Apprentices: Degrees

(asked on 30th January 2020) - View Source

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many degree apprenticeships were (a) started (b) completed in academic year 2018-19.


Answered by
Michelle Donelan Portrait
Michelle Donelan
Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology
This question was answered on 7th February 2020

In the 2018/19 academic year, there were 13,590 apprenticeship starts and 330 apprenticeship achievements on degree apprenticeships. The data source for this information is the Individualised Learner Record (ILR).

Apprenticeship starts on degree apprenticeships, as well as additional breakdowns, are published at the following link:

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/861550/201920_January_MonthlyAppStartsFwk.xlsx.

Numbers are a count of the number of starts at any point during 2018/19. Learners starting or achieving more than one apprenticeship will appear more than once. Apprenticeship starts and achievements include all funded and unfunded learners reported on the ILR.

Degree apprenticeships include apprenticeship standards on the Institute for Apprenticeships’ 'Search the Apprenticeship Standards' website with an Integrated Degree status of ‘Integrated Degree’ or ‘Non-Integrated Degree', which can be searched here: www.instituteforapprenticeships.org/apprenticeship-standards/.

Some apprentices may be on an apprenticeship that does not mandate a degree but where the apprentice may achieve a degree as part of their employer’s particular apprenticeship programme. In these cases, we do not count these apprenticeships as a degree apprenticeship, as the degree is not mandatory. However, it does mean we may miss reporting some apprentices who achieved a degree.

Apprenticeship starts and achievements statistics should not be used to measure percentage progress within a year as they are independent performance metrics. Typically, apprenticeships can take 2 years to complete.

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