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Photo (left to right): Newbattle Abbey College, UHI Perth, Fife College, City of Glasgow College
The Scottish Funding Council has published its College Student Outcomes report for the academic year 2023-24. The report, previously titled ‘College Performance Indicators’, takes a sector-wide look at the performance of Scotland’s colleges and illustrates trends over the past five years.
The publication reports rates of early withdrawals (criteria laid out in SFC’s Credit Guidance for Colleges 2024-25) and rates of non-completion, a new measure which focuses on those students who did not withdraw from their course early, bringing in changes which were strongly supported in a consultation about the publication held last year.
This week’s figures show that over two thirds of full-time students (67.1% for further education and 66.9% for higher education) successfully completed their courses in the latest year. Early withdrawals are at historic lows of 4.6% for further education and 3.0% for higher education, as students at college are increasingly likely to continue their studies for longer.
Enrolments for higher education students rose by 1% (240 enrolments) and by 4.1% (1,612 enrolments) for further education full-time students.
The report also found that male students were more likely than female students to successfully complete their further education programme while the opposite was true for higher education.
Full details of all the findings in this week’s report are now available along with supporting documentation.
