Office of Qualifications and Examinations Regulation publishes official statistics on vocational and other qualifications, excluding GCSEs and GCEs, in England, Wales, and Northern Ireland. The bulletin covers all such qualifications and notes overlap with other quarterly qualification reports. The dataset was last updated on 2026-07-08.
Use Cases
- Analyze trends in vocational qualification attainment based on the described coverage of England, Wales, and Northern Ireland.
- Compare vocational qualification volumes against other qualification types based on the described exclusion of GCSEs and GCEs.
- Assess the overlap between different official qualification statistics based on the described relationship with Higher Qualifications Quarterly and Supplemental Qualifications Quarterly.
Strengths
- Published by the Office of Qualifications and Examinations Regulation as Official Statistics.
- Covers vocational and other qualifications across three UK nations: England, Wales, and Northern Ireland.
- Last updated on 2026-07-08 13:32:48.641398.
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 bias inherent to uk_data, covering only parts of the UK.
Provenance
- Source
- Office of Qualifications and Examinations Regulation
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-07-08 13:32:48.641398.
- Geography
- England, Wales, Northern Ireland