Sta/Medr/06/2026: Learner outcome measures for apprenticeships and adult community learning, August 2024 to July 2025

Notes

Worksheet 1.1 was revised on 11 June 2026. The data for 7 apprenticeship frameworks were split across multiple rows. This is because there were multiple ID codes for the same framework so they weren’t fully aggregated. The data has been corrected. Affected frameworks have been marked with an [r].

In response to needs of the sector an sector subject area breakdown has been added (Worksheet_1_1b).

Main points

Apprenticeships

• The success rate of apprenticeships increased by 2 percentage points in 2024/25 to 77%, it remains lower than before the Covid-19 pandemic.
• Higher apprenticeships showed the strongest recovery in 2024/25.
• Among the larger sectors, there was an increased success rate in:
  • Management and professional;
  • Business administration;
  • Health care and public services.
• The only sectors to see the success rate fall were:
  • Construction;
  • Engineering.
• The success rate gap between learners in the most deprived areas and least deprived areas has closed to 2 percentage points.
• The success rate for learners with disabilities and/or learning difficulties was 6 percentage points lower than learners with no disability and/or learning difficulty.
• Apprenticeship activities completed bilingually and in English had similar outcomes.
• The success rate for older age groups increased, whereas the success rate for younger age groups stagnated.

Apprenticeship success rate by academic year

Figure 1: August 2015 to July 2025

Description: The apprenticeship success rate continues to recover post-pandemic. A gap still exists between the current success rate and pre-pandemic success rates.
(Data on StatsWales)

Adult community learning

• The completion rate for adult community learning activities increased from 95% in 2023/24 to 96% in 2024/25.
• The success rate for assessable adult community learning activities remained at 87% in 2024/25, the first time it has not increased post-pandemic.
• The sectors that saw the largest increase in overall success rates were:
  • History, Philosophy and Theology;
  • Construction, Planning and the Built Environment.
• Sectors that saw the largest fall in success rates were:
  • Independent Living Skills;
  • Engineering and Manufacturing Technologies.
• Learning delivered by local authorities via a franchise arrangement with a further education (FE) institution saw the largest increase in success rate, although it remained the lowest provision type.

Adult learning success rate by academic year

Figure 2: August 2015 to July 2025

Description: The adult community learning success rate stopped increasing for the first time post-pandemic. The completion rate has recovered to pre-pandemic levels.
(Data on StatsWales)