Surveys
AoC conducts a number of in-house surveys on a wide range of issues affecting colleges. We use this research to support our representation work to MPs, Government officials and the media. The research also provides colleges with useful benchmarking data.
AoC College Workforce Surveys
- AoC College Workforce Survey: Summary of Findings 2020/21 (published November 2022)
- AoC College Workforce Survey - 2019/20 academic year, published 2021
- AoC College Workforce Survey - 2018/19 academic year - published 2020
- AoC College Workforce Survey - 2017/18 academic year - published Summer 2019
- AoC College Workforce Survey - 2016/2017 academic year - published Spring 2018
AoC International Surveys
The International Surveys, carried out by Association of Colleges (AoC), put colleges’ international work under the microscope to identify emerging trends, challenges and opportunities impacting the sector. Despite ever-growing interest in the UK’s international skills offer, there continues to be little information available about its scale and value compared to data for HE education export. These surveys seek to fill that gap.
AoC Mental Health and Wellbeing Surveys
- AoC Mental Health and Wellbeing Survey Report 2023
- AoC Mental Health and Wellbeing Survey Report 2021
- AoC survey on students with mental health conditions in further education, January 2017
Further information on the Mental Health and Wellbeing Charter and AoC lead in this area.
AoC Student Survey on Additional Hours
AoC FE Provider Strategy and Mandate
AoC report on the additional 40 hours for 16–18-year-olds
How to fix disadvantage funding - July 2022
Further Education Workforce Shortages in Construction, Planning, and the Built Environment, Report Spring 2022
College Middle Leadership Survey 2021 - Support, Training and Development, Report March 2022
Survey of safeguarding staff in post-16 providers in England: March 2021 - Report March 2022
AoC College Staff Recruitment Survey December 2021
AoC College Student Attendance Rates 2021 survey - Jan 2022 report
The Current Status of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion in the Further Education Sector in England, Report 2021
AoC Skills Survey 2021
AoC Catch-up Funding and Remote Education Survey Autumn 2021
AoC Survey: Counting the cost of assessment 2020/21
AoC Spring 2021 Survey: Catch-up funding and remote education
- AoC Press Release
- Catch-up: An Education Recovery Plan