Summary statistics 1999/00

Summary Statistics for Further Education Institutions is published by the Learning and Skills Council and replaces Performance Indicators published by the FEFC.

This publication (available for download from this page) contains performance indicators for 415 further education (FE) and sixth form colleges in England plus, similar data and comment for 212 LEA maintained and independent external institutions, together with analysis and interpretation for the further education sector as a whole.

The statistics for individual colleges relate to the 1998/98 and 1999/2000 college years with trends since 1997/98 included in the section on analysis and interpretation.

The Council has adopted five summary statistics which focus on key areas of the institutions activity. The summary statistics have been developed to complement existing published information and have five main purposes:

• to enable institutions to compare their performance with those of equivalent organisations
• to enable institutions to set targets for improving their performance which are both realistic and challenging
• to provide information to the Department for Education and Skills (DFES) and the general public as part of the accountability for spending public funds
• to enable institutions and the Council to monitor changes in performance at each institution over time.
• to inform the performance reviews of providers undertaken by the LSC.

Downloading the publication

Summary statistics 1999/2000 and Performance Indicators 1998/99 are available for download in Adobe Acrobat's Portable Document Format (PDF). To view the document you will need Acrobat Reader® software installed on your computer.

The data in annex C shows the 1999/2000 and1998/99 summary statistics listed by individual institution.

Institutions are shown alphabetically within local LSC area and by five college types (agriculture and horticulture, art and design and performing arts, specialist designated, general further education and tertiary, sixth form college), with a sixth category for external institutions.

The following information is shown for each institution:

• the results of the five summary statistics for 1999/2000 and 1998/99 for colleges and external institutions.
• some contextual information including: the number of full-time and part-time students at institution; the proportion of students recruited from areas of deprivation, and the average level of funding the institution received from the FEFC in 1999/2000.

The five statistics have been calculated from information provided by institutions as part of the annual cycle of student and financial data returns to the Council. Results for 1998/99 may differ slightly from those previously published by the Council, reflecting revisions to some colleges' data.

Last Modified: 15 Feb 05