Apprenticeships and traineeships: May 2020
Apprenticeships and traineeships: May 2020
Apprenticeship service data as at April 2020, and apprenticeship starts to March 2020, with separate April 2020 starts covering the coronavirus outbreak.
Impact of the apprenticeship levy and COVID-19 As of May 2017, reforms have been made to how apprenticeship funding works, including the introduction of the apprenticeship levy and apprenticeship service. The profile of apprenticeship starts changed significantly since the introduction of the levy which, along with the introduction of apprenticeship standards (that are replacing frameworks), has impacted on the number and nature of apprenticeship starts and participation.
The latest monthly apprenticeship data now includes data relating to the period affected by COVID-19, i.e. from March 2020 onwards (note: the UK lockdown was announced on 23 March so is likely to have impacted on starts in the last week of March).
Therefore, extra care should be taken in comparing and interpreting data presented in this release. The apprenticeship starts data are based on the ninth Individualised Learner Record (ILR) data return for the 2019/20 academic year from data providers, with a return date of 6 May 2020.
Headline statistics
Latest figures for the first 8 months of the 2019/20 academic year (August 2019 to March 2020) show:
- Apprenticeship starts reported to date are 260,100
- The proportion of starts on standards was 74.8 per cent (194,400)
- The proportion of starts supported by ASA levy funds1 was 66.5 per cent (172,900)
- The proportion of starts by level was:
o Intermediate level: 32.2 per cent (83,600)
o Advanced level: 43.8 per cent (113,900)2 o Higher level: 24.1 per cent (62,600)
- The proportion of starts by age group was:
o 16-18: 26.4 per cent (68,700)
o 19-24: 29.5 per cent (76,800)
o 25 and over: 44.1 per cent (114,600)
- The number of apprenticeship starts reported to date for March was 19,600; in March 2019, the number reported at the same point was 25,600
Documents
Apprenticeships and traineeships: main text – May 2020 update
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Apprenticeship and levy statistics: May 2020 main tables
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Apprenticeship and levy statistics: May 2020 main tables
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Apprenticeship starts for April 2020, reported to date.
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Apprenticeship starts for April 2020, reported to date.
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Apprenticeship and traineeships: May 2020 metadata for underlying data files
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Unrounded raw data set (framework, standard, SSA, level, age): August 2014 to March 2020, reported to date
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Unrounded raw data set (framework, standard, SSA, level, age): April 2020, reported to date
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List of supplementary files published during the 2019 to 2020 academic year (May 2020 update)
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Apprenticeship and traineeships: May 2020 pre-release access list
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Details
Due to the impact of coronavirus (COVID-19) on further education and apprenticeship training activity, and the reporting of data, the Department for Education (DfE) replaced the planned further in-year statistics from the ‘Apprenticeship and traineeships: April 2020’ release onwards. We will publish the end-of-year releases normally published in November, but replacing the remaining in-year dates enables us to provide releases with more relevant information to cover the period affected by the outbreak.
We intend to make headline statistics such as apprenticeship starts available on a regular basis, and to similar timescales to those currently, but we intend to repurpose our releases to focus on the most relevant information available. Please see the main text document for more information on the replacement to publications.
Email [email protected] to tell us about your key data needs. We’d particularly like to know how often you need data and how you’d like it broken down. For example, by age, level and individual framework or standard.
Read Statistics at DfE to find out about any changes.
This release is an update to the Apprenticeship and traineeships: April 2020 statistics publication and is a repurposed transitionary approach during the coronavirus outbreak. Please read ‘Apprenticeships and traineeships: main text – May 2020 update’ for more information.
We have updated official statistics within the publication to provide:
- the latest monthly apprenticeship starts to March 2020
- the number of apprenticeship service commitments as reported at the end of April 2020
- new, separate tables on apprenticeship starts as first reported for the month of April
The data for April is being provided for transparency during the coronavirus outbreak and would not normally be released due to high levels of underreporting at this point in the year (for example April starts as first reported at this point in 2019 was only 67.5% of the final figure). Additionally, the outbreak will have had an unknown impact on provider reporting, which may mean underreporting has been affected further. Therefore extra care should be taken in interpreting this data.
For commentary and statistics relating specifically to the latest full academic year (2018 to 2019) please read’Further education and skills: November 2019’.
We may amend the content and publication of these statistics depending on user feedback and data reporting.
For further information about this publication, or to provide feedback, please contact:
Further education statistical dissemination team
Matthew Rolfe
Department for Education
2 St Paul’s Place
125 Norfolk Street
Sheffield
S1 2FJ
EmailFE[email protected]
Published 29 May 2020
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