What Colleges Deliver

Colleges provided learning for over 250,000 students last year. While numbers overall have fallen, there has been an increased proportion of students doing full-time courses, and an increase in the proportion of higher education delivered.

Number of Students FE/HE Split Mode of How Learning Colleges FE HE FT PT are Funded

Colleges receive a signi cant amount of public funding, distributed by the Scoish Funding Council (SFC). Approximately 25% of income is earned by other means. 2012-13 saw the introduction of a funding stream directly from the Skills Development (SDS) for the New • 16-24 year olds accounted for 70% of all hours of College Learning Programme. learning in 2011-12 • 63% of college students have no qualification on entry • 27% of all school leavers go into further education College Learners Top 10 Subject Areas Widening Access College Sta

Colleges are the most accessible route into learning for To keep skills up-to-date, those in deprived communities or with additional needs, colleges o en recruit sta with o ering an invaluable route to gaining skills, improving industry experience or look to employability or gaining a higher education. have sta seconded back into industry to ensure students are • 28% of students in colleges are from beneting from current practice. Scotland’s most deprived postcodes • During 2011-12, 3,200 students with an HND/C • 5,306 teaching sta articulated into 2nd or 3rd year full-time rst degree in colleges courses • 70% of teaching sta • 5% of all hours of learning (4.3 million hours) are full-time permanent sta and enrolments are delivered to students from minority ethnic backgrounds • 93% of full-time teaching sta have a • 13% of students have a disclosed disability recognised teaching qualication • Dyslexia is the most commonly reported disability Overseas Students Developing a 195 nationalities are Skilled Workforce represented in colleges

• 39% of working age students are studying as part of their occupation

• Care has the largest number of enrolments (over 20,000)

• 62% of engineering and construction students have links to industry

• Colleges deliver bespoke courses to employers Region College(s) Merger Argyll College Towards Date Inverness College Aberdeen College Aberdeen and Nov Lews Castle College Aberdeenshire Banff and Buchan 2013 Moray College College Regionalisation North Highland Ayr College Highlands College n/a James Watt College Aug and Islands Orkney College Ayrshire (Kilwinning Campus) 2013 Perth College Kilmarnock College Sabhal Mòr Ostaig Borders Borders College n/a Colleges are now working Shetland College Central Forth Valley College n/a towards regionalisation. West Highland Dumfries & Galloway Dumfries and n/a College ere are 13 dened Galloway College Coatbridge College n/a Edinburgh 1 Oct South Lanarkshire Edinburgh College n/a regions in which and Lothians 2012 College College Lanarkshire Cumbernauld colleges will be 1 Nov 1 Aug College 2013 expected to work SRUC (non- 2013 Motherwell College landbased element) Scotland’s Rural 1 Oct more collaboratively Land Based John Wheatley College (SRUC) 2012 in the future, allowing them College Angus College 1 Nov 1 Aug Tayside North Glasgow 2013 to plan regionally and 2013 Dundee College College Clydebank College deliver locally. e future Stow College Glasgow James Watt College 1 Aug Anniesland College West (Inverclyde Campus) 2013 college regional landscape 31 Jul Cardonald College 2013 Reid Kerr College is expected to look like this: Langside College West Lothian West Lothian n/a City of Glasgow College n/a College Newbattle Abbey n/a Other College Main sources are statistical returns by the colleges to the Scottish Funding Council. All facts correct at time of publication.

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