This statistical data set includes information on education and training participation and achievements broken down into a number of reports including sector subject areas, participation by gender, age, ethnicity, disability participation.

It also includes data on offender learning.

Academic year 2019 to 2020 (reported to date)

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Details of the types of information the DfE holds about you and how you can request the information.

Read the DfE Personal information charter for more on the standards you can expect when we collect, hold or use your personal information.

The DfE privacy notices provide details of your rights and the lawful basis for each processing activity.

‘DfE external data shares’ includes:

• classification of data – understanding the data we share
• DfE external third-party data shares (approved by the Data Sharing Approvals Panel from May 2018 to 31 March 2025)
• regular DfE external third-party data shares supported by appropriate data sharing agreements as of March 2025
• third-party requests for data from the national pupil database (approved prior to April 2018 where data is still held by the requestor as at 31 March 2025)
• data shares with Home Office
• data shares with police and criminal investigation authorities
• data shares through court orders

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Archive

Previous external data shares can be viewed in the https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ukgwa/timeline1/https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dfe-external-data-shares" class="govuk-link">National Archives.

The data in the archived documents may not match DfE’s internal data request records due to definitions or business rules changing following process improvements.

Please note: data on providers is only published annually.

Provider data for later academic years is also available in the data tools and tables statistical data sets within the FE data library.

Local authority tables

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This includes information on learners who are studying on a course at a further education college, learners studying courses within their local community, employees undertaking an apprenticeship, and employees undertaking other qualifications in the workplace. Note: data on providers is only published annually.

It has been designed to complement the main statistical releases, and act as a ‘one stop shop’ for data and information on learners, learning programmes and learner achievement.

FE and skills: in-year provisional data for the current (2019 to 2020) academic year

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Metadata

Indicators:

• childcare provision in terms of childcare settings and childcare places
• percentage of pupils leaving school with English and Maths A* to C grades, or 9 to 4 pass, at General Certificate of Secondary Education (GCSE)
• school inspection outcomes
• full time and part time entrants to higher education per 1,000 population

Data source: Ofsted Freedom of Information early years dataset, Ofsted Schools Management Information, Department for Education and NOMIS

Coverage: England

Rural classification used: Office for National Statistics Rural Urban Classification, Local Education Authority (LEA) classification, also Rural Urban Classification by postcode district for childcare section

Next release date: tbc

Additional information:

• GCSE key stage 4 statistics
• http://geoportal.statistics.gov.uk/datasets/c7f8f0108ed34382bb8745819e322cf1_0" title="ONS Geoportal LEA names" class="govuk-link">Office for National Statistics Geoportal LEA names
• https://www.nomisweb.co.uk/default.asp" title="NOMIS - Official Labour Market Statistics" class="govuk-link">NOMIS

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