§ Mr. Jon Owen JonesTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills if he will list the 50 further education colleges with the lowest percentage of non-European Union students successfully completing their courses, giving(a) the percentage for each institution and (b) the number of non-EU students at each institution in the last year for which figures are available. [131727]
§ Alan JohnsonThe information requested is not available. The Learning and Skills Council (LSC) only publish success, retention and achievement rates for those learners funded by the council in further education colleges and external institutions in England. However, the majority of learners from countries outside of the European Union are not funded by the LSC—so figures are not available.
Furthermore, the LSC do not publish further education institution success, retention and achievement rates based on less than 500 learners as they can be 169W misleading. In 2001/02, less than 15 further education institutions in England had more than 500 LSC funded non-European Union students.