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1 HMIE Reviews of Quality and Standards in Further Education: An Overview: Academic Years 2000-01 to 2003-04, February 2005 www.hmie.gov.uk
2 http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2004/09/19872/42430
3 http://www.scotland.gov.uk/library5/enterprise/sssen-01.asp
4 http://www.scotland.gov.uk/library5/lifelong/llsm-00.asp
5 http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2006/06/12094904/0
6 http://www.scotland.gov.uk/2006/06/13100205/0
7 http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2003/03/16755/19954
8 Scotland's Colleges are colleges of further and higher education in Scotland. They are the colleges formerly funded by the Scottish Further Education Funding Council (now funded by the Scottish Further and Higher Education Funding Council).
9 Source: Association of Scotland's Colleges http://www.ascol.org.uk/pdf/keyfacts2003.pdf
10 http://www.sfc.ac.uk/publications/pubs_other_sfefcarchive/initiating_adopting_building.pdf
11 Some students may be enrolled studying by more than one mode. These students are therefore included in each category of study.
12 Funding Council grants include programme funds from the Council such as core recurrent grant and fee waiver grant but exclude funds to allow college to provide bursaries to students and a small amount of one off non-recurring current resources provided during the academic year.
13 Other income includes residences and catering, European income that does not fall into the other categories, and income generating activities.
14 Labour Force Survey, winter 04-05
15 76.9% of disabled people (of working age) with no qualifications were unemployed in 2005, compared to 38.3% of non-disabled people with no qualifications (Labour Force Survey Spring 1998-2005, not seasonally adjusted)
16 The Beattie Committee was set up in 1998 to take forward the Executive's commitment to promote the participation and attainment of young people in learning post-school and to improve their employability. Its report, Implementing Inclusiveness, Realising Potential was published in 1999. A copy of the report can be found on the Scottish Executive's website at http://www.scotland.gov.uk/library2/doc04/bere00.htm.
17 http://www.hm-treasury.gov.uk/independent_reviews/leitch_review/review_leitch_index.cfm
18 The Economics of knowledge: Why education is key for Europe's success by Andreas Schleicher can be found on the OECD website at http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/43/11/36278531.pdf
19 http://www.hm-treasury.gov.uk/independent_reviews/leitch_review/review_leitch_index.cfm
20 http://www.sfc.ac.uk/library/06854fc203db2fbd00000106ee833b1f/student_survey_report.pdf
21 Employer Engagement with Further Education can be found at http://www.futureskillsscotland.org.uk/web/site/home/Reports/WhatEmployersThink/Report_Employer_Engagement_with_Further_Education_1.asp
22 This may represent to some extent the age maturity of the student
23 If workplaces had given either " FE colleges do not offer appropriate training in terms of subject area" or " FE colleges do not offer suitable training in terms of mode of delivery (e.g. no part-time courses, no block release courses, etc.)" as the reason for not using colleges to deliver training, then they were further asked whether or not they had investigated the course provision on offer at local colleges.
- 40% of workplaces which had given either of these responses said that they had investigated local college provision either through internet searches or by contacting the colleges directly.
- 56% stated that they had not investigated whether suitable or appropriate training was available through an FE college.
24 http://www.mori.com/ontrack/
25 School Pupils' Attitudes To Further Education, 2004http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2004/10/20040/44569
26 The wider benefits of further education: practitioner viewshttp://www.learningbenefits.net/Publications/ResRepIntros/ResRep1intro.htm
27 Higher Education in Scotland: A Base Line Report by Scottish Higher Education Funding Council, July 2004, a copy of which can be found on the Council's website at http://www.shefc.ac.uk/publications/baseline/baseline.html
28 For me or not for me in Scotland? A report of mature student participation in higher education - Osborne, M., Brink, B., Cloonan, M., Davies. P. Marks, A., Turner, E. and Williams, J. (2001)
29 The On Track survey found that "relatively small proportions of learners [college and university] say they do no work or work experience at all during term-time (15 %)". The study can be found at http://www.mori.com/ontrack/
30 That is Student Units of Measurement 'weighted' according to the to HE study divided by 15 (the number of units in a full-time HE resources needs of particular types of courses. course). No value has been given to unfunded activity.
31 Student FTEs are based on the number of funded SUMs attributable to FE study divided by 21 (the number of units in a full time FE course) and the number of funded SUMs attributable
32 HMT "The Green Book" section 5.76
33 For the purpose of this analysis the SVQ framework has been used with Standard Grades and SCE Highers or equivalent identified separately
34 44,139 represents the number of records with a valid (in this analysis SVQ 1 through 5 plus Higher and Standard Grade) exit qualification when the restriction on entry qualifications is relaxed. The equivalent number from the original data (21,663) is subtracted to avoid double counting
35 We are assuming here that the difference in earnings is related to earnings and not some unobserved characteristic
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