Question follow-through · 98167
Further Education: Dorset
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many and what proportion of students progress from foundation to other low-level courses in colleges in Dorset.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 8 Dec 2025
- Target answer date
- 10 Dec 2025
- Answer
- 8 Jan 2026 · 31 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
8 Dec 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many and what proportion of students progress from foundation to other low-level courses in colleges in Dorset.
10 Dec 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
8 Jan 2026
Answer published
Progression rates for further education achievers aged 16+ at Below Level 2 and Essential Skills into sustained further learning (by level of learning destination) between 2018/19 and 2022/23 in i) England, ii) Dorset and iii) the South West are shown in ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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