Education and Training Statistics for the United Kingdom

This release compiles information on education systems across the United Kingdom. Education is devolved in the UK, so each part of the United Kingdom has a separate education system.

In this release, there are sections focusing on the school system: numbers of schools, pupils and teachers and pupil to teacher ratios, covering the 2021/22 academic year.

This is followed by sections looking at post-compulsory education, which includes the number of further and higher education institutions and the number of students for the 2020/21 academic year. There is also a section on young adults (aged between 16-24) who are not in education, employment or training (NEET).

The next sections focus on students' qualifications taken in the 2020/21 academic year (although given the different qualifications systems and headline measures, it is not suitable to present a direct comparative picture of pupil performance across the UK), as well as the highest qualifications held by adults (aged 19-64) in the UK as of quarter 4 2021.

Finally, there is a section showing government education expenditure in the UK to the 2021-22 financial year.