"This is part of the process for ensuring good practice within Joint Negotiating Committee (JNC)-validated higher education programmes," said Amanda Fearn, workforce development officer at The NYA. "It also enables a picture of the developing workforce to be formed and highlights shifts and changes within the make up of students and the destinations of newly qualified JNC youth and community professionals."
Major findings for the year 2006/07 show that 1,398 new students enrolled on programmes, and 35 per cent were male, down from 40 per cent the previous year. There continues to be a spread across the age range, with a slight drop in the 30-34 category and a slight increase in the under-21s. Ethnicity of new students is still predominately white, yet there is increased representation across all other categories, with the second highest percentage being from black and black British origin. Just over half of students entered an undergraduate programme with A-levels, with the remaining 49 per cent showing a spread across NVQ/Ramp or other qualifications on entry.
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