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Education (16-18) Outcomes

The numbers and percentages of students continuing to education, apprenticeship or employment destinations in the year after completing 16 to 18 study in North East schools and colleges

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North East outcomes

  • Among students who completed 16 to 18 study in North East schools and colleges in 2020/21:
    • About 79.3% were in sustained education, employment or apprenticeships
    • around 47.6% in education, including 38.1% in higher education
    • a further 21.6% were in sustained employment
    • and 10.1% were in apprenticeships, with most at intermediate or advanced level.
  • Compared to England as a whole:
    • A smaller percentage of North East students were in a sustained destination
    • this was true for both sustained education and employment
    • however, a higher percentage of North East students were in sustained apprenticeships
  • Within the North East:
    • students from North Tyneside schools and colleges were most likely to be in a sustained destination
    • this was mainly due to a very high percentage in sustained education
    • students from Newcastle schools and colleges were most likely to be in sustained employment
    • South Tyneside students were most likely to be in sustained apprenticeships.
  • For a destination to be "sustained" for a particular learner in 2021/22, they will have had sustained participation for a 6 month period during the academic year.

Recent trends

  • In 2021/22, the percentage of North East students in a sustained destination a year after completing 16 to 18 study was 3.8 percentage points (pp) higher than in 2020/21:
    • This increase was larger than that for England (+3.2 pp)
    • it had followed three years of decreasing percentages (by 2.2 pp overall)
    • the percentages of North East students in sustained employment and apprenticeships increased in the latest year
    • the percentage in sustained education decreased in the latest year
    • over the past four years, this percentage had a larger increase than that for sustained employment, while the apprenticeship percentage had decreased.
  • Within the North East:
    • In the latest year, the largest pp increase of students in sustained destinations had been for those from Sunderland schools and colleges
    • this percentage had increased in all seven North East local authority areas
    • over the most recent four years, the increase had been highest among North Tyneside students
    • again, the latest percentage was higher than four years earlier for all seven North East local authority areas.

Pupil characteristics

  • In 2021/22, the percentage of North East female students in a sustained destination a year after completing 16 to 18 study (81.4%) was higher than that of their male counterparts (77.2%):
    • The North East percentage point gap was slightly lower than the national equivalent
    • North East female students were more likely to be in sustained education than males
    • however, the percentages of North East males in sustained employment and apprenticeships were higher
    • within the North East, females students from schools and colleges in all seven locala authority area were more likely than males to be in a sustained destination
    • the gap was largest in Sunderland and smallest in North Tyneside.
  • In 2021/22, the percentage of North East disadvantaged students in a sustained destination a year after completing 16 to 18 study (65.6%) was much lower than for those classified as not disadvantaged (84.0%):
    • The North East percentage point gap was much higher than the national equivalent
    • the gap was particularly influenced by a low percentage of North East disadvantaged students in sustained education
    • the percentages in sustained employment and apprenticeships were also lower than for other students
    • within the North East, disdvantaged students from schools and colleges in all seven local authority area were less likely than other students to be in a sustained destination
    • the gap was largest in Northumberland and smallest in North Tyneside
    • disadvantaged students are those in year 11 who had been eligible for free school meals at any point in the previous six years; had been looked after by the local authority; or had been adopted from care.