Question to the Department for Education:

To ask Her Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of the impact of university technical colleges on improving the supply of British workers with high quality science, technology, engineering and mathematics skills, and in reducing the skills shortages experienced by UK businesses.

We know that university technical colleges (UTCs) can be a popular choice with young people who want to follow a technical curriculum and we anticipate that as UTCs become more established and more young people choose to attend them, they will help to meet the needs of our science, technology and engineering industries. At full capacity, the UTCs currently open or in development will offer around 35,000 places for young people to help them gain skills for the world of work.

The UTC programme is relatively new and the destination data we hold is limited. Key Stage 4 and Key Stage 5 destination data for all schools is available at:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/destinations-of-ks4-and-ks5-pupils-2015-provisional