Adult Education: Qualifications

To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills how many people have passed qualifications on adult education courses in each of the last five years; and to what level. (150437)

The numbers of successes and success rates by level for adult Further Education and Work Based Learning are shown in the following tables. Similar information is not centrally collated for the other strands of adult education.

*Successes and success rates in LSC funded FE provision for adults (19+)*
Qualification type	Successes (thousands) 2004/05	Success rates (percentage)
	2001/02	2001/02	2002/03	2003/04	2005/06	2001/02	2001/02	2002/03	2003/04	2005/06
Long¹ courses
Level 1	296	401	399	378	331	50	59	59	61	64
Level 2	258	261	262	280	288	49	54	54	60	65
Full Level 2 learning aims	n/a	64	65	83	99	n/a	54	55	60	66
Not full level 2 learning aims	n/a	197	197	198	188	n/a	54	54	60	65
Level 3	185	170	173	176	178	50	53	54	58	63
Level 4, 5 and HE	11	13	7	10	12	38	47	59	59	62
Level not specified	192	66	72	79	66	62	68	63	72	76
All Long¹ courses	948	917	913	923	875	52	57	57	61	65
All Short² courses	1,832	2,124	2,131	2,116	1,637	75	82	82	83	85
All Qualifications	2,773	3,023	3,044	3,040	2,513	65	72	72	75	77
¹ Long courses are of expected length of 24 weeks or more ² Short courses are of expected length of less than 24 weeks

*Successes and success rates in LSC work based learning provision for adults (19+)*
	Successes¹ (thousands)	Current success rates (percentage)
Programme type	2001/02	2001/02	2002/03	2003/04	2005/06	2001/02	2001/02	2002/03	2003/04	2005/06
Advanced Apprentice-ships (Level 3)	10	12	12	13	17	31	39	44	50	60
Apprentice-ships at level 2	10	14	17	24	28	31	35	42	52	59
All frameworks or NVQs²	25	35	39	44	49	33	40	46	53	60
¹ Successfully completing framework or NVQ component or both. ² Includes NVQ training not separately identified above.

Volume 463: debated on Monday 3 September 2007