Sta/Medr/07/2025: Learner outcome measures for apprenticeships, August 2023 to July 2024

Note:

Adult community learning statistics have been removed from this release due to data quality issues. Please see the Quality and Methodology information for details on how the data quality issues are being investigated and will be handled.

Main points

• The success rate of apprenticeships increased in 2023/24 to 74%, it is still lower than before the Covid-19 pandemic.
• Foundation level apprenticeships showed the strongest recovery in 2023/24.
• The success rate for higher apprenticeships is much lower than for other levels and has recovered the least since the pandemic.
• Higher apprentices passed only a little over of half of the application of number essential skills activities they took.
• There were large increases in the overall success rate in the sectors of:
  • Health Care and Public Services;
  • Hospitality;
  • Leisure, Sport and Travel.
• Among the larger sectors, the success rate fell in:
  • Construction;
  • Management and Professional.
• The success rate gap between learners in the most deprived areas and least deprived areas is closing.
• There were large increases in the success rate for learners across minority ethnic backgrounds.
• Apprenticeship activities completed entirely in Welsh had a higher than average success rate.

Apprenticeship success rate by academic year

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