HC Deb 11 July 2000 vol 353 c461W
Mr. Levitt

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment what the drop-out rate was for students on courses of further education in the most recent academic year for which figures are available. [129704]

Mr. Wicks

Published figures are in terms of the median college in-year retention rate, which in 1997–98 was 87 per cent. for full-time students and 84 per cent. for part-time students.

Source:

"Performance Indicators 1997–98: Further Education College in England", Further Education Funding Council, September 1999.