Education and training statistics for the UK

This release compiles information on education systems across the United Kingdom. Education is devolved in the UK, so each part of the United Kingdom has a separate education system.
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In this release, there are sections focusing on the school system: numbers of schools, pupils and teachers, and pupil to teacher ratios (PTRs) ?(show glossary term definition), covering the 2023/24 academic year ?(show glossary term definition).
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This is followed by sections on further and higher education, which includes the number of providers and the number of students for the 2022/23 academic year. There is also a section on young adults (aged between 16-24) who are not in education, employment or training (NEET) ?(show glossary term definition).
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The next sections focus on students' qualifications taken in the 2022/23 academic year (although given the different qualifications systems, headline measures and responses to the COVID-19 pandemic, it is not suitable to present a direct comparative picture of pupil performance across the UK), as well as the highest qualifications held by adults (aged 19-64) in the UK as of quarter 4 2023.
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Finally, there is a section showing government education expenditure in the UK to the 2023-24 financial year. ?(show glossary term definition)

For the sections covering NEET and highest qualifications for adults aged 19-64, data is used from the Office for National Statistics' (ONS) Labour Force Survey to produce these statistics. ONS have faced challenges around the falling number of responses to the LFS, which has led to increased sampling variability.
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This has increased the volatility in the estimates of employment, unemployment, and economic inactivity. Data has been reweighted from July 2022 onwards. Comparisons of levels prior to this period should therefore be viewed with caution.