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Dept for Education and Skills

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Rob Marris: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many and what proportion of 16 to 19-year-olds enrolled on modern apprenticeships (a) left the programme early, (b) achieved only the NVQ and (c) achieved the full framework in (i) 2002-03 and (ii) 2003-04. [180711] Mr. Ivan Lewis: The Learning and Skills Council (LSC) routinely publish outcomes data for Apprenticeships in the Statistical First Release series "Further Education and Work Based Learning for Young People--Learner Outcomes in England", available to download from the LSC website: http:// www.lsc.gov.uk/National/Documents/SubjectListing/ SectorData/StatisticalFirstReleases/default.htm. Outcomes of learners who were aged 16 to 18 at the start of their programme, and who left an apprenticeship in 2002/03 are shown in the following table. _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Programme Completed framework (x) Achieved NVQ only (y) Total NVQ achievement (x+y) Total leavers Number Percentage1 Number Percentage Number Percentage2,3 Number Advanced Apprenticeships 11,200 38 3,100 10 14,300 49 29,400 Apprenticeships (at level 16,500 25 8,600 13 25,100 38 65,800 2) All Apprenticeships 3 27,800 29 11,700 12 39,400 41 95,200 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. 1 Routinely referred to as the framework completion rate. 2 Routinely referred to as the NVQ success rate. 3 Totals may not equal sum of columns or rows due to rounding. Source: LSC Statistical First Release: Further Education and Work Based Learning for Young People--Learner Outcomes in England: 2002/03, ref. id ILR/SFR04. As the academic year has not yet ended, outcomes data for the whole of 2003/04 are not available. Provisional outcomes data for 2003/04 will be published on the LSC website in November 2004. Early year data indicates that the NVQ success rate for 16 to 18-year- olds on apprenticeships has increased to 42 per cent. in the year to 31 January 2004, from 41 per cent. in the year to 31 January 2003.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

180711; 423 c1249-50W;423 c1250W

Session

2003-04

Subjects

Apprentices Qualifications Standards Take-up National vocational qualifications Modern apprenticeships

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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