Further education, work-based learning and community learning: August 2020 to July 2021

During this period, education provision continued to be disrupted by the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.

Main points

• There were 142,735 learners at further education institutions (FEIs), Adult Learning or Work-based Learning (WBL) providers during 2020/21.
• There were 108,520 unique learners at FEIs,  a decrease of around 3% on the previous year.
• This decrease was entirely driven by part-time learners at FEIs (down 11%).
• The number of full-time learners at FEIs increased by 3% and learners undertaking WBL at FEIs increased by 1%.
• There were 5,555 unique learners in Adult Learning.
• Total work-based learner numbers (including those at other training providers) decreased by 1% on the previous year.
• There were around 7% fewer apprenticeship learning programmes started.

Note

This statistical first release summarises data on learners in post-16 education and training, excluding those at higher education institutions and schools but including further education institutions, other work-based learning providers and adult learning provision collected via the Welsh Government’s Lifelong Learning Wales Record.