These statistics cover the following topics:

• early years
• primary school attainment
• secondary school attainment
• school quality
• 16 to 19 education
• post-19 education

We are publishing this data to support DfE’s opportunity areas programme.

This statistical volume is published by the Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) in consultation with statisticians in BIS and the devolved administrations.

This publication presents an overview of all aspects of higher education in the UK and contains data for England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and the UK. It draws together data on students, staff, institutional finance, applicants via UCAS, graduates and graduate destinations, student support and international comparisons.

The latest release relates to academic year 2009 to 2010 and was published on 22 September 2011.

A http://www.hesa.ac.uk/content/view/2257/161/">HESA press release is available, announcing publication and highlighting some of the key points. Copies of the volume can be purchased from HESA via their http://www.hesa.ac.uk">website.

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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A compendium of education, qualifications and training statistics for Rural and Urban areas in England.

The January 2025 release of the Digest includes analysis updates for the following topics within this theme:

• Education – Schools and their workforce
• Education – Class sizes

The supplementary data tables provide additional statistics for each section of the Digest, using the Rural-Urban Classification categories. The Local Authority data tables supply the disaggregated datasets, used to conduct analysis in the Digest, at a Local Authority level where feasible.

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Previous editions

Copies of the Education, Qualifications and Training Statistics for Rural England publication are available from the National Archive.

https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ukgwa/20240910153022/https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/education-qualifications-and-training-statistics-for-rural-england">Education, Qualifications and Training Statistics for Rural England, 10 September 2024

https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ukgwa/20240416153806/https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/education-qualifications-and-training-statistics-for-rural-england">Education, Qualifications and Training Statistics for Rural England, 16 April 2024

https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ukgwa/20240116162724/https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/education-qualifications-and-training-statistics-for-rural-england">Education, Qualifications and Training Statistics for Rural England, 16 January 2024

https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ukgwa/20230919153633/https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/education-qualifications-and-training-statistics-for-rural-england">Education, Qualifications and Training Statistics for Rural England, 19 September 2023

https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ukgwa/20230314171037/https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/education-qualifications-and-training-statistics-for-rural-england">Education, Qualifications and Training Statistics for Rural England, 14 March 2023

Statistics up to 2022 can be found https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ukgwa/20230208015303/https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistical-digest-of-rural-england">here.

These statistics on student enrolments and qualifications obtained by higher education (HE) students at HE providers in the UK are produced by the Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA). Information is available for:

• undergraduate and postgraduate study
• full-time and part-time study
• country of domicile
• subject area
• demographics and disadvantage
• degree classifications

Earlier higher education student statistics bulletins are available on the https://www.hesa.ac.uk/data-and-analysis/statistical-first-releases?date_filter%5Bvalue%5D%5Byear%5D=&topic%5B%5D=4">HESA website.

This publication analyses the characteristics of pupils by their:

• special educational needs provision
• type of need

It’s based on data collected through the:

• school census
• general hospital school census
• school-level annual school census (SLASC) for independent schools

This statistical first release (SFR) provides analyses on the characteristics of pupils by their:

• level of special educational needs (SEN)
• type of SEN

It is based on pupil-level data collected through the school census, general hospital school census and school-level annual school census (SLASC).

The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS)

The key statistic in the “Participation Rates in Higher Education” Statistical First Release (SFR) is the Higher Education Initial Participation Rate (HEIPR).

HEIPR was used by BIS (and former Departments) and Her Majesty’s Treasury to track progress on the former Skills PSA target to “Increase participation in Higher Education towards 50 per cent of those aged 18 to 30, with growth of at least a percentage point every two years to the academic year 2010-11”. For example, it was reported in the http://www.bis.gov.uk/assets/biscore/corporate/migratedD/publications/D/DIUS-Annual%20Report-2009">Departmental annual report.

HEIPR has been quoted in http://www.parliament.the-stationery-office.co.uk/pa/cm200809/cmselect/cmpubacc/226/22605.htm">Public Accounts Committees around increasing and widening participation in higher education

HEIPR has been quoted extensively by the http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/8596504.stm">Press

BIS receives enquiries (including Freedom of Information (FoI) requests) from the public about HEIPR, including from the following groups:

• academic researchers
• higher education sector
• local authorities - students
• Members of Parliament (via Parliamentary Questions).

The Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA)

Figures in the HESA SFRs are high profile and are frequently used in the press and other external publications to illustrate: trends in university entry and graduation, often in the context of current higher education policies; graduate employment/unemployment rates, average salaries, and job quality. Members of the public also often request these figures. Some examples of media coverage are included below:

Higher Education student enrolments and qualifications

• http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=26&storycode=410023&c=1">Times Higher Education
• http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1243237/Number-students-awarded-class-degree-doubles-12-years-seven.html">Daily Mail
• http://www.independent.co.uk/news/education/education-news/1-in-7-gained-firstclass-degrees-in-2009-1868188.html">The Independent

Destinations of leavers from Higher Education

• http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/10477551">BBC News
• http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1291121/20-000-graduates-failed-job-year-recession-pushes-figure-25.html?ITO=1490">Daily Mail

These statistical outputs are not used to measure progress on any government targets, but the data that underpin them are of importance to funding bodies, Higher Education Institutions, and potential students:

• http://www.hefce.ac.uk/">Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) – uses information on the student body in the allocation of state funding to individual Higher Education Institutions.
• http://www.hesa.ac.uk/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2072&Itemid=141">Higher Education Institutions – benchmark themselves against other institutions using such sources of data as the HESA Performance Indicators.

Potential Students – sources such as the http://unistats.direct.gov.uk/">Unistats website use qualifier and graduate employment information to inform students when they are making their choice of what course to study and at which university.

Figures from the HESA statistical outputs are often u