Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the gender split is in University Technical Colleges in (a) Sheffield and (b) England and Wales among students.
The ‘schools, pupils and their characteristics’ Statistical First Release contains data on the gender split in schools in the 2016/2017 academic year and is available at the following link:
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/schools-pupils-and-their-characteristics-january-2017.
This data only covers schools in England, as education is a devolved matter. There are no University Technical Colleges (UTCs) in Wales.
The data for University Technical Colleges show the following:
a) Sheffield
| Boys | Girls |
UTC Sheffield (opened 2013) | 365 | 80 |
UTC Sheffield Olympic Legacy Park (opened 2016) | 65 | 65 |
Total | 430 | 145 |
b) England
Number of UTCs | 48 |
Boys | 8,158 |
Girls | 2,874 |