Hi all
Just had a look at the latest BIS stats which say that in England only
there were 138,500 learners who 'participated on an ESOL course'
2010-2011. Numbers are counted from ILRs not enrolments (and they go on
to count achievements).
There is a caveat that can't be compared with pre- 2008/9 as they have
improved methodology to remove duplicate learners. These are called
'funded learners'.
Has anyone got a comment/ other data to help me understand this fully?
If these are 'funded' learners, who are the non-funded? Obviously all
the non-accredited community provision but anything else?
It seems very low - and even with this it's interesting that they show a
significant decrease of 8.6% from the year before - just continuing
decline really.
Another aspect which relates to my research and of general interest is
that women are consistently the majority - always within 2 percentage
points of 66%.
Ethnicity stats also worth a look - 'white' learners just the highest
proportion and also increase from 32% at entry level to 56% of L2
learners whilst Asian learners drop from 31-17%. Hmmmm ......
This is the link if anyone wants a look - and you need to follow Post 16
and then the supplementary tables for this detail.
http://www.thedataservice.org.uk/statistics/statisticalfirstrelease/sfr_current/
Cheers!
Sheila
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