Statistics on participation and learner outcomes in the further education and skills sector, including apprenticeships, reported from January 2014 to date.
Added ‘Apprenticeships: July 2026’ and ‘Further education and skills: July 2026’.
Added 'Further education and skills: March 2026' and ‘Apprenticeships: March 2026’.
Added ‘Apprenticeships: January 2026’ and ‘Further education and skills: January 2026’. Moved ‘Apprenticeships: November 2025’ and ‘Further education and skills: November 2025’ to the older data sections.
Added ‘Apprenticeships: November 2025 and 'Further education and skills: November 2025. Moved ‘Apprenticeships: July 2025 and 'Further education and skills: July 2025’ to the older data sections.
Added ‘Apprenticeships: July 2025 and 'Further education and skills: July 2025. Moved ‘Apprenticeships: March 2025 and 'Further education and skills: March 2025’ to the older data sections.
Added ‘Apprenticeships in England by industry characteristics: 2022 to 2023’.
Added 'Apprenticeships: March 2025' and 'Further Education and Skills: March 2025' to latest releases.
Added 'Apprenticeships: January 2025' and 'Further Education and Skills: January 2025' to latest releases.
Added ‘Apprenticeships: November 2024’ and 'Further education and skills: November 2024’ to the collection.
Created new section for Skills Bootcamp data and added completions and outcomes.
Added ‘Apprenticeships: October 2024’ to 'Latest releases'. Moved 'Apprenticeships: September 2024' to Apprenticeships and traineeships - older data.
Added ‘Apprenticeships: September 2024’.
Added ‘Apprenticeships: August 2024’ to the collection.
Added 'Apprenticeships in England by industry characteristics: 2021 to 2022' to the 'Related releases' section.
Added ‘Apprenticeships: July 2024' and 'Further education and skills: July 2024'.
Added 'Apprenticeships: June 2024' to latest releases. Moved 'Apprenticeships: May 2024' to Apprenticeships and traineeships - older data.
Added ‘Apprenticeships: May 2024’ to the collection.
Added 'Apprenticeships: April 2024' to latest releases. Moved 'Apprenticeships: March 2024' to Apprenticeships and traineeships - older data.
Added 'Apprenticeships and 19-plus further education skills index: 2022 to 2023' to related releases.
Added 'Further education and skills: March 2024' and 'Apprenticeships: March 2024' to latest releases. Moved ' Further education and skills: January 2024' to FE and skills - older data and 'Apprenticeships: February 2024' to Apprenticeships and traineeships - older data.
Added 'Apprenticeships: February 2024' to 'Latest releases'.
Added 'Apprenticeships: January 2024' and 'Further education and skills: January 2024'
Added 'Apprenticeships and traineeships: November 2023' and 'Further education and skills: July 2023'.
Added 'Skills Bootcamps: starts 2022 to 2023'.
Added 'Apprenticeships and traineeships: October 2023' to 'Latest releases'.
Added ‘Apprenticeships and traineeships: September 2023’ to the collection.
Added 'Apprenticeships and traineeships: August 2023' to 'Latest releases'.
Added ‘Apprenticeships and traineeships: July 2023’ and 'Further education and skills: July 2023' to the collection.
Added ‘Apprenticeships and traineeships: June 2023’ to the collection.
Added ‘Apprenticeships and traineeships: May 2023’.
Added ‘Apprenticeships and traineeships: April 2023’.
Added 'Further education skills index' for 2020 to 2021 and 2021 to 2022.
Added 'Apprenticeship and traineeships: March 2023' and 'Further education and skills: March 2023'.
Added ‘Apprenticeships and traineeships: February 2023’ to the 'Latest releases' section and moved 'Apprenticeships and traineeships: January 2023' to the 'Apprenticeships and traineeships - older data’ section.
'Apprenticeship and traineeships: January 2023' and 'Further education and skills: January 2023' added to 'Latest releases' section.
Added ‘Apprenticeships and traineeships: December 2022’
Added 'Skills Bootcamps: starts 2021 to 2022 '.
Added 'Apprenticeship and traineeships: November 2022' and 'Further education and skills: November 2022'.
Added ‘Apprenticeships and traineeships: October 2022’
Added ‘Apprenticeships and traineeships: September 2022’.
Added ‘Apprenticeships and traineeships: August 2022’.
Added 'Apprenticeship and traineeships: July 2022' and 'Further education and skills: July 2022'.
Added ‘Apprenticeships and traineeships: June 2022’.
Added ‘Apprenticeships and traineeships: May 2022’.
Added ‘Apprenticeships and traineeships: April 2022’ and 'Apprenticeships in England by industry characteristics: 2020 to 2021'.
Added 'Apprenticeship and traineeships: March 2022' and 'Further education and skills: March 2022'.
Added ‘Apprenticeships and traineeships: February 2022’.
Added 'Apprenticeship and traineeships: January 2022' and 'Further education and skills: January 2022'.
Added ‘Apprenticeships and traineeships: December 2021’.
Added 'Apprenticeship and traineeships: November 2021' and 'Further education and skills: November 2021'.
Added ‘Apprenticeships and traineeships: October 2021’.
Added ‘Apprenticeships and traineeships: August 2021’ to the collection.
Added 'Apprenticeships and traineeships: July 2021' and 'Further education and skills: July 2021'.
Added ‘Apprenticeships and traineeships: June 2021’ to the collection.
Added ‘Apprenticeships and traineeships: May 2021’ to the collection.
Added ‘Apprenticeships and traineeships: April 2021’ to the collection.
Added 'Apprenticeships and traineeships: March 2021' and 'Further education and skills: March 2021'.
Added ‘Apprenticeships and traineeships: February 2021’ to the collection.
Added 'Apprenticeships and traineeships: January 2021' and 'Further education and skills: January 2021'.
Added 'Apprenticeships and traineeships: December 2020'.
Added 'Apprenticeship and traineeships: November 2020' and 'Further education and skills: November 2020'.
Added 'Apprenticeships and traineeships: October 2020'.
Added 'Apprenticeships and traineeships: August 2020' to the collection.
Added 'Apprenticeships and traineeships: July 2020'.
Added 'Further education and skills: July 2020' to the collection.
Added 'Apprenticeships and traineeships: June 2020' to the collection.
Added 'Apprenticeships and traineeships: May 2020' to the collection.
Added ‘Apprenticeships and traineeships: April 2020’ to the collection along with an update on publications in light of the COVID-19 outbreak.
Added ‘Further education and skills: March 2020’ and ‘Apprenticeships and traineeships: March 2020'. Added 'Further Education for Benefit Claimants, England: 2017 to 2018' and removed the 2016 to 2017 release.
Replaced 'Apprenticeships in England by industry characteristics' with the latest version 'Apprenticeships in England by industry characteristics 2018 to 2019'.
Added ‘Apprenticeships and traineeships: February 2020'.
Added ‘Further education and skills: January 2020’ and ‘Apprenticeships and traineeships: January 2020’ to the collection.
Added Further education and skills: November 2019 to Latest releases.
Added Apprenticeship and levy statistics: October 2019 to the Apprenticeships and levy - older data
Added Further education and skills: March 2019 to the FE and skills - older data
Added Public sector apprenticeships in England: 2017 to 2018 to new section Public sector apprenticeships in England - older data
Updated the page to indicate forthcoming changes to our statistics publication.
Added Apprenticeship and levy statistics: October 2019
Added 'Apprenticeship and levy statistics: August 2019' to latest releases.
Added 'Apprenticeship and levy statistics: July 2019' to latest releases. Moved May 2019 release to older data group.
Added 'Apprenticeship and traineeships: July 2019'.
Added 'Apprenticeship and levy statistics: May 2019'.
Added 'Apprenticeship and levy statistics: April 2019'.
Added 'Apprenticeship and levy statistics: March 2019' and 'Further education and skills: March 2019 to latest releases.
Added 'Apprenticeship and levy statistics: February 2019'.
Added 'Apprenticeship and levy statistics: January 2019'.
Added 'Apprenticeship and traineeships: January 2019' to latest releases.
Added Apprenticeship and levy statistics: December 2018 to latest releases. Moved Apprenticeship and levy statistics: November 2018 to older data.
Added 'Further education and skills: November 2018' and 'Apprenticeship and levy statistics: November 2018' to latest releases.
Added 'Public sector apprenticeships in England: 2017 to 2018'.
Added 'Apprenticeship and levy statistics: October 2018' to the collection.
Added 'Apprenticeship and levy statistics: September 2018' to the collection.
Added 'Apprenticeship and levy statistics: August 2018' to the collection
Added the 'Apprenticeship and levy statistics: July 2018' and 'Apprenticeships and traineeships: July 2018' publications.
Added 'Apprenticeship and levy statistics: June 2018' to the collection.
Added 'Apprenticeship and levy statistics: May 2018' to the collection and updated the introductory section to explain publication changes.
Added 'Apprenticeship and levy statistics: April 2018' along with amended contact details.
Added 'Further education and skills: March 2018' and 'Apprenticeship and levy statistics: March 2018' to the collection.
February 2018 release showing the latest monthly apprenticeship service registrations and commitments and monthly apprenticeship starts for 2017 to 2018 academic year.
Added 'Apprenticeships and traineeships: January 2018' and 'Apprenticeship and levy statistics: January 2018' to the collection.
Apprenticeship service registrations and commitments to October 2017
Added 'Further education and skills: November 2017', which includes information about planned changes to this and other further education statistics releases.
Change to include latest statistics from the apprenticeship service which includes registered apprenticeship service accounts and commitments, reported to 30 September 2017.
Added 'Further education and skills: October 2017'.
Added 'Apprenticeship service registrations and commitments: August 2017'.
Added apprenticeship service statistics to 31 July 2017.
Apprenticeship service registrations and commitments to June 2017 added.
Added a request for feedback as part of a development review for the statistical first release.
Added 'Further education and skills: July 2017' and 'Apprenticeship service registrations and commitments to May 2017'.
Update to include the March 2017 SFR
Updated to include January 2017 release on 26 January 2017.
Further education and skills: November 2016 added to collection on 17 November 2016.
New page titled Further education and skills: statistical first release October 2016 added to collection on 6 October 2016.
First published.
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Latest releases
The most recent statistics covering apprenticeship starts, apprenticeship service registrations, learner participation and achievements in the further education and skills sector.