Annual Monitoring Report 2022 / 2023

It shows that only 29 per cent of students on a first degree course are under 21 years of age, the lowest since 2013 – 14 when it was also 29 per cent. Meanwhile, mature students are increasingly common with those in the 35 and above age group making up 18 per cent of all students.  

Other key findings

• There are 18 undergraduate courses, although eight are paused or ‘teaching out’ and the number of students recruited to these courses has dropped from 182 to 117.  
• The introduction of the new apprenticeship degrees introduced in September 2023 will increase the number of courses at undergraduate level from 2025. 
• The number of postgraduate youth work programmes has risen from seven to 12 in the past four years, including a new programme in the East of England where no youth work course has been available since 2018.  
• Completion rates for full time Level 6 students are notably higher than they have been at any point in the last five years, rising from 75 per cent to 87 per cent since last year.    
• There is an upward trend in men training as youth workers, with men making up 28% of the student numbers compared with 21 per cent last year, with students if other genders making up 4 per cent of the student body.