{"id":89266,"date":"2018-02-22T09:52:00","date_gmt":"2018-02-22T09:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=acab27f94ec78442d92a9e2a60fe0470"},"modified":"2018-02-22T09:52:00","modified_gmt":"2018-02-22T09:52:00","slug":"news-story-annual-qualifications-market-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=89266","title":{"rendered":"News story: Annual Qualifications Market Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<h2 id=\"main-trends\">Main trends<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>12.4 million certificates were awarded in GCSE, AS, A level and vocational and other qualifications available for award in England over the academic year 2016 to 2017 (October 2016 to September 2017).<\/li>\n<li>The organisations with the largest market shares in these qualifications were AQA (27%), Pearson (23%), OCR (10%) and City and Guilds (7%); the rest of the awarding organisations accounted for 33% market share.<\/li>\n<li>The overall number of certificates fell by nearly 8% compared to the previous year, continuing the trend seen over several years.<\/li>\n<li>AS levels had the biggest percentage drop in the number of certificates (down by 43% compared to academic year 2015 to 2016).<\/li>\n<li>6.1 million certificates were awarded in vocational and other qualifications, a drop of 10% compared to the previous year.<\/li>\n<li>10% of the vocational and other qualifications certificates were in technical qualifications.<\/li>\n<li>4% of the vocational and other qualifications certificates were in Applied General Qualifications.<\/li>\n<li>23.7K qualifications were available in academic year 2016 to 2017, a 2% decrease on the previous year.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"call-to-action\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/statistics\/annual-qualifications-market-report-academic-year-2016-to-2017?cache-refresh=983987918\">Read The Annual Qualifications Market Report<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Overview of the qualifications market and a single reference point about participants in the market.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89266"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=89266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89266\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}