Framework for Excellence
Destinations Survey
Responsiveness to Learners Destinations Survey
The LSC has commissioned a survey of learners from the Framework for Excellence pilot providers who completed learning programmes in 2005/06, in order to generate evidence for the pilot. Learners undertaking priority learning who were not continuing any learning aims into 2006/07 were initially tracked into the 2006/07 further education, work-based learning, school sixth form and higher education national datasets to see whether they had progressed in learning. Those who were unmatched, or who could not be deemed to have moved to a positive post-learning outcome based on the matching process alone, passed on to a central survey.
The survey phase began in August 2007 and Ipsos MORI were commissioned to undertake the work supporting RCU Ltd, which is providing overall support to the LSC on this aspect of the Framework. There is no expectation that providers will have to carry out their own destinations survey in future, but providers that do currently conduct such research may wish to view the telephone interview script. This will also help pilot providers to interpret the results that will be fed back to them later in the pilot.
The interviews are being conducted by telephone and have a maximum duration of 15 minutes. Responses are being linked to learners’ ILR details and, as a result, there are relatively few background questions on personal characteristics or the learning undertaken during 2005/06. A number of different approaches to gathering destinations data are being tested in the pilot and there is no certainty, at this stage, that information gathered in the current survey will form part of the evidence base going forward.
http://readingroom.lsc.gov.uk/lsc/National/FfE_Learner_Destinations_Survey.doc
