Education and Skills

This page brings together our work on statistics relating to schools, further and higher education, training, and skills. It covers topics such as attainment, qualifications, attendance and participation, and apprenticeship and vocational training.

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OSR undertakes important review of Key Stage 4 Statistics

The Office for Statistics Regulation (OSR) has today published a review of the Key Stage 4 (KS4) performance statistics produced…

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OSR champions improvements to Children and Young People statistics  

The Office for Statistics Regulation has today published a review of children and young people statistics, Visibility, Vulnerability and Voice:…

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Compliance review of pupil suspensions and expulsions in Northern Ireland statistics 

Overview At the time of this report, statistics on pupil suspensions and expulsions in Northern Ireland are published as official…

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Assessment of statistics on higher education, further education, apprenticeships and adult community learning in Wales

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Assessment of compliance with the Code of Practice for Statistics: Higher Education Graduate Outcomes Data and Statistics

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Assessment of compliance with the Code of Practice for Statistics: Achievement of Curriculum for Excellence Levels statistics

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Ed Humpherson to Pippa Hebborn-Gibson: Accredited Official Statistics status for Participation Measures in Higher Education

Dear Pippa, Request to cancel Accredited Official Statistics status for Participation Measures in Higher Education Thank you for your letter on 20 August outlining the changes to the presentation and methodology of the Cohort-based Higher Education Participation (CHEP) statistics published…

Ed Humpherson to Alastair McAlpine: Alternative Release Time for Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) statistics

Dear Alastair, Alternative Release Time for Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) statistics Thank you for your letter requesting an alternative release time for the publication of the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) 2025 National Report for Scotland. You…

Anna Price to Gemma Thomson: Compliance review of pupil suspensions and expulsions in Northern Ireland statistics 

Dear Gemma, Compliance review of pupil suspensions and expulsions in Northern Ireland statistics We have completed a compliance review of pupil suspensions and expulsions statistics produced by the Department of Education (DE) against the standards of the Code of Practice…

Penny Young to Julie James MS: Welsh apprenticeships

Dear Julie James MS  Thank you for your letter of 26 March, which responds to my previous letter, on the use of statistics to monitor progress against the Welsh Government’s target of creating 100,000 apprenticeships in this Senedd term.  In this case, the relevant official…