Official Statistics

Annual qualifications market report - Academic year 2013/14

The report provides an overview of the qualifications market and provides a single reference point about participants in the market.

• From: Ofqual
• Published: 8 October 2015
• Last updated: 4 February 2016 — See all updates

Applies to England, Northern Ireland and Wales

Documents

Annual Qualifications Market Report - 2013/14 Academic Year

Ref: Ofqual/15/5778

PDF, 1000 KB, 48 pages

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Data: GCSE, AS and A level qualifications

MS Excel Spreadsheet, 157 KB

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Pre-release access list

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Details

The main findings are:

• just over 16 million certificates were awarded in 2013/14 - around 10% fewer than in 2012/13, driven primarily by changes in school entry patterns and accountability frameworks

• the number of regulated awarding organisations fell to 166 - 10 fewer than a year earlier

• the number of available qualifications increased to almost 25,000 - around 6% more than in 2012/13, due to a rise in qualifications designed to meet the Qualifications and Credit Framework requirements

• 20 awarding organisations accounted for more than 90% of all certificates awarded during the academic year with Pearson Education Ltd awarding nearly one-quarter of all certificates

• more certificates were awarded in the preparation for life and work sector subject area than any other in 2013/14, accounting for just under one-third of all certificates awarded during the year

Data

The data for GCSE, AS and A level qualifications can be found in the data file available on this page. The data for qualifications other than GCSE, AS and A levels can be found in our vocational qualifications dataset.

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Published 8 October 2015
Last updated 4 February 2016 + show all updates

1. 4 February 2016

   Corrected some data transcription errors in the report.

2. 12 January 2016

   Some data were missing from the dataset.

3. 20 November 2015

   Figure 4 was changed as in the original publication it was a duplicate of Figure 6, which was the correct figure for AS certificates.

4. 8 October 2015

   First published.