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New FE outcome based success measures

19 August 2014

Nick Linford

Director at Lsect

Agenda

10:00 Registration 10:05 New FE Outcome based success measures and consultation

An update from Nick Linford, Lsect

10:50 Q&A 11:00 End

Welcome to this Lsect webinar

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FE outcome based success measures

https:/ / www.gov.uk/ government/ publications/ adult-furt her-educat ion-out come-based-success-measures-experimental-data-2010-to-2011 18 pages 16 pages 15 pages

Q&A Technical annex

And over 1,000 PDF documents running to 13 pages each, one for every S F A funded provider (as well as a single spreadsheet with all the provider figures on)

Published last week

Purpose of publishing the data

“ The measures in this report make use of a new source of data that provide a comprehensive estimate of employment, benefits, and learning activity

• ver time, both before and after study [for learners with a course ending in

2010/ 11]. The data has been used here to provide experimental data for a new set of outcome based success measures for publicly funded post-19 FE and skills in England. However, this is a first step in using these new data which have a broad range of potential applications, and are capable of producing other rich complementary sets of measures.”

“ It is anticipated that data on learner outcomes will serve as an

important accountability tool, both for FE providers on the quality of their post-19 provision, and awarding organisations for the quality of their qualifications.” As well as being “ a possible replacement for the current destinations data used in FE Choices”

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Which learners are being reported on?

The outcome based success measures show data for:

 All 19+ S

kills learners funded through the Adult S kills Budget

 All 19+ Apprenticeship learners funded through the Adult S

kills Budget Therefore this report does not include: x Learners funded through the Adult Community Learning Budget x Learners funded through the Education Funding Authority x Learners funded through the Offenders' Learning and S kills S ervice x 16 -18 year old Apprenticeship learners x Any learners under the age of 19

Destination measures reported

Sustained positive destination – the proportion of all adult learners

with a sustained positive outcome, either into learning or employment.

Sustained learning – the proportion of all adult learners who are in

sustained learning, regardless of economic activity. Learners must be FE or HE learning in all six months between October 2011 and March 2012.

Sustained employment – the proportion of adult learners in sustained

• employment. Learners must be in paid employment in five out of six

months between October 2011 and March 2012. Employment destinations are produced by matching ILR data to HMRC tax records.

Sustained employment for benefit learners – the proportion of adult

learners in sustained employment that were claiming benefits (subj ect to more stringent labour market requirements) the day before the start of their learning. As for sustained employment, but only for learners claiming either Job S eeker’s Allowance (JS A) or Employment S upport Allowance (ES A) in the Work Related Activity Group (WRAG) on the day before their training started.

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National destination data results Provider destination report (example)

13 page report also includes:

By Learner's Highest Level of Learning Aim By Learners with Learning Difficulties and/ or Disabilities All destination data by lower, median and upper quintile

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Other things to note

“ Outcomes are only published where data is available for at least 100 learners, otherwise values are suppressed and marked with ‘ -’ and for all data, totals are rounded to the nearest 100 learners and rates are rounded to the nearest percentage point. Totals may not sum due to rounding.” Therefore, it is likely providers will have many categories where no figures are shown, even though they had 1-99 learners (eg aged 50+ category), but these learners are included in the totals “ Learners are identified unique to a provider, so appear once for each provider where they have completed a course [in 20101/ 11]” The course chosen is based on the highest level for a course retained (achieved or not). Funded but non-retained (those withdrawn) are not counted, unlike success rate reports and other official FE statistics.

The data is experimental

“ The measures in this publication are experimental, and have been published for transparency and to support the consultation which will inform their future

• use. Further data covering FE learners completing study in the 2011/ 12

academic year are being developed and are planned for release in November 2014 alongside responses to the consultation. The next release of data will also look at the potential of providing more qualification level data, primarily with a view to using it to support informed learner choice.”

Biggest health warning: In this version of the data, BIS

have been unable to count self-employment as an employment destination (despite government estimates that 15%

• f employed are self-employed).

And of course highest employment rate is with the military provision… .j ust try and leave! For this an other reasons it is “ Therefore not recommended to use the data to compare provider performance at this stage”

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Responding to the consultation

https:/ / www.gov.uk/ government/ consultations/ adult-further-education-how-do-we-measure-success

This consultation closes at 10 October 2014 5:30pm Friday 10th October in London Apprenticeship funding in 2014/15 Monday 13th October in Y

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Apprenticeship funding in 2014/15 Includes a free copy of my apprenticeship funding guide

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