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14-19 Diplomas

Volume 471: debated on Monday 4 February 2008

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The Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families
(Ed Balls)

The first five new diplomas will be available from September 2008 and will be in construction and the built environment, creative and media, engineering, information technology, and society, health and development. We announced last March that over 800 schools and over 150 colleges would be in the first consortia offering 14-19 Diplomas from September 2008.

A breakdown of consortia offering the first five lines by region and local authority is shown in table 1. The forecast first year diploma funding for each region in 2008-09 is set out in table 2, subject to final pupil numbers for each region.

The next five diplomas will be available from September 2009 and will be in manufacturing and product design, business, administration and finance, land-based and environmental studies, hair and beauty, and hospitality. We can now announce that two thirds of all secondary schools and three quarters of colleges in England have applied to offer these five new diplomas, plus the first five diplomas, as part of consortia from September 2009.

These figures show that diplomas are proving a popular choice for schools and colleges. Diplomas will offer learners a new route into further and higher education as well as into skilled work. In December, the independent organisation UCAS announced that the points value of the advanced diploma will be the same as that awarded for three and a half A levels.

Consortia Readines Assessment (January 2008)

Go

Local Authority

No. of Consortia in LA

No. of Schools in Consortium

No. of Colleges in Consortium in LA

EE

Cambridgeshire

1

7

2

EE

Hertfordshire

3

28

3

EE

Luton

1

6

1

EE

Norfolk

2

9

1

EE

Southend-on-Sea

1

5

1

EE

Suffolk

1

4

1

EM

Derby

1

2

1

EM

Nottingham

1

11

4

EM

Derbyshire

1

4

0

EM

Leicestershire

2

10

2

EM

Lincolnshire

6

25

5

EM

Northamptonshire

3

9

3

EM

Nottinghamshire

4

30

5

EM

Rutland

1

2

2

L

Barking and Dagenham

1

8

1

L

Bromley

1

5

1

L

Croydon

1

4

2

L

Ealing

1

17

2

L

Hackney

3

6

5

L

Hammersmith and Fulham

1

3

0

L

Haringey

1

3

0

L

Harrow

1

4

1

L

Hillingdon

1

8

1

L

Hounslow

1

3

0

L

Islington

1

8

1

L

Lambeth

1

7

2

L

Lewisham

1

6

2

L

Newham

1

15

2

L

Southwark

1

6

2

L

Tower Hamlets

1

6

1

L

Waltham Forest

1

18

3

L

Wandsworth

1

3

1

NE

Durham

1

1

1

NE

Gateshead

1

1

1

NE

Hartlepool

1

2

1

NE

Middlesbrough

1

4

1

NE

Newcastle-Upon -Tyne

1

6

1

NE

North Tyneside

1

11

1

NE

Sunderland

1

18

1

NW

Blackburn with Darwen

1

1

1

NW

Bolton

1

11

2

NW

Bury

1

7

1

NW

Cheshire

3

16

2

NW

Cumbria

1

9

2

NW

Halton

1

6

1

NW

Knowsley

1

7

1

NW

Lancashire

4

21

5

NW

Liverpool

1

8

1

NW

Manchester

1

11

2

NW

Oldham

1

5

1

NW

Rochdale

1

3

1

NW

Salford

1

10

3

NW

Sefton

1

3

1

NW

St. Helens

1

3

2

NW

Tameside

1

5

1

NW

Trafford

1

3

0

NW

Warrington

1

4

2

SE

Brighton and Hove

1

10

2

SE

Buckinghamshire

2

2

1

SE

East Sussex

5

5

1

SE

Hampshire

3

24

4

SE

Kent

4

13

3

SE

Medway

1

11

2

SE

Milton Keynes

1

3

1

SE

Oxfordshire

2

6

1

SE

Reading

1

6

0

SE

Surrey

5

19

5

SE

West Sussex

2

3

2

SW

Plymouth

1

9

1

SW

Cornwall

1

8

2

SW

Dorset

3

13

5

SW

Gloucestershire

1

2

1

SW

North Somerset

1

14

1

SW

Somerset

1

4

1

SW

South Gloucestershire

1

6

1

SW

Swindon

1

8

1

SW

Torbay

1

2

1

SW

Wiltshire

1

3

1

WM

Birmingham

4

21

6

WM

Coventry

2

6

1

WM

Dudley

1

3

1

WM

Shropshire

1

2

1

WM

Solihull

1

6

2

WM

Staffordshire

3

10

1

WM

Stoke-on-Trent

1

7

1

WM

Walsall

1

2

1

WM

Wolverhampton

1

13

1

WM

Worcestershire

2

16

1

Y&H

Barnsley

1

8

2

Y&H

Bradford

1

7

1

Y&H

Calderdale

1

10

1

Y&H

Kingston-upon-Hull

1

15

3

Y&H

York

1

6

1

Y&H

Kirklees

1

27

4

Y&H

Leeds

2

15

2

Y&H

North East Lincolnshire

1

2

0

Y&H

North Yorkshire

1

4

0

Y&H

Rotherham

1

6

1

Y&H

Sheffield

1

17

2

Y&H

Wakefield

1

1

0

Consortia Readines Assessment (January 2008)

Local Authority

No of Consortia in Government Office Region

No of Schools in Consortium in Government Office Region

No of Colleges in Consortium in Government Office Region

Key Stage 4 funding for Diplomas in Government Office Region

East of England

9

59

9

£2.3m

East Midlands

19

93

22

£2.6m

London

20

130

27

£5.2m

North-East

7

43

7

£1.4m

North -West

23

133

29

£4.3m

South-East

27

102

22

£3.5m

South-West

12

61

13

£3.3m

West Midlands

17

86

16

£2. 1m

Yorkshire and The Humber

13

118

17

£1.8m

NB. Figures shown above are based upon early estimates of student take up of Diplomas. When take up numbers have been confirmed the funding may change accordingly.