Academic year 2020/21

Progression to higher education or training

Rates and value-added scores of level 3 (e.g., A level) students that sustain a higher education or apprenticeship destination. Includes various breakdowns.

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• Produced by: Department for Education
• Published: 20 October 2022

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• Gender

  Progression rates and destinations by gender and qualification type in England for the 2018/19 cohort

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• Progression by disadvantage status

  Results by disadvantage status are very similar to last year, with disadvantaged students approximately 5 percentage points less likely to progress than non-disadvantaged students.

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• Progression by ethnicity

  Progression to higher education and training in England for the 2018/19 cohort by major ethnicity group

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• Provider type

  Progression rates and scores by provider type for the 2018/19 cohort

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• Time series of headline indicators

  Progression to higher education and training in England for cohorts between 2015/16 and 2018/19, with destination breakdown

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• Progression by regions

  Progression to level 4 or higher destinations by region for 2018/19 cohort

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• Progression by Local Authority

  Progression to higher education and training and value-added progression score for state-funded mainstream schools and colleges by local authority, 2018/19 cohort

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• Progression to higher education and training - National level

  National

  Progression to higher education or training at national level, including breakdowns by institution type and student characteristics.

  • Number of rows: 614
  • Indicators:
    • Number of pupils studying level 3 qualifications
    • Sustained a level 4 or higher destination
    • Sustained degree destination
  • Filters:
    • Data type
    • Institution group
    • Student characteristic
  • Time period: 2015/16 to 2018/19

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• Progression to higher education and training - Headline data

  National

  Dataset used to produce headline figure, containing national-level progression rate.

  • Number of rows: 1
  • Indicators:
    • Sustained a level 4 or higher destination
  • Time period: 2018/19

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• Progression to higher education and training - Local authority level

  Local authority, Parliamentary constituency, Regional

  Progression to higher education or training data by local authority, parliamentary constituency, and region.

  • Number of rows: 18,170
  • Indicators:
    • Number of pupils studying level 3 qualifications
    • Sustained a level 4 or higher destination
    • Sustained degree destination
  • Filters:
    • Data type
    • Institution group
    • Level based on LEA area or provider location
  • Time period: 2015/16 to 2018/19

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• Progression to higher education and training - Institution level

  Institution level data for the progression to higher education and training measure

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Data guidance

Description of the data sets included in this release, including information on data sources, coverage, quality and any data conventions used.

Description

This document describes the data included in the ‘Progression to higher education or training: 2019/20’ National Statistics release’s underlying data files. This data is released under the terms of the Open Government License (opens in new tab) and is intended to meet at least 3 stars for Open Data (opens in new tab).

The publication methodology, available on the publication report, should be referenced alongside this data. It provides information on the data sources, their coverage and quality as well as explaining methodology used in producing the data.

Coverage

This release provides information on destinations from state-funded mainstream schools and colleges.

This information is based on data from the National Pupil Database.

File formats and conventions

The Code of Practice for Statistics requires us to take reasonable steps to ensure that our published or disseminated statistics protect confidentiality. Where appropriate we apply disclosure control to protect confidentiality. 

The following symbols have been used in this publication: 

( 0 ) zero 

( c ) small number suppressed to preserve confidentiality or for accountability reasons 

( z ) not applicable 

(x) not available

( low ) positive % less than 0.5 

Small cohorts 

At institutional level, where cohorts are less than 6, all data are suppressed. This is to ensure that schools are not held to account for small cohorts of pupils rather than for confidentiality reasons. 

This does not apply to levels of data other than institutional level.

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