As part of the process for ensuring good practice within Joint Negotiating Committee (JNC) validated higher education programmes for youth and community work, The NYA carries out annual monitoring of all validated programmes.
This process not only ensures that all students are receiving a good standard of programme but also enables a picture of the developing workforce to be formed and highlights shifts and changes in trends within the demographic make-up of students and the destinations of newly qualified JNC youth and community professionals.
Who are the new recruits?
The period 2007-08 saw 1,470 new students enrol on 56 recruiting programmes, a rise of 98 students in relation to last year's figures. This year has seen a positive shift in representation within ethnic origin categories, with an increase of 4.52 per cent of students identifying themselves of mixed origin and a rise of 1.56 per cent for students who identify themselves as of black origin.
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