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FE Choices

FE Choices provides comparable information to help learners and employers make informed choices about education and training.

• From: Education and Skills Funding Agency and Department for Education
• Published: 23 March 2017
• Last updated: 13 June 2022 — See all updates

All FE Choices data is available on GOV.UK and data.gov. The performance indicators are on the National Careers Service and the apprenticeship service web pages.

FE Choices consists of nationally collected and published performance indicator data that measures learner and employer satisfaction. This information is made available in a clear and consistent format.

Information is provided about:

• further education colleges and other organisations that receive government funding and offer education and training to people over the age of 16
• organisations that offer academic and vocational subjects, apprenticeships, and training on and off the job

Technical information about the surveys

For technical information about the surveys, read the transparency spreadsheet. For more detail about how the learner satisfaction survey is worked out, email SDE.ServiceDesk@education.gov.uk.

Employer satisfaction survey data

• FE Choices employer satisfaction survey: 2018 to 2019
  • 24 October 2019
  • Official Statistics
• FE Choices employer satisfaction survey: 2017 to 2018
  • 25 October 2018
  • Official Statistics
• FE Choices employer satisfaction survey 2016 to 2017
  • 1 November 2017
  • Official Statistics
• Employer satisfaction survey 2015 to 2016: national reporting
  • 23 March 2017
  • Official Statistics
• FE Choices employer satisfaction survey 2015 to 2016
  • 13 October 2016
  • Official Statistics
• Employer satisfaction survey 2014 to 2015: national reporting
  • 17 March 2016
  • Research and analysis
• FE Choices employer satisfaction survey 2014 to 2015
  • 17 March 2016
  • Research and analysis
• Employer satisfaction survey 2013 to 2014: national reporting
  • 28 May 2015
  • Research and analysis

Learner satisfaction survey data

The FE Choices learner satisfaction surveys 2019 to 2020 and 2020 to 2021 were cancelled due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak.

In 2020 to 2021, the Department for Education (DfE) conducted the FE COVID-19 learner and apprentice experience survey to understand the experiences of FE learners during the COVID-19 outbreak.

DfE does not intend to run the FE Choices learner satisfaction survey again in its current form. DfE will instead be considering the most useful information to collect from learners that best supports the proposals laid out in last year’s public consultation Skills for Jobs: a new further education funding and accountability system – taking into account the responses to that consultation.

• FE COVID-19 learner and apprentices experience survey report
  • 28 April 2022
  • Research and analysis
• FE Choices learner satisfaction survey 2018 to 2019
  • 10 September 2019
  • Official Statistics
• FE Choices learner satisfaction survey 2017 to 2018
  • 10 October 2019
  • Official Statistics
• FE Choices learner satisfaction survey 2016 to 2017
  • 13 September 2018
  • Official Statistics
• Learner satisfaction survey 2015 to 2016: national reporting
  • 23 March 2017
  • Official Statistics
• Learner satisfaction survey 2014 to 2015: national reporting
  • 12 February 2016
  • Research and analysis
• FE Choices learner satisfaction survey 2014 to 2015
  • 8 December 2016
  • Research and analysis

Guidance and information for training providers (learner satisfaction)

• Learner and employer satisfaction surveys
  • 5 March 2021
  • Guidance
• Learner satisfaction survey
  • 2 March 2020
  • Guidance

FE Choices archive

• FE Choices learner satisfaction survey 2015 to 2016
  • 5 April 2018
  • Guidance
• Employer satisfaction survey 2012 to 2013: national reporting
  • 28 May 2015
  • Research and analysis
• Employer satisfaction survey 2011 to 2012: national reporting
  • 23 April 2014
  • Research and analysis
• FE choices: learner satisfaction data report 2011 to 2012
  • 27 March 2014
  • Research and analysis
• FE choices: learner destinations - questionnaire and performance indicator
  • 25 February 2015
  • Guidance

Published 23 March 2017
Last updated 13 June 2022 + show all updates

1. 13 June 2022

   Updated to reflect that the department does not intend to run the FE Choices learner satisfaction survey again in its current form.

2. 28 April 2022

   Added information about the FE learner and apprentice experience survey on the effects of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.

3. 5 March 2021

   Update: The FE Choices learner satisfaction survey will not go ahead for the 2020 to 2021 academic year due to the ongoing impact of the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak.

4. 24 April 2020

   Added information that the FE Choices learner satisfaction survey 2019 to 2020 publication is cancelled due to coronavirus (COVID-19).

5. 24 October 2019

   Added 'FE Choices employer satisfaction survey: 2018 to 2019'.

6. 18 July 2019

   Added 'FE Choices learner satisfaction survey 2018 to 2019'.

7. 25 October 2018

   Added 'FE Choices employer satisfaction survey: 2017 to 2018'.

8. 19 July 2018

   Added FE Choices learner satisfaction survey 2017 to 2018.

9. 23 March 2017

   First published.