Where do FETAC learners go?

Presentation to CSO 3rd Admin Data Seminar20th February 2014

Rhona DempseyBerni Dunne

FETAC?Further Education and Training Awards Council (FETAC) was the statutory awarding body for further education and training in Ireland.

FETAC made awards at levels 1 to 6 on the National Framework of Qualifications (NFQ). These awards are now made by QQI.

The FET sector in Ireland is wider than the FETAC awards and includes a myriad of other awarding bodies, some of which are aligned to the NFQ.

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QQI• Quality and Qualifications Ireland (QQI) was established in

November 2012 by the amalgamation of the functions of the Further Education and Training Awards Council (FETAC), the Higher Education and Training Awards Council (HETAC), the Irish Universities Quality Board (IUQB) and the National Qualifications Authority of Ireland (NQAI).

• QQI is the agency responsible for the National Framework of Qualifications (NFQ) and the quality assurance of further and higher education and training (including English language provision) in Ireland.

We DON’T know(Generally)

Where do FETAC learners go?

Who Cares?

Why?• Significant resources/activity:

- Two largest FET funders – Solas and ETB’s spent c. €600m on E&T for c. 250,000 learners

- QQI made awards in 2012 to 175,000 learners

• Quality and Purpose of Award

• Skills match

• Changing FET landscape / Economy

• SOLAS: five-year FET strategy

• TROIKA ‘evaluate FET provision in terms of its relevance for labour activation purposes, i.e. whether it is suited to the needs and abilities of the large pool of unemployed, in particular the long-term unemployed, and to the prospective skills needs of the economy’.

• NESC (Sweeney, 2013) and ESRI (unpubs)

Potential SolutionMatch Admin data records

Successful pilot complete 2009 FETAC data (major award holders)

» Berni Dunne» John Dunne» Nicola Tickner» Rhona Dempsey» Ray O’Neill

Education data sourced from HEA (Vivienne Patterson), FETAC, DES

Where do FETAC learners go?

• Matching done in accordance with agreed ‘Data Matching Protocol’

• Sources

FETAC Awards made 2010 calendar yearRevenue Income data – P35 returns 2010 calendar yearSocial Protection Central records system 2010 calendar yearHEA Student enrolments 2009/10 academic year

CSO Business Register 2010 calendar year

Revenue Income Tax -Form 11 2010 calendar year

• Linking done on protected identifier key based on PPSN, not all sources have complete coverage

Approach

Where do FETAC learners go?

categories not mutually exclusive

From FETAC 2009

To Employment 2010

To Unemployment 2010

To FETAC 2010

To HEA 09/10

To Self Employed 2010

Not recorded

28,000

16,000 6,800

5,800 5,000 700 7,500

100% 56% 24% 21% 18% 2% 26%

What did our cohort study? NFQ Level of Award by Gender

Female (5,500) L5 Childcare, Business Studies, Healthcare SupportMale (3,000) L6 Craft-Electrical, Carpentry, Plumbing

30%

Where do FETAC learners go?

Over half (55%)in Employment, of which:

NACE Q Human health and Social Work Activity (+5%)NACE G Wholesale/Retail/Repair of Motor vehicles (-25%)NACE I Accommodation and Food Service (-55%)NACE F Construction (+10%)

Q G I F0%

5%

10%

15%

20%

25%

30%

25%

20%

13%

7%

Almost 25% Unemployed:

Profile by Field and NFQ level:

Unemployed:Profile by Gender and Age

Unemployed: 2009 and 2010 by NFQ Level

Where do FETAC learners go?

C. 40% continued in Education, of which:

-Almost 6,000 (21%) received a FETAC award (including all award types) in 2010.-At least 5,000 (18%) were present in HEA

enrolment figures for Higher Education Institutes (HEI’s) for the academic year 2009-2010.

2009 Cohort moving To HEA data 2009/10: By ISCED

Over a quarter (26%) not recorded

7,500 learners

• Examine in more detail - salary, job quality

• Multi-annual• Research collaboration• Compatible data

What now?

Email: rdempsey@qqi.ie

Thank you