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Overview

An infographic that highlights key statistics from the publication. It shows the total number of qualifiers with a known destination and those who left the college sector. It also shows a range of percentages for Sector Leavers who entered postive or negative destinations.

Excutive Summary

  1. This is the tenth Scottish Funding Council (SFC) College Leaver Destinations publication, providing updated statistics on the destinations of full-time qualifiers from Scotland’s colleges. Most of this report focuses on qualifiers that have left the college sector. The Annex document provides additional context and metadata.

  2. For 2022-23, SFC had confirmed destinations for 89.0% of full-time qualifiers. 39.2% of those with known destinations were sector leavers, with the other 60.8% continuing their study at college. Of those that were sector leavers, 86.7% went onto positive destinations. This was a 0.7pp increase from the previous year.

College Leaver Destinations

Qualifiers

Figure 1: Full-Time Qualifiers 2015-16 to 2022-23 from Scotland’s Colleges

Academic Year Continuing College Study Sector Leaver Confirmed Destination Unconfirmed Destination All Qualifiers
2015-16 26,121 18,062 44,183 6,499 50,682
2016-17 25,715 19,001 44,716 5,582 50,298
2017-18 26,206 19,314 45,520 5,290 50,810
2018-19 25,806 17,484 43,290 5,334 48,624
2019-20 24,662 16,334 40,996 4,915 45,911
2020-21 23,079 16,653 39,732 5,838 45,570
2021-22 20,508 15,469 35,977 4,634 40,611
2022-23 22,202 14,301 36,503 4,496 40,999