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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 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 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 Innovation in Further Education Colleges Survey, Summer 2020

Colleges and Covid-19 Survey Summer 2020

AoC Survey on Careers Education and Information, Advice and Guidance, March 2020

AoC Covid-19 and Colleges Survey Spring 2020

AoC College Governance Survey 2019 - Summary of Findings, October 2019

AoC College ESOL Survey, July 2019

AoC Survey on Personal and Social Development and Enrichment in Colleges, report May 2019

AoC College IT and Digital Technology Survey, Summer 2018

"Issues facing colleges" - An Association of Colleges (AoC) survey in partnership with Tes, April 2018

AoC Survey on College Higher Education Spring 2018

AoC high need funding in colleges survey report, May 2018

AoC: Ofsted and college attendance rates survey, February 2018

Apprenticeships and college finance, January 2018

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