Sta/Medr/18/2025: Consistent performance measures for post-16 learning: Learner destinations, August 2021 to July 2023

10 Dec 2025

Note

This report uses matched education data linked with the Longitudinal Education Outcomes (LEO) Study to show employment and learning destinations for further education, school sixth form and work-based learning learners in the year following their programme of study.

A separate release provides information on learner achievement.

This report highlights some of the messages in the data. The accompanying tables include the full breakdowns for all measures by all the characteristics in this article.

Main points

The overall sustained destination rate has increased slightly since 2014/15.

Figure 1: Destinations of post-16 learners, 2014/15 to 2022/23

Description: The sustained destination rate has remained relatively stable since 2014/15, increasing from 83% to 86% in 2020/21 and 2022/23.

[Note r] Previously published figures have been revised with the latest data, see the key quality information for detail.

Data in Table 1a of the accompanying spreadsheet.

Both sustained employment and sustained learning rates have increased overall from 2014/15, with sustained employment being the most common destination.

49% of learners in 2022/23 went onto a sustained learning destination, an increase from 47% in 2021/22. The sustained employment rate has dropped by 1 percentage point to 62% in 2022/23.