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English-domiciled higher-level learners in England by subject area of study (Common Aggregation Hierarchy level 1 and 2).
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Data set details
- Theme
- Higher education
- Publication
- Higher Level Learners in England
- Release
- Academic year 2024/25
- Release type
- Number of rows
- 262,830
- Geographic levels
- National, Regional
- Indicators
- Number of entrants
- Number of qualifiers
- Percentage of all enrolments by characteristic
- Filters
- Broad type of higher learning
- Detailed type of higher learning
- Level of study
- Time period
- 2019/20 to 2024/25
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| time_period | time_identifier | geographic_level | country_code | country_name | region_code | region_name | level | broad_type_of_learning | detailed_type_of_learning | subject_level_1 | subject_level_2 | number_of_entrants | number_of_enrolments | number_of_qualifiers | percentage_of_entrants_by_characteristic | percentage_of_all_enrolments_by_characteristic | percentage_of_qualifiers_by_characteristic |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 201920 | Academic year | National | E92000001 | England | Level 4 | Apprenticeship | Apprenticeship | Agriculture, food and related studies | Agriculture, food and related studies | 50 | 120 | 25 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.3 | ||
| 201920 | Academic year | National | E92000001 | England | Level 4 | Apprenticeship | Apprenticeship | Agriculture, food and related studies | Total | 50 | 120 | 25 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.3 | ||
| 201920 | Academic year | National | E92000001 | England | Level 4 | Apprenticeship | Apprenticeship | Architecture, building and planning | Architecture, building and planning | 1105 | 2285 | 345 | 4.2 | 4.1 | 4.6 | ||
| 201920 | Academic year | National | E92000001 | England | Level 4 | Apprenticeship | Apprenticeship | Architecture, building and planning | Total | 1105 | 2285 | 345 | 4.2 | 4.1 | 4.6 | ||
| 201920 | Academic year | National | E92000001 | England | Level 4 | Apprenticeship | Apprenticeship | Business and management | Business and management | 13010 | 29975 | 4315 | 49.7 | 53.8 | 57.2 |
Variables in this data set
| Variable name | Variable description |
|---|---|
| broad_type_of_learning | Broad type of higher learning |
| detailed_type_of_learning | Detailed type of higher learning |
| level | Level of study |
| number_of_enrolments | Total number of enrolments |
| number_of_entrants | Number of entrants |
Footnotes
- See the publication Methodology for explanation of differences from other official statistics on apprenticeships and higher education.
- The “Other higher level - Unfunded” category is a lower bound estimate. There is likely to be some unfunded-learning in FE providers that is not recorded as it is only mandatory for providers to record information in the ILR for their government-funded learners. There may also be higher level learning in the private sector that is not recorded in administrative data held by government.
- From 2023/24, the percentage taught across each Learn Direct Classification System (LDCS) subject that a higher education student studies at further education providers has stopped being collected as part of the Individualised Learner Record (ILR). A supplementary survey to collect this information from further education providers that are registered with the Office for Students (OfS) was introduced for 2023/24. For this publication, students at further education providers with unavailable percentage taught information have had their time distributed evenly across each of their subjects. See the publication Methodology for more information.
- Since 2022/23, HESA have reported a larger amount of missing permanent address information at a number of providers. Some of the missing data relates to continuing students for whom it was not possible to retrieve the information from the legacy submissions. Other missing data may be attributed to missing entry information.
- Geographies are taken from the National Statistics Postcode Lookup based on boundaries as of February 2024.
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