§ Mr. WillisTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many people aged 14 to 19 are studying for a vocational qualification in(a) further education colleges, (b) schools and (c> on-the-job training in each of the learning and skills council areas.[105137]
§ Margaret HodgeThe numbers of 16 to 19-year-olds studying vocational qualifications in schools and further education colleges (including sixth form colleges) at end 2000 by each local Learning and Skills Council area are given in the following table. The year 2000 is the latest for which comparable figures are available. The figures include people studying NVQs, VCE A-levels, GNVQs and equivalents.
Also included are the numbers of 16 to 18-year-olds in Government Supported Training (GST). Local level information for other forms of work-based training is not available.
Numbers of 14 and 15-year-olds in schools are not available by type of course being studied.
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Participation in vocational qualifications1 in England by local LSC area, end 2000 16 to 19-year-olds2 16 to 18-year-olds2 All Schools3 Sixth form and other FE colleges4 Government supported training5 North East County Durham 600 6,000 3,000 Northumberland 1,000 2,700 1,400 Tees Valley 200 10,100 3,900 Tyne and Wear 2,200 12,400 5,900 North West Cheshire and Warrington 1,300 8,600 3,200 Cumbria 900 4,700 2,600 Greater Manchester 900 31,500 11,300 Greater Merseyside 3,000 16,700 8,300 Lancashire 600 19,000 6,500 Yorkshire and the Humber Humberside 600 11,400 4,700 North Yorkshire 1,500 7,100 3,400 South Yorkshire 1,300 14,300 6,100 West Yorkshire 4,800 24,300 8,100 East Midlands Derbyshire 1,100 9,700 4,100 Leicestershire 1,600 9,700 2,500 Lincolnshire and Rutland 900 6,100 2,500 Northamptonshire 1,300 5,900 2,300 Nottinghamshire 1,100 11,000 4,100 West Midlands Birmingham and Solihull 2,300 14,500 3,000 Coventry and Warwickshire 1,000 9,400 3,200 Herefordshire and Worcestershire 900 7,900 2,300 Shropshire 200 5,100 1,900 Staffordshire 1,300 12,300 4,500 The Black Country 2,000 13,100 5,100 East of England Bedfordshire and Luton 1,000 6,600 1,600 Cambridgeshire 1,300 6,300 1,900 Essex 2,100 14,500 4,100 Hertfordshire 2,000 8,500 2,000 Norfolk 800 7,100 2,100 Suffolk 1,100 6,100 2,300 London London Central 3,000 11,000 1,900 London East 3,600 20,800 4,200 London North 2,000 10,700 1,600 London South 2,400 9,500 2,100 London West 3,600 13,400 2,100 South East Berkshire 1,500 6,400 2,700 Hampshire and the Isle of Wight 700 19,100 5,200 Kent and Medway 4,400 13,000 3,700 Milton Keynes, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire 2,600 10,900 3,900 Surrey 1,500 7,800 1,300 Sussex 2,200 13,300 3,000 South West Bournemouth, Dorset and Poole 1,200 6,100 2,700 Devon and Cornwall 3,000 16,200 5,400 Gloucestershire 800 5,300 1,800 Somerset 400 6,000 2,000 West of England 1,400 8,900 2,700 Wiltshire and Swindon 700 6,700 1,600 1 Highest qualification aim of student. There will be some whose highest aim is an academic qualification, but who combine this with a lower level vocational qualification. 2 Age as at 31August. 3 From January 2001 Annual Schools Census. Includes all 16 to 19-year-olds in maintained and independent schools and City Technology Colleges. Excludes special schools, as qualification breakdowns are not available. 4 From the LSC's Individualised Student Record—final data for snapshot at 1 November 2000. Includes all 16 to 19-year-olds in sixth form colleges, general FE colleges, tertiary colleges and specialist colleges.
5 From the Training and Enterprise Council's Management information Service combined with the trainee databases, as at end 2000.