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.
Annual Surveys
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
- Workforce Shortages in Construction, Planning, and the Built Environment, Spring 2022 (Association of Colleges (AoC), British Association of Construction Heads (BACH), Construction Industry Training Board (CITB) and Construction Leadership Council (CLC))
AoC Mental Health and Wellbeing Surveys
- AoC Mental Health and Wellbeing Survey Report 2024
- 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.
Adhoc Surveys
How to fix disadvantage funding - July 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
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