons on
the 14 March, about the new measures to provide additional support
for these groups. He said that he is minded to consider the following:
— Re-instating eligibility for those asylum
seekers who are in the UK legally and whose claims are not resolved
within six months;
— Re-instating eligibility for those asylum
seekers who are unable to return or be returned to their country
of origin for circumstances beyond their control and who are eligible
for Section 4 support;
— Prioritising funding at local level through
the Learning and Skills Council's Learner Hardship Support Fund
towards support for spouses and individuals who may not have access
to their household benefit documentation or their own funds;
— Agreeing with the Learning and Skills Council
an approach to evidencing low pay for fee remission purposes which
enables flexible use of a raft of evidence, including wider benefits
and other evidence; and
— Ensuring that asylum seekers who join waiting
lists at 18 or below, but who cannot actually access provision
before their 19th birthday, are able to take an ESOL course at
age 19.
In addition to these specific proposals, we are also committed
to working with Ministerial colleagues in other Government Departments
including the Home Office, department for Communities and Local
Government and Department for Work and Pensions to secure a more
coherent approach to ESOL across Government. And we are also committed
to taking forward the dialogue that we must have with social partners
about securing employer contributions to the cost of learning.
New ESOL for Work qualifications will also help in this respect,
providing cheaper, more work-focussed programs.
We have and will continue to act responsibly in reviewing
the way in which taxpayers' money is being spent to ensure it
meets priorities. Not all learners need the same level of public
support
4. GCSE SCIENCE—JULIE
KIRKBRIDE
The Committee asked how many young people take GCSE in physics,
chemistry and biology and how many schools offer it. At the end
of Key Stage 4 last year:
— 92% of the cohort took one or more science GCSEs
(592,900 young people);
— 69% of pupils took double science GCSE (443,000);
— 11% took single science (71,300);
— 8% took physics (48,800);
— 8% took chemistry (49,200)
— 8% took biology (51,800); and
— 1% took other sciences eg astronomy, geology
(3,300).
The following table shows school GCSE science entries in
2006. "Separate science" in this context means the three
separate sciences of physics, chemistry and biology (ie triple
science).
In 2006 37% of schools entered pupils for separate science
GCSEs compared to 33% in 2005. This pattern is also observed when
looking at just the maintained sector. In 2006 31% of schools
had pupils entered for separate science GCSEs compared to 27%
in 2005.
The Department is currently undertaking a procurement exercise
to appoint an organisation to deliver the Government's commitments
to make triple science more widely available.
|
| School type* | Schools with no
entries for separate
science
| Schools with entries
for separate science
only
| Schools with entries
for both separate and
double science
| Total |
|
| Independent** | 207
| 102 | 306
| 615 |
| % | 34 |
17 | 50
| |
| Grammar | 46
| 11 | 107
| 164 |
| % | 28 |
7 | 65
| |
| Science | 99
| 1 | 134
| 234 |
| % | 42 |
0 | 57
| |
| Maths & Computing | 129
| 0 | 58
| 187 |
| % | 69 |
0 | 31
| |
| Technology | 348
| 6 | 197
| 551 |
| % | 63 |
1 | 36
| |
Maintained mainstream
with sixth form
| 794 | 6
| 254 | 1,054
|
| % | 75 |
1 | 24
| |
Maintained mainstream
(no sixth form)
| 750 | 5
| 180 | 935
|
| % | 80 |
1 | 19
| |
| Total (excl independent) | 2,166
| 29 | 930
| 3,125 |
| % | 69 |
1 | 30
| |
| Total | 2,373
| 131 | 1,236
| 3,740 |
| % | 63 |
4 | 33
| |
|
| * schools are only included in the first category that applies
|
| ** only independent schools with more than 20 pupils at the end of KS4 and one or more pupils gaining 5+A*-G (used as a proxy for offering GCSEs)
|
5. SECTOR SKILLS
COUNCILS (SSCS)—ROGER
BERRY
The first Sector Skills Councils (SSCs) were licensed in
April 2002 and the last one was licensed in January 2006. The
25 SSCs are therefore, at different stages of maturity and development
as organisations.
SSCs can be classified into those primarily covering the
private sector, and those covering employment in the public sector.
For those SSCs classified as private sector they receive on average
85% of their total funding from the public sources. A further
15% comes from employer and other contributions.
SSCs serving the private sector receive from the public purse
on average aproximately £3.4 million per annum. On average
a further £0.6 million is received from employer and other
contributions.
Those SSCs covering public sector employment are wholly funded
fron public funds. In addition to the funding they receive from
the Sector Skills Development Agency of approximately £1.4
million per annum, they receive other additional funding from
government departments or agencies.
6. RETURNS TO
FIRMS FROM
INVESTING IN
TRAINING, BY
SIZE OF
FIRM—ROB
MARRIS
Employer provision of training
The 2005 National Employer Skills Survey provides data on
the incidence of any training in the last 12 months by employer
size—see Table 1.
Table 1
PROPORTION OF EMPLOYERS IN ENGLAND PROVIDING SOME TRAINING
IN LAST 12 MONTHS, BY SIZE
|
| Employer size | Trained off-the-
job only (%)
| Trained on-the-
job only (%)
| Trained on- and off-the-job (%)
| Did not train (%) |
|
| 2-4 employees | 14
| 18 | 19
| 50 |
| 5-24 | 14 |
22 | 42
| 22 |
| 25-99 | 10
| 14 | 68
| 7 |
| 100-199 | 7
| 10 | 76
| 6 |
| 200-499 | 7
| 11 | 77
| 6 |
| 500+ | 7
| 6 | 78
| 9 |
|
| Source: National Employer Skills Survey 2005 (Learning & Skills Council, 2006).
|
It is only the smallest employers where a majority did not
provide some training to at least some of the workforce. Over
90% of employers with 25 or more employees provided some training.
Also, where small employers do provide training, they are more
likely than larger employers to provide training to most or all
of their workforce—see Table 2.
Table 2
STAFF TRAINED IN THE LAST 12 MONTHS AS A PROPORTION OF
THE WORKFORCE, BY EMPLOYER SIZE
|
| Employer size | Trained less than 25%
of the workforce
| Trained 25-49%
of the workforce
| Trained 50-89%
of the workforce
| Trained 90%+ of
the workforce
|
|
| 2-4 employees | -
| 16% | 36%
| 47% |
| 5-24 | 13%
| 19% | 26%
| 42% |
| 25-99 | 18%
| 14% | 23%
| 45% |
| 100-199 | 17%
| 14% | 28%
| 42% |
| 200-499 | 18%
| 13% | 29%
| 40% |
| 500+ | 18%
| 16% | 28%
| 38% |
|
| Source: National Employer Skills Survey 2005.
|
Employer self-assessment of training outcomes
Cosh, Hughes et al (DfES, 2003) surveyed 2500 firms
in England. Employers were asked whether the training they had
carried out in the last three years had increased their business
performance in terms of turnover, employment, labour productivity,
and pre-tax profit margin—see Table 3:
Table 3
PROPORTION OF FIRMS IDENTIFYING BENEFITS OF TRAINING
|
| Employer size (employees)
| Training has increased performance (%)
|
| Turnover
| Employment | Labour
productivity
| Pre-tax profit
margin
|
|
| 5-9 | 47 |
28 | 56
| 42 |
| 19-99 | 55
| 35 | 66
| 49 |
| 100-199 | 54
| 40 | 75
| 51 |
| 200-499 | 58
| 44 | 78
| 59 |
| 500-999 | 58
| 38 | 82
| 55 |
| >1,000 | 61
| 43 | 78
| 63 |
| Total | 55
| 37 | 71
| 51 |
|
In general, larger firms are more likely to identify productivity,
profit and turnover benefits.
Measured outcomes
The same study also measured training inputs and business
performance (controlling as far as possible for influences other
than training) and found:
— Employment growth and turnover are statistically
significantly positively affected by training spend per firm,
across all firm sizes.
— Training spend per firm also has a positive impact
on change in the profit margin and that impact is greater for
smaller firms.
— In an earlier study (Cosh, Duncan and Hughes,
DfEE, 1998) it was found that, controlling for other factors,
training improved the prospects for business survival of small
firms (10-20 employees).
7. LEVEL 3 TRIALS
WITHIN TRAIN
TO GAIN—JULIE
KIRKBRIDE
Train to Gain, rolled out nationally in August 2006. It helps
businesses access the training they need to succeed. The service
offers employers impartial advice via a skills broker and easy
access to quality training, matching training needs with suitable
training providers and ensuring that training is delivered in
a way that meets employers' needs. The service is integrated with
the Businesslink generalist broker (IDB) service. Employers can
access some fully subsidised (first full level 2 and basic skills)
training and some beyond that
Key features of Train to Gain are:
— Fully subsidised training, delivered at a time
and place to suit the employer for their employees with basic
skills needs or who lack a first full Level 2 qualification;
— Support for progression to Level 3 and beyond;
— Free information, advice and guidance for employees,
accessible through the workplace;
— For employers with less than 50 employees, wage
compensation which partially reimburses them for the time their
employees spend in training.
— Referral to wider ranges of skills and business
support.
Other training initiatives can also be accessed via Train
to Gain, including SME Leadership and Management training, apprenticeships
and foundation degrees.
The skills brokerage service has to date focussed on working
with "hard to reach" employers.
Level 3 training with Train to Gain would generally be free
to the individual; however, their employer would be expected to
make a contribution of 32.5% to the costs of the training in line
with the fee assumption within FE generally.
The March 2005 Skills White Paper committed an additional
£20 million per year in 2006-07 and 2007-08 to Trial in two
regions building an element of funding into what is now Train
to Gain to encourage take up by employers of training leading
to a Level 3 qualification.
The Trials, based in the North West and West Midlands, commenced
in September 2006 and are focused on small to medium sized employers
(up to 250 employees) and support first full Level 3 qualifications
linked to regional and sector priorities.
West Midlands was chosen as a trial area because of its strong
links with and high proportion of manufacturing within the Regional
economy. Similarly the North West has a large manufacturing base
and strong regional partnerships and of developing the link between
skills and employment.
A further £10 million per year is committed to a third
Level 3 Trial, based in London, is focused on women at a disadvantage
at that Level as part of a package of measures in response to
the Women and Work Commission report on occupational gender segregation.
In all three trials the level of subsidy is 67.5% with employers
expected to contribute the remaining 32.5%.
The trials will be evaluated within the overall evaluation
of Train to Gain.
8. PROMOTING SKILLS—PETER
LUFF
To achieve the ambition set out in the Leitch Review of Skills,
we will require the ability to shift attitudes to, and participation
in, learning and skills by employers and learners alike.
The Learning and Skills Council (LSC), Department for Education
and Skills (DfES) and Sector Skills Development Agency (SSDA)
are working together with partners across the Further Education
(FE) system to develop an overarching marketing and communications
campaign (the "big skills campaign") for learning and
skills designed to raise awareness and kick start a positive change
in the attitudes of learners, employers and stakeholders to achieve,
over time, a step change in the way that the country thinks, feels
and acts about learning and skills.
The "big skills campaign" will be a sustained marketing
and communications campaign. The launch date will be finalised
over the coming weeks and will include a TV and advertising campaign
designed to enhance and amplify (not replace) existing campaigns
across the FE system.
APPLICATIONS FOR FULL-TIME FIRST DEGREE COURSES: 2005
TO 2007 AS AT 15 JANUARY IN EACH YEAR BY INDIVIDUAL INSTITUTION
|
| Year of entry
|
| 2005
| 2006 | 2007 |
|
| ALRA (The Academy of Live and Recorded Arts)
| | | 872 |
| American InterContinental University—London
| 337 | 241
| 276 |
| Anglia Ruskin University | 6,694
| 6,549 | 8,035 |
| Askham Bryan College | 55
| 41 | 31 |
| Aston University | 13,399
| 12,305 | 13286 |
| Barking College | 7
| 3 | 6 |
| Basingstoke College of Technology | 7
| 10 | 13 |
| Bath Spa University | 8,188
| 7,917 | 9,945 |
| Bedford College | 1
| | |
| Bell College | 864
| 845 | 1,014 |
Birmingham College of Food, Tourism & Creative Studies
(college accredited by Univ of Birmingham)
| 1,729 | 1,513
| 1,591 |
| Bishop Burton College | 139
| 133 | 141 |
| Bishop Grosseteste College | 842
| 954 | 887 |
Blackpool and The Fylde College
An Associate College of Lancaster University
| 348 | 289
| 391 |
| Bournemouth University | 1,4402
| 1,3584 | 14,827 |
| Bradford College: An Associate College of Leeds Metropolitan University
| 1,238 | 1,077
| 1,048 |
| Brighton and Sussex Medical School | 2,120
| 2,421 | 2,300 |
| Bristol, City of Bristol College |
| 29 | 20 |
| British College of Osteopathic Medicine |
129 | 153 |
183 |
| British School of Osteopathy | 157
| 198 | 202 |
| Brunel University | 19,637
| 20,227 | 21,793 |
| Buckinghamshire Chilterns University College
| 5,411 | 4,451
| 4,130 |
| Buckswood St George's | |
2 | |
| Burton College | 2
| 1 | 1 |
| Canterbury Christ Church University | 8,029
| 7,738 | 9,273 |
| Cardiff University | 32,117
| 34,007 | 34,134 |
| Carmarthenshire College | 91
| 83 | 106 |
| CECOS London College of IT and Management |
49 | 40 | 52
|
| Central School of Speech and Drama | 3,564
| 3,999 | 4,431 |
| City College Coventry | |
| 2 |
| City College Manchester | 216
| 231 | 470 |
| City of Bath College | |
3 | 1 |
| City of Sunderland College |
| 2 | |
| City University | 13,842
| 142,99 | 151,86 |
| Cleveland College of Art and Design | 159
| 142 | 149 |
| Cliff College | 19
| 21 | 13 |
| Colchester Institute | 178
| 192 | 489 |
| Coleg Llandrillo Cymru | 3
| 7 | 28 |
| Coleg Menai | 21
| 3 | 6 |
| College of West Anglia | 66
| 49 | 55 |
| Cornwall College | 44
| 25 | 31 |
| Courtauld Institute of Art (University of London)
| 266 | 242
| 324 |
| Coventry University | 14,473
| 15,280 | 16,672 |
| Craven College | | 3
| 2 |
| Croydon College | 333
| 252 | 266 |
| Cumbria Institute of the Arts | 1,378
| 1,161 | 1,301 |
| Dartington College of Arts | 853
| 606 | 602 |
| De Montfort University | 20,541
| 18,793 | 15,907 |
| Dewsbury College | 25
| 11 | 10 |
| Doncaster College | 257
| 228 | 291 |
| Duchy College | | 1
| |
| Dunstable College | | 1
| |
| Durham University | 27,238
| 27,013 | 28,733 |
| Ealing, Hammersmith and West London College
| 10 | |
1 |
| East End Computing and Business College |
| | 9 |
| East Lancashire Institute of Higher Education at Blackburn College
| 125 | 136
| 163 |
| Edge Hill University | 7,158
| 7,648 | 10,701 |
| Edinburgh College of Art | 1,302
| 1,483 | 1,565 |
| European Business School, London | 361
| 469 | 330 |
| European School of Economics |
| | 110 |
| European School of Osteopathy | 78
| 108 | 16 |
| Exeter College | 20
| 14 | 8 |
| Farnborough College of Technology | 197
| 125 | 153 |
| Glamorgan Centre for Art and Design Technology
| 38 | 44 |
58 |
| Glasgow Caledonian University | 14,178
| 13,954 | 13,799 |
| Gloucestershire College of Arts and Technology
| | | 3 |
| Goldsmiths College (University of London) |
7,449 | 7,057 |
8,480 |
| Great Yarmouth College | 6
| 4 | |
| Greenwich School of Management | 237
| 216 | 212 |
| Grimsby Institute of Further and Higher Education
| 85 | 97 |
113 |
| Guildford College of Further and Higher Education
| 95 | 71 |
69 |
| Harper Adams University College | 1,053
| 1,100 | 1,140 |
| Havering College of Further and Higher Education
| 153 | 151
| 175 |
| Herefordshire College of Art and Design |
102 | 76 | 112
|
| Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh | 6,771
| 6,581 | 6,754 |
| Hertford Regional College | 8
| 19 | 8 |
| Heythrop College (University of London) |
361 | 398 |
427 |
| Holborn College | 71
| 70 | 98 |
| Hull College | 44
| 86 | 261 |
| Hull York Medical School | 1,975
| 1,201 | 1,004 |
| Imperial College London (University of London)
| 12,315 | 13,314
| 13,677 |
| Islamic College for Advanced Studies |
| | 26 |
| Keele University | 11,471
| 11,524 | 10,483 |
| Kensington College of Business |
| | 50 |
| King's College London (University of London)
| 27,262 | 28,348
| 29,883 |
| Kingston University | 24,472
| 25,505 | 26,988 |
| Lancaster University | 14,373
| 12,406 | 14,199 |
| Lansdowne College | 2
| | 2 |
| Leeds College of Art & Design | 721
| 844 | 1,154 |
| Leeds College of Music | 1,656
| 639 | 769 |
| Leeds Metropolitan University | 21,828
| 242,97 | 27,639 |
Leeds Trinity & All Saints
(Accredited College of the University of Leeds)
| 4,508 | 3,854
| 4,019 |
| Leicester College | 2
| 6 | 30 |
| Lincoln College | |
| 5 |
| Liverpool Community College | 138
| 122 | 160 |
| Liverpool Hope University | 7,509
| 8,382 | 9,588 |
| Liverpool John Moores University | 21,983
| 21,953 | 24,163 |
| London Metropolitan University | 17,626
| 17,379 | 17,905 |
| London School of Business and Computing |
| | 302 |
| London School of Commerce |
| 155 | 172 |
London School of Economics and Political Science
(University of London)
| 15,602 | 16,001
| 18,379 |
| London School of Science and Technology |
| 33 | 16 |
| London South Bank University | 9,590
| 10,000 | 10,590 |
| Loughborough College | 67
| 74 | 75 |
| Loughborough University | 20,025
| 17,391 | 19,303 |
| Manchester College of Arts and Technology |
11 | 3 | 1
|
| Marjon—The College of St Mark & St John
| 2,106 | 2,218
| 2,258 |
| Matthew Boulton College of Further and Higher Education
| 39 | 56 |
56 |
| Medway School of Pharmacy | 439
| 468 | 552 |
| Middlesex University | 15,843
| 14,488 | 14,460 |
| Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts |
| 2,446 | 3,055 |
| Myerscough College | 280
| 259 | 240 |
| Napier University, Edinburgh | 6,201
| 6,548 | 7,433 |
| Nazarene Theological College |
| | 25 |
| Neath Port Talbot College | 3
| 5 | 11 |
| NESCOT | 105
| 106 | 108 |
| New College Durham | 156
| 126 | 170 |
| New College Nottingham | 8
| 8 | 36 |
| Newcastle College | 99
| 95 | 183 |
| Newcastle University | 26,459
| 25,639 | 25,594 |
| Newman College of Higher Education | 1,717
| 1,837 | 2,450 |
| North East Worcestershire College | 86
| 100 | 94 |
| North Lindsey College | |
3 | 9 |
| North Warwickshire and Hinckley College |
4 | 4 |
|
| Northbrook College Sussex | 359
| 292 | 332 |
| Northumbria University | 16,300
| 16,101 | 16,638 |
Norwich City College of Further and Higher Education
(an Associate College of UEA)
| 233 | 176
| 230 |
| Nottingham Trent University | 24,855
| 20,270 | 22,240 |
| Oxford & Cherwell Valley College | 41
| | 3 |
| Oxford Brookes University | 20,567
| 18,807 | 19,979 |
| Oxford University | 13,287
| 13,236 | 14,235 |
Pembrokeshire College
(Accredited College of University of Glamorgan)
| 10 | 5 |
12 |
| Peninsula Medical School | 1,867
| 1,829 | 2,277 |
| Peterborough Regional College | 71
| 53 | 47 |
| Plymouth College of Art and Design | 29
| 12 | 25 |
| Queen Margaret University College, Edinburgh
| 6,205 | 5,947
| 6,087 |
| Queen Mary, University of London | 18,317
| 19,544 | 20,434 |
| Queen's University Belfast | 19,593
| 191,87 | 20,687 |
| Ravensbourne College of Design and Communication
| 550 | 471
| 484 |
| Regents Business School London | 212
| 187 | 222 |
| Richmond, The American International University in London
| 254 | 253
| 274 |
| Roehampton University | 8,089
| 8,572 | 9,199 |
| Rose Bruford College | 2,422
| 2,137 | 2,393 |
| Royal Academy of Dance | 118
| 133 | 121 |
| Royal Agricultural College | 640
| 493 | 543 |
| Royal Holloway, University of London | 11,208
| 105,19 | 12,034 |
Royal Veterinary College
(University of London)
| 1,104 | 998
| 1,253 |
Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama
(Coleg Brenhinol Cerdd a Drama Cymru)
| 1,431 | 1,202
| 1,176 |
| Ruskin College Oxford | 26
| 29 | 21 |
| SAE Institute | 369
| 316 | 331 |
| Salisbury College | |
| 1 |
School of Oriental and African Studies
(University of London)
| 3,938 | 4,636
| 4,831 |
| Scottish Agricultural College | 266
| 339 | 313 |
| Sheffield College | |
| 1 |
| Sheffield Hallam University | 24,551
| 24,134 | 26,903 |
| Shrewsbury College of Arts and Technology |
7 | 7 | 1
|
| Solihull College | 22
| 35 | 28 |
| Somerset College of Arts and Technology |
168 | 132 |
143 |
| South Devon College | 8
| 3 | 2 |
| South East Essex College | 635
| 542 | 555 |
| Southampton Solent University | 8,233
| 7,249 | 9,271 |
| Southport College | 1
| 2 | 1 |
| Sparsholt College Hampshire | 268
| 251 | 209 |
St George's, University of London
(formerly St George's Hospital Medical School)
| 5,261 | 5,688
| 5,178 |
St Helens College
An Associate College of Liverpool John Moores University
| 53 | 37 |
47 |
St Martin's College, Lancaster; Ambleside; Carlisle; London
(accredited college of Lancaster University)
| 4,305 | 3,933
| 3,446 |
| St Mary's College | 4,400
| 5,060 | 5,261 |
| Staffordshire University | 11,449
| 11,418 | 11,305 |
| Staffordshire University Regional Federation
| 47 | 31 |
44 |
| Stamford College | 4
| 8 | 11 |
| Stephenson College Coalville | 1
| 1 | |
| Stockport College | 186
| 193 | 219 |
| Stranmillis University College: A College of Queen's University Belfast
| 2,535 | 2,319
| 1,898 |
| Stratford upon Avon College |
| 15 | 1 |
| Swansea Institute of Higher Education | 2,743
| 2,608 | 2,405 |
| Swindon College | 62
| 46 | 44 |
| Thames Valley University | 5,286
| 4,749 | 4,844 |
| The Arts Institute at Bournemouth | 2,547
| 2,532 | 3,288 |
| The College of Agriculture, Food and Rural Enterprise
| 75 | 72 |
101 |
| The Glasgow School of Art | 1,485
| 1,577 | 1,597 |
| The Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts
| 3,766 | 3,523
| 4,134 |
| The Manchester Metropolitan University |
36,410 | 34,507
| 359,36 |
| The North East Wales Institute of Higher Education
| 1,106 | 1,370
| 1,108 |
| The Norwich School of Art and Design | 365
| 468 | 635 |
| The Robert Gordon University | 5,883
| 5,861 | 6,003 |
| The School of Pharmacy (University of London)
| 1,422 | 1,489
| 1,576 |
| The University of Aberdeen | 12,361
| 130,12 | 129,04 |
| The University of Birmingham | 38,606
| 361,78 | 36,869 |
| The University of Bolton | 3,077
| 4,593 | 4,840 |
| The University of Bradford | 10,362
| 10,131 | 102,83 |
| The University of Buckingham | 490
| 478 | 534 |
| The University of Edinburgh | 38,941
| 423,66 | 45,646 |
| The University of Essex | 10,935
| 10,226 | 10,655 |
| The University of Gloucestershire | 8,261
| 8,103 | 8,447 |
| The University of Huddersfield | 15,542
| 14,914 | 14,929 |
| The University of Hull | 14,250
| 12,645 | 13,846 |
| The University of Kent | 15,840
| 16,093 | 17,789 |
| The University of Liverpool | 28,458
| 27,283 | 30,152 |
| The University of Manchester | 56,773
| 56,351 | 579,41 |
| The University of Nottingham | 42,184
| 36,173 | 38,387 |
| The University of Reading | 20,000
| 16,533 | 16,420 |
| The University of Salford | 14,281
| 13,329 | 14,400 |
| The University of Sheffield | 32,937
| 30,994 | 31,787 |
| The University of Stirling | 9,226
| 8,941 | 8,963 |
| The University of Strathclyde | 16,712
| 16,768 | 17,730 |
| The University of Wales, Aberystwyth | 8,915
| 8,058 | 7,838 |
| The University of Wales, Lampeter | 936
| 944 | 804 |
| The University of Warwick | 28,987
| 28,819 | 32,155 |
| The University of York | 20,408
| 19,378 | 19,016 |
| Trinity College Carmarthen | 1,649
| 1,414 | 1,268 |
| Truro College | |
| 32 |
| UHI Millennium Institute | 227
| 183 | 171 |
| University Campus Suffolk | 751
| 804 | 1,263 |
| University College Falmouth | 1,927
| 1,658 | 1,969 |
| University College for the Creative Arts at Canterbury, Epsom, Farnham, Maidstone, Rochester
| 5,504 | 4,793
| 3,961 |
| University College London (University of London)
| 26,187 | 26,623
| 290,07 |
| University of Abertay Dundee | 3,973
| 3,759 | 3,689 |
| University of Bath | 17,383
| 17,516 | 20,319 |
| University of Bedfordshire | 4,936
| 4,473 | 6,468 |
| University of Brighton | 19,247
| 17,995 | 21,203 |
| University of Bristol | 36,684
| 36,040 | 41,829 |
| University of Cambridge | 14,464
| 14,080 | 14,118 |
| University of Central England in Birmingham
| 13,950 | 12,775
| 13,608 |
| University of Central Lancashire | 16,941
| 15,120 | 15,048 |
| University of Chester | 13,800
| 15,168 | 17,636 |
| University of Chichester | 4,817
| 4,564 | 5,537 |
| University of Derby | 11,440
| 9,886 | 10,383 |
| University of Dundee | 11,829
| 11,543 | 11,190 |
| University of East Anglia | 13,601
| 12,312 | 12,971 |
| University of East London | 9,252
| 9,899 | 10,921 |
| University of Exeter | 20,436
| 18,277 | 22,628 |
| University of Glamorgan | 7,802
| 8,699 | 8,664 |
| University of Glasgow | 25,295
| 25,236 | 24,228 |
| University of Greenwich | 14,518
| 13,425 | 15,040 |
| University of Hertfordshire | 18,035
| 16,629 | 17,724 |
| University of Leeds | 49,341
| 44,473 | 49,280 |
| University of Leicester | 14,802
| 14,096 | 15,729 |
| University of Lincoln | 10,892
| 9,145 | 10,402 |
| University of London Institute in Paris |
90 | 94 | 109
|
| University of Northampton | 8,567
| 8,676 | 10,621 |
| University of Paisley | 5,646
| 5,335 | 5,577 |
| University of Plymouth | 16,718
| 14,742 | 16,000 |
| University of Portsmouth | 19,962
| 18,234 | 19,160 |
| University of Southampton | 28,176
| 26,350 | 28,726 |
| University of St Andrews | 10,865
| 12,072 | 11,351 |
| University of Sunderland | 8,278
| 8,167 | 8,220 |
| University of Surrey | 8,080
| 8,018 | 11,158 |
| University of Sussex | 15,338
| 15,453 | 15,602 |
| University of Teesside | 8,888
| 9,110 | 8,414 |
| University of the Arts London | 7,143
| 7,265 | 9,439 |
| University of the West of England, Bristol |
23,669 | 21,711
| 23,000 |
| University of Ulster | 34,052
| 33,308 | 30,350 |
| University of Wales Institute, Cardiff |
8,100 | 8,629 |
9,057 |
| University of Wales Swansea | 11,126
| 12,231 | 12,268 |
| University of Wales, Bangor | 7,877
| 8,130 | 8,804 |
| University of Wales, Newport | 3,335
| 3,742 | 3,884 |
| University of Westminster | 18,117
| 17,632 | 19,387 |
| University of Winchester | 4,950
| 5,180 | 6,148 |
| University of Wolverhampton | 12,891
| 12,878 | 14,227 |
| University of Worcester | 3,944
| 4,224 | 5,964 |
| Wakefield College | |
| 5 |
| Walsall College | |
| 1 |
Warwickshire College, Royal Leamington Spa, Rugby
and Moreton Morrell
| 225 | 212
| 191 |
| Welsh College of Horticulture |
| 14 | |
West Herts College, Watford Associate College
of University of Hertfordshire
| 18 | 15 |
10 |
| Westminster Kingsway College | 14
| 17 | 8 |
| Weston College | 1
| | |
| Wigan and Leigh College | 8
| 6 | 4 |
| Wiltshire College | 41
| 49 | 44 |
| Wirral Metropolitan College | 14
| 14 | 22 |
| Worcester College of Technology | 16
| | 1 |
| Writtle College | 520
| 482 | 426 |
| York College | 46
| 32 | 40 |
| York St John University College | 4,809
| 4,869 | 5,386 |
| Yorkshire Coast College of Further and Higher Education
| 2 | 19 |
26 |
| Ystrad Mynach College | 4
| 2 | 1 |
| Grand Total | 1,891,391
| 1,840,530 | 1,966,476 |
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