Where do FETAC learners go?
Presentation to CSO 3rd Admin Data Seminar
20th February 2014
Rhona Dempsey
Berni 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.
Where do FETAC learners go?
We DON’T know
(Generally)
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)
Where do FETAC learners go?
Potential Solution
Match 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
Approach
•
Matching done in accordance with agreed ‘Data Matching Protocol’
• Sources
FETAC
Revenue
Social Protection
HEA
CSO
Revenue
•
Awards made
Income data – P35 returns
Central records system
Student enrolments
Business Register
Income Tax -Form 11
2010 calendar year
2010 calendar year
2010 calendar year
2009/10 academic year
2010 calendar year
2010 calendar year
Linking done on protected identifier key based on PPSN, not all
sources have complete coverage
Where do FETAC learners go?
From
FETAC
2009
To
Employment
2010
To
To FETAC
Unemployment 2010
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%
categories not mutually exclusive
What did our cohort study?
NFQ Level of Award by Gender
Female
Male
(5,500)
(3,000)
30%
L5
L6
Childcare, Business Studies, Healthcare Support
Craft-Electrical, Carpentry, Plumbing
Where do FETAC learners go?
Over half (55%)in Employment, of which:
30%
25%
25%
20%
20%
15%
13%
10%
7%
5%
0%
Q
NACE Q
NACE G
NACE I
NACE F
G
I
F
Human health and Social Work Activity
Wholesale/Retail/Repair of Motor vehicles
Accommodation and Food Service
Construction
(+5%)
(-25%)
(-55%)
(+10%)
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
What now?
• Examine in more detail - salary, job
quality
• Multi-annual
• Research collaboration
• Compatible data
Thank you
Email: rdempsey@qqi.ie