The United Kingdom spent approximately 111 billion British pounds on education in 2023/24, 55 billion of which was spent on secondary education and 36.6 billion of which was spent on primary and pre-primary education.

Data on the educational attainment of young people who sat their GCSEs in English state schools in the 2012 to 2013 school year, from age 11 to age 22, compiled using the Longitudinal Educational Outcomes database from the Department for Education (DfE). Data are linked to the area a student lived in when they sat their GCSEs, including characteristics such as town size and income deprivation levels.

There were approximately **** million people working in the education public sector in the United Kingdom as of the first quarter of 2025, compared with *** million in the first quarter of 2000.

Data compiled using the Longitudinal Education Outcomes (LEO) database from Department for Education that links administrative education data from early years through to higher education from the Department for Education (DfE) and the Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) with employment, benefits and earnings data from the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) and Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs (HMRC). It does not include students who were home schooled.

Presents an overview of all aspects of higher education in the UK. It draws together data on students, staff and institutional finance, applicants via the Universities and Colleges Admission Service (UCAS), graduates and graduate destinations, student support, and international comparisons.

Source agency: Business, Innovation and Skills

Designation: National Statistics

Language: English

Alternative title: Higher Education Statistics for the United Kingdom

Annual publication produced by HESA on behalf of the four UK funding bodies and provides performance indicators relating to higher education (HE).

Source agency: Business, Innovation and Skills

Designation: Official Statistics not designated as National Statistics

Language: English

Alternative title: HE performance indicators

Provides statistics relating to education and training in the UK.

Source agency: Education

Designation: National Statistics

Language: English

Alternative title: Education and training statistics for the United Kingdom

Government spending on higher or tertiary education in the United Kingdom was 7.16 billion British pounds in 2023/24, compared with 4.56 billion in the previous financial year.

Interested parties can now request extracts of data from the NPD using an improved application process accessed through the following website; GOV.UK The first version of the NPD, including information from the first pupil level School Census matched to attainment information, was produced in 2002. The NPD is one of the richest education datasets in the world holding a wide range of information about pupils and students and has provided invaluable evidence on educational performance to inform independent research, as well as analysis carried out or commissioned by the department. There are a range of data sources in the NPD providing information about children’s education at different phases. The data includes detailed information about pupils’ test and exam results, prior attainment and progression at each key stage for all state schools in England. The department also holds attainment data for pupils and students in non-maintained special schools, sixth form and further education colleges and (where available) independent schools. The NPD also includes information about the characteristics of pupils in the state sector and non-maintained special schools such as their gender, ethnicity, first language, eligibility for free school meals, awarding of bursary funding for 16-19 year olds, information about special educational needs and detailed information about any absences and exclusions. Extracts of the data from NPD can be shared (under strict terms and conditions) with named bodies and third parties who, for the purpose of promoting the education or well-being of children in England, are:- • Conducting research or analysis • Producing statistics; or • Providing information, advice or guidance. The department wants to encourage more third parties to use the data for these purposes and produce secondary analysis of the data. All applications go through a robust approval process and those granted access are subject to strict terms and conditions on the security, handling and use of the data, including compliance with the Data Protection Act. Anyone requesting access to the most sensitive data will also be required to submit a business case. More information on the application process including the User Guide, Application Form, Security Questionnaire and a full list of data items available can be found from the NPD web page at:- https://www.gov.uk/national-pupil-database-apply-for-a-data-extract

This statistic shows the number of students enrolling in full-time postgraduate courses in higher education (HE) institutions in the United Kingdom (UK) in academic year 2017/18, by subject area and gender. In this academic year, there were 26,360 female students enrolling in engineering and technology postgraduate courses, four times less than the number of male students.

Education terms (previously called A-Z of terms) was the controlled vocabulary developed and maintained by the Department for Education.

The Education terms vocabulary has been deprecated, and will not be updated in this format.

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Final further education and skills data for 2013 to 2014 and provisional further education and skills data for the full 2014 to 2015 academic year.

Additional breakdowns of this data are available at the FE Data Library.

The Education & Training National Success Rates Tables and the Apprenticeships National Success Rates Tables for the academic year 2013/14 were released on Wednesday 8 April 2015 on the national success rates tables page and at www.data.gov.uk. The tables are available in both proprietary and 3-star open data formats.

This is a Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) statistical first release (SFR), published by the Skills Funding Agency (SFA). It is a National Statistics publication and users can find information on its compliance with the Code of Practice for Official Statistics here.

Publication data: Underlying statistical data

Local Authority data: Included in supplementary tables

Region: England

Coverage status: Final

Next release: 18 November 2015

Provides information on adult (aged 19 and over) government-funded further education (excluding schools and higher education) and all age (16 and over) apprenticeships in England, between 2009 to 2010 and 2013 to 2014. It includes provisional data for the full 2014 to 2015 academic year

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Quarterly estimates for young people (aged 16 to 24 years) who are not in education, employment or training (NEET) in the UK. These are official statistics in development.

This statistic shows the value of tuition fee loans awarded to university students in England 2006/07 to 2018/19. Since the 2010/11 academic year there has been significant growth in the value of student’s tuition fee loans for universities in England. For the 2018/19 academic year tuition fee loans have valued approximately 9.2 billion British pounds.