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Learners in further education, apprenticeships and community learning by provider, provision type and demographic information

Table

Standard shorthand is used in this table: [c] = confidential information.

Data values	Data description	Academic year	Provision type	Provider	Age group	Gender	Demographic measure	Demographic value
161,920	Number of learners	2024-25	Total	Total	All ages	All learners	Total	Total
39,360	Number of learners	2024-25	Total	Total	All ages	All learners	Deprivation of home neighbourhood	1st (most deprived 20%)
34,495	Number of learners	2024-25	Total	Total	All ages	All learners	Deprivation of home neighbourhood	2nd
31,645	Number of learners	2024-25	Total	Total	All ages	All learners	Deprivation of home neighbourhood	3rd
28,510	Number of learners	2024-25	Total	Total	All ages	All learners	Deprivation of home neighbourhood	4th
24,770	Number of learners	2024-25	Total	Total	All ages	All learners	Deprivation of home neighbourhood	5th (least deprived 20%)
3,720	Number of learners	2024-25	Total	Total	All ages	All learners	Deprivation of home neighbourhood	Unknown
18,635	Number of learners	2024-25	Total	Total	All ages	All learners	Ever free school meal (FSM) eligible	Ever FSM
49,530	Number of learners	2024-25	Total	Total	All ages	All learners	Ever free school meal (FSM) eligible	Never FSM
93,810	Number of learners	2024-25	Total	Total	All ages	All learners	Ever free school meal (FSM) eligible	Unknown
7,430	Number of learners	2024-25	Total	Total	All ages	All learners	Ethnic background	Asian, Asian British, Asian Welsh
6,530	Number of learners	2024-25	Total	Total	All ages	All learners	Ethnic background	Black, African, Caribbean, Black British, Black Welsh
3,320	Number of learners	2024-25	Total	Total	All ages	All learners	Ethnic background	Mixed, Multiple ethnic groups
132,955	Number of learners	2024-25	Total	Total	All ages	All learners	Ethnic background	White
3,800	Number of learners	2024-25	Total	Total	All ages	All learners	Ethnic background	Other ethnic groups
9,385	Number of learners	2024-25	Total	Total	All ages	All learners	Ethnic background	Information refused / not known
2,045	Number of learners	2024-25	Total	Total	All ages	All learners	Detailed ethnic background	Indian
1,150	Number of learners	2024-25	Total	Total	All ages	All learners	Detailed ethnic background	Pakistani
1,460	Number of learners	2024-25	Total	Total	All ages	All learners	Detailed ethnic background	Bangladeshi
615	Number of learners	2024-25	Total	Total	All ages	All learners	Detailed ethnic background	Chinese
2,180	Number of learners	2024-25	Total	Total	All ages	All learners	Detailed ethnic background	Any other Asian background
5,710	Number of learners	2024-25	Total	Total	All ages	All learners	Detailed ethnic background	African
270	Number of learners	2024-25	Total	Total	All ages	All learners	Detailed ethnic background	Caribbean
580	Number of learners	2024-25	Total	Total	All ages	All learners	Detailed ethnic background	Any other Black, Black Welsh, Black British, African or Caribbean background
570	Number of learners	2024-25	Total	Total	All ages	All learners	Detailed ethnic background	White and Black African
780	Number of learners	2024-25	Total	Total	All ages	All learners	Detailed ethnic background	White and Black Caribbean
830	Number of learners	2024-25	Total	Total	All ages	All learners	Detailed ethnic background	White and Asian
1,155	Number of learners	2024-25	Total	Total	All ages	All learners	Detailed ethnic background	Any other Mixed or Multiple background
122,365	Number of learners	2024-25	Total	Total	All ages	All learners	Detailed ethnic background	White Welsh / English / Scottish / Northern Irish / British
80	Number of learners	2024-25	Total	Total	All ages	All learners	Detailed ethnic background	Gypsy, Traveller or Irish Traveller
35	Number of learners	2024-25	Total	Total	All ages	All learners	Detailed ethnic background	Roma
3,615	Number of learners	2024-25	Total	Total	All ages	All learners	Detailed ethnic background	White unknown
7,365	Number of learners	2024-25	Total	Total	All ages	All learners	Detailed ethnic background	Any other White background
3,800	Number of learners	2024-25	Total	Total	All ages	All learners	Detailed ethnic background	Any Other ethnic group
9,385	Number of learners	2024-25	Total	Total	All ages	All learners	Detailed ethnic background	Unknown or not given
25,435	Number of learners	2024-25	Total	Total	All ages	All learners	Learning difficulty or impairment status	Learning difficulty or impairment
138,080	Number of learners	2024-25	Total	Total	All ages	All learners	Learning difficulty or impairment status	No learning difficulty or impairment
740	Number of learners	2024-25	Total	Total	All ages	All learners	Primary learning difficulty or impairment	Visual impairment
1,225	Number of learners	2024-25	Total	Total	All ages	All learners	Primary learning difficulty or impairment	Hearing impairment
3,975	Number of learners	2024-25	Total	Total	All ages	All learners	Primary learning difficulty or impairment	Physical and / or medical difficulties
1,870	Number of learners	2024-25	Total	Total	All ages	All learners	Primary learning difficulty or impairment	Behavioural, emotional and social difficulties
135	Number of learners	2024-25	Total	Total	All ages	All learners	Primary learning difficulty or impairment	Multi-sensory impairment
4,485	Number of learners	2024-25	Total	Total	All ages	All learners	Primary learning difficulty or impairment	Autistic spectrum disorders
1,030	Number of learners	2024-25	Total	Total	All ages	All learners	Primary learning difficulty or impairment	Speech, language and communication difficulties
1,730	Number of learners	2024-25	Total	Total	All ages	All learners	Primary learning difficulty or impairment	Moderate / general learning difficulties
350	Number of learners	2024-25	Total	Total	All ages	All learners	Primary learning difficulty or impairment	Severe learning difficulties
95	Number of learners	2024-25	Total	Total	All ages	All learners	Primary learning difficulty or impairment	Profound and multiple learning difficulties
6,875	Number of learners	2024-25	Total	Total	All ages	All learners	Primary learning difficulty or impairment	Dyslexia
275	Number of learners	2024-25	Total	Total	All ages	All learners	Primary learning difficulty or impairment	Dyscalculia
470	Number of learners	2024-25	Total	Total	All ages	All learners	Primary learning difficulty or impairment	Dyspraxia
2,435	Number of learners	2024-25	Total	Total	All ages	All learners	Primary learning difficulty or impairment	Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
130	Number of learners	2024-25	Total	Total	All ages	All learners	Primary learning difficulty or impairment	Not known
575	Number of learners	2024-25	Total	Total	All ages	All learners	Primary learning difficulty or impairment	Information refused
137,530	Number of learners	2024-25	Total	Total	All ages	All learners	Primary learning difficulty or impairment	Does not apply
74,230	Number of learners	2024-25	Total	Total	All ages	Male	Total	Total
17,510	Number of learners	2024-25	Total	Total	All ages	Male	Deprivation of home neighbourhood	1st (most deprived 20%)
15,710	Number of learners	2024-25	Total	Total	All ages	Male	Deprivation of home neighbourhood	2nd
14,615	Number of learners	2024-25	Total	Total	All ages	Male	Deprivation of home neighbourhood	3rd
12,990	Number of learners	2024-25	Total	Total	All ages	Male	Deprivation of home neighbourhood	4th
11,470	Number of learners	2024-25	Total	Total	All ages	Male	Deprivation of home neighbourhood	5th (least deprived 20%)
2,200	Number of learners	2024-25	Total	Total	All ages	Male	Deprivation of home neighbourhood	Unknown
9,360	Number of learners	2024-25	Total	Total	All ages	Male	Ever free school meal (FSM) eligible	Ever FSM
26,650	Number of learners	2024-25	Total	Total	All ages	Male	Ever free school meal (FSM) eligible	Never FSM
38,240	Number of learners	2024-25	Total	Total	All ages	Male	Ever free school meal (FSM) eligible	Unknown
3,200	Number of learners	2024-25	Total	Total	All ages	Male	Ethnic background	Asian, Asian British, Asian Welsh
3,000	Number of learners	2024-25	Total	Total	All ages	Male	Ethnic background	Black, African, Caribbean, Black British, Black Welsh
1,555	Number of learners	2024-25	Total	Total	All ages	Male	Ethnic background	Mixed, Multiple ethnic groups
61,740	Number of learners	2024-25	Total	Total	All ages	Male	Ethnic background	White
1,715	Number of learners	2024-25	Total	Total	All ages	Male	Ethnic background	Other ethnic groups
3,480	Number of learners	2024-25	Total	Total	All ages	Male	Ethnic background	Information refused / not known
990	Number of learners	2024-25	Total	Total	All ages	Male	Detailed ethnic background	Indian
510	Number of learners	2024-25	Total	Total	All ages	Male	Detailed ethnic background	Pakistani
600	Number of learners	2024-25	Total	Total	All ages	Male	Detailed ethnic background	Bangladeshi
210	Number of learners	2024-25	Total	Total	All ages	Male	Detailed ethnic background	Chinese
895	Number of learners	2024-25	Total	Total	All ages	Male	Detailed ethnic background	Any other Asian background
2,555	Number of learners	2024-25	Total	Total	All ages	Male	Detailed ethnic background	African
155	Number of learners	2024-25	Total	Total	All ages	Male	Detailed ethnic background	Caribbean
300	Number of learners	2024-25	Total	Total	All ages	Male	Detailed ethnic background	Any other Black, Black Welsh, Black British, African or Caribbean background
270	Number of learners	2024-25	Total	Total	All ages	Male	Detailed ethnic background	White and Black African
360	Number of learners	2024-25	Total	Total	All ages	Male	Detailed ethnic background	White and Black Caribbean
385	Number of learners	2024-25	Total	Total	All ages	Male	Detailed ethnic background	White and Asian
545	Number of learners	2024-25	Total	Total	All ages	Male	Detailed ethnic background	Any other Mixed or Multiple background
57,335	Number of learners	2024-25	Total	Total	All ages	Male	Detailed ethnic background	White Welsh / English / Scottish / Northern Irish / British
40	Number of learners	2024-25	Total	Total	All ages	Male	Detailed ethnic background	Gypsy, Traveller or Irish Traveller
20	Number of learners	2024-25	Total	Total	All ages	Male	Detailed ethnic background	Roma
1,625	Number of learners	2024-25	Total	Total	All ages	Male	Detailed ethnic background	White unknown
2,945	Number of learners	2024-25	Total	Total	All ages	Male	Detailed ethnic background	Any other White background
1,715	Number of learners	2024-25	Total	Total	All ages	Male	Detailed ethnic background	Any Other ethnic group
3,480	Number of learners	2024-25	Total	Total	All ages	Male	Detailed ethnic background	Unknown or not given
12,065	Number of learners	2024-25	Total	Total	All ages	Male	Learning difficulty or impairment status	Learning difficulty or impairment
62,825	Number of learners	2024-25	Total	Total	All ages	Male	Learning difficulty or impairment status	No learning difficulty or impairment
340	Number of learners	2024-25	Total	Total	All ages	Male	Primary learning difficulty or impairment	Visual impairment
480	Number of learners	2024-25	Total	Total	All ages	Male	Primary learning difficulty or impairment	Hearing impairment
1,410	Number of learners	2024-25	Total	Total	All ages	Male	Primary learning difficulty or impairment	Physical and / or medical difficulties
665	Number of learners	2024-25	Total	Total	All ages	Male	Primary learning difficulty or impairment	Behavioural, emotional and social difficulties
65	Number of learners	2024-25	Total	Total	All ages	Male	Primary learning difficulty or impairment	Multi-sensory impairment
2,655	Number of learners	2024-25	Total	Total	All ages	Male	Primary learning difficulty or impairment	Autistic spectrum disorders
605	Number of learners	2024-25	Total	Total	All ages	Male	Primary learning difficulty or impairment	Speech, language and communication difficulties
975	Number of learners	2024-25	Total	Total	All ages	Male	Primary learning difficulty or impairment	Moderate / general learning difficulties
190	Number of learners	2024-25	Total	Total	All ages	Male	Primary learning difficulty or impairment	Severe learning difficulties

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Metadata

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Next update expected:March 2026

Updates

• 26th February 2026: Dataset first published.

Main information

• Designation: Official statistics
• Data provider 1: Welsh Government
• Data source 1: Welsh Index of Multiple Deprivation (WIMD)
• Data provider 2: Welsh Government
• Data source 2: Post-16 Pupil Level Annual School Census (PLASC)
• Data provider 3: Welsh Government
• Data source 3: Lifelong Learning Wales Record (LLWR)

Overview

• Summary of dataset and variables:

  Learners taking further education in colleges, local authority community learning, or apprenticeships.

  Higher education, degree apprenticeships and sixth forms are not included.

  The dataset contains the following variables:

  Academic year: Runs from 1st August to 31st July.

  Provision type: Further education includes learners studying A levels and other general qualifications, as well as learners studying vocational qualifications (for example BTECs). A learner is counted as in part-time further education if they have taken no full-time further education at the provider. Local authority community learning is community learning delivered by local authorities, it includes learning contracted in from a further education institution.

  Provider: The lead provider of the learning. If a provider has merged, historical data includes all previous providers. Historical providers are providers that don't exist as lead providers in the most recent year.

  Age group: Age of the learner at 31st August of the academic year.

  Gender: It is displayed as it is collected in the data, but this does not follow best practice. We will evaluate how gender and/or sex should be collected in the Lifelong Learning Record Wales (LLWR).

  Demographic measure: Types of characteristic information.

  Demographic value: The individual characteristics of the demographic measure.

  Deprivation of home neighbourhood: The Welsh Index of Multiple Deprivation (WIMD) quintile of the area based on the learner's postcode.

  Ever free school meal (FSM) eligible: Eligibility for free school meals is a proxy measure for an individual’s experience of deprivation. A learner is defined in this report as “ever eligible for Free School meals” if they were eligible for free school meals at any point during secondary school in Wales. If they were not eligible in any year of secondary school in Wales they are described as ‘never eligible for Free School meals’. Learners who could not be matched to a secondary school record in Wales are categorised as unknown.

  Ethnic background: Categorised by 5 broad groups, and 18 sub-groups.

  Learning difficulty or impairment: Learning difficulty or impairment types only relate to learners with a learning difficulty or impairment that impacts on their ability to learn and/or use facilities of a kind generally supplied by the learning provider, and are based on the learner's own assessment of their health.

• Data collection or calculation:

  The Lifelong Learning Wales Record is the data collection system employed by the Welsh Government to enable FE, WBL and local authority community earning providers to submit on-line individualised data on learners, their learning programmes, activities and awards.

  Welsh Government systems load the data on to a database to facilitate analysis. The database is then transferred to Medr for processing and analysing. Further information on LLWR including user support manuals can be found on the Welsh Government’s website.

  The data used in these statistics is extracted from the LLWR on the Thursday of the third full week of December.

  The primary purpose of the LLWR is to provide FE/WBL/local authority community learning data to facilitate the planning and funding of learning delivery. The LLWR data are also a basis for monitoring of performance and outcomes, informing strategy and development and the provision of statistics on FE/WBL/local authority community learning in Wales.

• Statistical quality:

  Statisticians within Medr review the data and query any anomalies with the LLWR data collection team and, where relevant, with learning providers before tables are published. The LLWR data underlying this table are intended to be final, for non-funding purposes.

• Rounding applied:

  All figures in the table have been rounded to the closest multiple of 5. All non-zero values less than 5 have been suppressed and are denoted by [c].

• Related reports:
  • medr.cymru/en/statistics/

Published by

• Organisation: Medr
• Contact email: statistics@medr.cymru