A CRASH COURSE IN LIFELONG LEARNING STATISTICS

A CRASH COURSE IN LIFELONG LEARNING

STATISTICS

STEPHEN SMITH

Lifelong Learning StatisticsPublications

• Students In Higher Education At Scottish Institutions

• Attainment in Higher Education and Destinations of Leavers

• Age Participation Index (API)• Higher Education Student Support in Scotland• Education Maintenance Allowances• Student Loans for Higher Education

- (published with the Student Loans Company)

Analysis concerning student characteristics

Students in Higher Education at Scottish Institutions

Information on students from both Colleges and HEIs who are attending Higher Education courses in

Scotland. These statistics are collected by the Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) from HEIs and by

the Scottish Funding Council (SFC) from Colleges

Published March 2010

279,615 Students in HE in Scottish HEIs and Colleges: 2008-09

HNC/HND39,105

14%

Taught Postgraduate42,760

15%

Other Higher Education50,050

18%

Research Postgraduate9,935

4%

First Degree137,720

49%

In the last ten years the proportion of international students has increased from

8.7% to 14.0%

Attainment in Higher Education and Destinations of Leavers

Qualifiers from HE courses at HEIs and colleges in Scotland and the first destination of qualifiers from HE

Published December 2009

DLHE survey

• Destination of Leavers from Higher Education

• Qualifiers from HE courses at HEIs surveyed 6 months after graduating

• Provides data on the occupation of qualifiers.

• Only UK and other EU qualifiers

Qualifiers from HE courses at Scottish HEIs and Colleges: 1999-00 to 2007-08

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First Destination of HE qualifiers from Scottish HEIs: 2007-08

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Study/Training

Permanent UK employment

Temporary UK employment

Overseas employment

Believed unemployed

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Age Participation Index (API)

An estimate of the share of 17 year olds in the population who can be

expected to enter full-time HE for the first time before their 21st birthday, if

current trends continue

Published September 2009

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Higher Education Student Support in Scotland

Student support provided or assessed by the Student Awards Agency for Scotland to

students studying in Scotland and elsewhere academic year 2008-09

Published November 2009

Some Headline Student Support Statistics

• How many students?– 2008-09

• 124,845 students supported by SAAS

• 115,300 Scots• 9,545 EU

• How much money?– 2008-09

• £482.6 million (almost ½ billion!)

Education Maintenance Allowances

Students at school or college in Scotland in receipt of EMA for academic year

2008-09

Published January 2010

Data Sources

Local AuthoritiesSCHOOL PUPILS

EMA Payments 2008-09

• 39,000 school pupils and college students received EMA payments in Scotland in the academic year 2008-09.

• 39% of all 16-19 year old school pupils in Scotland received EMA support.

• £35.4 million was paid out under the EMA scheme: £27.5 million in weekly payments and £7.9 million in bonus payments.

STUDENT LOANS FOR HIGHER

EDUCATION IN SCOTLAND

Financial Year 2008-09

Published June 2009

Revised version published October 2009

Student Loans Scotland

• The balance outstanding (including loans not yet due for repayment) at the end of financial year 2008-09 was £2,227.4m, an increase of 9% compared with 2007-08.

• At the end of 2008-09 there were 386,800 borrowers; of these, 289,500 (75%) had accounts liable for repayment, increases of 5% and 7%, respectively, compared with 2007-08.

• The average outstanding balance is £5,765.

Discussion• What use do you make of Lifelong

Learning Statistics?• What are the most important topics in

higher and further education?• What information would be relevant to

you?• Are there any aspects of the information

you use that are unclear or confusing?• Any questions on our work in LLL

Statistics

www.scotland.gov.uk/simd

Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation (SIMD) 2009

Lifelong Learning Statistics: Users’ Conference

Andrew WhiteSmall Area Statistics

26th March 2010


A quick run through of…

• What is SIMD 2009?

• Some points to watch

• Headline findings

• Where to find more


What is the SIMD?• The Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation identifies small

area concentrations of multiple deprivation across all of Scotland.

• Relative measure ranking the 6,505 datazones in Scotland from 1 being most deprived to 6,505 being the least deprived.

• SIMD is one measure of deprivation, it is not the only one.

• Uses include– Allocation of funding (e.g. Fairer Scotland Fund)– Targeting of resources by Local Authorities



SIMD 2009• Update to SIMD 2006 (and SIMD 2004)

• Minimise change since SIMD 2006 to ensure comparability

• 38 indicators across 7 aspects of deprivation (domains)

• Same domains as in SIMD 2006

• Some changes to indicators

• Mostly 2007 / 2008 data


SIMD domains• SIMD 2009 domains

– Income 28%– Employment 28%– Health 14%– Education, skills & training 14%– Geographic access to services 9%– Crime 5%– Housing 2%

• Datazones are ranked in each domain and the domains are combined using the weightings shown.


Education, Skills & Training Domain• Indicators

– School pupil absences - (24%)– Pupil Performance on SQA at Stage 4 - (25%)– Working age people with no qualifications - (26%)– 17-21 year olds enrolling into HE - (15%)– People ages 16-19 not in education, employment or

training - (9%)

• NEET indicator change for 2009• Populations relevant to indicator• Combined using factor analysis


Things you should know…

• The Index is relative i.e. it shows whether an area is more or less deprived than another one but not how much more or less deprived.

• The least deprived area is not the most affluent, it just lacks deprivation e.g. in the income domain there is a lack of benefit claimants.

• Not everyone living in a deprived area is deprived. Nor do all deprived people live in the most deprived areas.

• There will always be 976 datazones in the 15% most deprived – if a datazone moves out another will move in.


Headline findings• Improvements in Glasgow


Change in Glasgow


Headline findings• Improvements in Glasgow

• Concentrations of multiple deprivation becoming more spread out geographically

• Concentrations of deprivation in most deprived datazones reduced slightly

• 4 in 5 datazones that moved out of 15% most deprived between 04 and 06 stayed out.

• 4 in 5 datazones in most deprived 15% in SIMD 09 have been in on both SIMD 04 and SIMD 06


Most deprived datazone in Scotland

• S01003279

• East end of Glasgow.

• Ranked 62 in SIMD 2006

• DZ ranked 1 in SIMD 2006 now ranked 2














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Where to find more..• General report with initial analysis • Technical report• Guidance leaflet• Interactive mapping website• Statistical Compendium

– tables, charts & maps • Background data for SIMD 2006• www.scotland.gov.uk/simd• More to come…

http://www.scotland.gov.uk/simd


ANY QUESTIONS?

Contacts:

Andrew White

Tel: 0131 244 7714

[email protected]

Neighbourhood Statistics (SNS & SIMD)

Tel: 0131 244 0442

[email protected]

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mailto:[email protected]

LLL Stats use of SIMD

• Students – Entrants to HE from the 20% most deprived areas in Scotland by institution type

• Qualifier destinations – Main activity of full-time first degree qualifiers from 20% most deprived areas in Scotland 6 months after graduating

• EMA – Full year participants in the scheme from the 15% most deprived areas in Scotland

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Under-representation ofworking age populationfrom deprived areas

Other Sources of Information

http://www.ucas.ac.uk/

http://www.student-support-saas.gov.uk/index.htm

http://scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Statistics/scotstat

http://www.oecd.org/home/0,3305,en_2649_201185_1_1_1_1_1,00.html

OECD participation comparisons

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Lifelong Learning statistics are distributed through the ScotStat mailing list

To register visit the ScotStat website:

scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Statistics/scotstat



Useful Websites

• Scottish Govt Lifelong Learning Statistics – www.scotland.gov.uk/llstatistics

• ScotStat - http://scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Statistics/scotstat

• Information regarding National Statistics - http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Statistics/About/NationalStatistics

• HESA - www.hesa.ac.uk

• SFC - www.sfc.ac.uk

• INFACT Database - stats.sfc.ac.uk/infact

• UCAS - www.ucas.ac.uk/about_us/media_enquiries/media_releases

• Scottish Neighbourhood Statistics - www.sns.gov.uk

• OECD Education at a Glance - www.oecd.org

• Student Awards Agency for Scotland (SAAS) - www.saas.gov.uk

• Student Loans Company (SLC) - www.slc.co.uk

Discussion

• How could SIMD be used within the Lifelong Learning topic?

• Are there any other social factors in HE and FE that are relevant to LLL statistics?

• Any further questions on our publications, website or other sources of information

Contact Lifelong Learning StatisticsEmail

[email protected]

Tel 0300 244 1058

Fax0300 244 1060

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A CRASH COURSE IN LIFELONG LEARNING STATISTICS