Written Question · S2W-17153 · Session 2
How many students attended further education colleges, broken down into full and part-time students, how much capital and revenue support w…
The question
To ask the Scottish Executive how many students attended further education colleges, broken down into full and part-time students, how much capital and revenue support was provided to further education colleges, including the amount of money ring-fenced for specific purposes and how many further education colleges showed a financial deficit and how much each such deficit was in each of the last six years and what the planned levels of financial support for further education colleges in Scotland are for the next three years.
The answer
A table showing enrolment datafor students attending colleges for the years 2003-04 has been placed in the Scottish Parliament Information Centre (Bib. number 36788). Collection of statisticsrelating to further education colleges is the responsibility of the Scottish FurtherEducation Funding Council (SFEFC). It collects data on enrolments at further educationcolleges but not numbers of students.
Thefunding councils’ joint corporate plan gives details of the overall support providedto FE colleges since 2004-05 and planned level of support until 2007-08 see AnnexA of this document:
http://www.sfc.ac.uk/joint_info/publications/sfc_joint_corporate_plan_2003-06.pdf.
Thisis detailed by recurrent funding and capital funding (which is the ear-marked elementof funding).
TheSFEFC annual report gives details of the support to individual colleges for 2003-04(see Annex 1 of this document):
http://www.sfefc.ac.uk/publications/annual_report/SFEFC_Annual_Report_and_Accounts_2003-04.pdf.
Thefollowing table summarises the number of colleges showing a financial deficit andhow much each such deficit was in each of the last six years.
| Sector Operating Surplus/(Deficit)
(£ million)
| No. of Colleges with Operating Deficit
1998-99
| (23)
| 36
1999-2000
(16 Month Period)
| (16)
| 31
2000-01
| (13.8)
| 34
2001-02
| 1.7
| 18
2002-03
| (6.0)
| 21
2003-04
| 2.4
| 12
Theinformation for the last four years (2000-01 to 2003-04) is available in more detailand by college on the SFEFC website:
http://www.sfefc.ac.uk/about_us/departments/gmap/performance_indicators.html.
The 1998-99 and 1999-2000 figureswere taken from the 1999-2000 Audit Scotland overview report on the financial health of the sector.
Thefunding councils’ joint corporate plan gives details of the overall support providedto FE colleges since 2004-05 and planned level of support until 2007-08 see AnnexA of this document:
http://www.sfc.ac.uk/joint_info/publications/sfc_joint_corporate_plan_2003-06.pdf.
Thisis detailed by recurrent funding and capital funding (which is the ear-marked elementof funding).
TheSFEFC annual report gives details of the support to individual colleges for 2003-04(see Annex 1 of this document):
http://www.sfefc.ac.uk/publications/annual_report/SFEFC_Annual_Report_and_Accounts_2003-04.pdf.
Thefollowing table summarises the number of colleges showing a financial deficit andhow much each such deficit was in each of the last six years.
| Sector Operating Surplus/(Deficit)
(£ million)
| No. of Colleges with Operating Deficit
1998-99
| (23)
| 36
1999-2000
(16 Month Period)
| (16)
| 31
2000-01
| (13.8)
| 34
2001-02
| 1.7
| 18
2002-03
| (6.0)
| 21
2003-04
| 2.4
| 12
Theinformation for the last four years (2000-01 to 2003-04) is available in more detailand by college on the SFEFC website:
http://www.sfefc.ac.uk/about_us/departments/gmap/performance_indicators.html.
The 1998-99 and 1999-2000 figureswere taken from the 1999-2000 Audit Scotland overview report on the financial health of the sector.
In the Official Report
No contribution in the Official Report cites S2W-17153 by reference.