Essential Skills Course Enrolments by Academic Year and UK Administrative Geography

UK administrative data on enrolments in Essential Skills courses, organized by academic year. The dataset is published by OpenDataNI under the OGL-UK-3.0 license. Data for the 2014 academic year covers the period from 1 August 2014 to 31 July 2015.

Use Cases

• Analyze trends in adult education participation based on academic year enrolment data.
• Compare Essential Skills course uptake across different UK administrative geographies.
• Assess the impact of policy changes on skills training enrolment over time.

Strengths

• Data is structured by academic year, with a defined period (e.g., 1 August 2014 to 31 July 2015 for 2014).
• Published under the permissive OGL-UK-3.0 license for reuse.
• Sourced from an official administrative data provider (OpenDataNI).

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Data may reflect geographic or temporal bias inherent to the uk_data source.

Provenance

Source

OpenDataNI

Collection Method

Likely administrative records from education or skills training providers.

Time Range

Covers academic years, with an example provided for 2014/2015.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-07-08 13:32:45.576834; freshness should be verified.

Geography

UK administrative geographies.