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Race Equality Colleges; Issues and experiences -

• According to the National Student Survey Black students in FE

are more satisfied with teaching and learning than those in HE,
particularly with feedback and assessment.

• 783,000 people aged 16-24 were Not in Education, Employment

or Training (NEET) in the second quarter of 2018, 11.2% of all

people in this age group. Studies have shown that time spent
NEET can have a detrimental effect on physical and mental

health, and increase the likelihood of unemployment, low

wages, or low quality of work later on in life.

• By ethnicity, the proportion of 16-24 year olds who were NEET
was highest for those from either a Pakistani/Bangladeshi or a

Mixed background (12%) and lowest for those from

Indian/Chinese/Other Asian backgrounds (7%).

• Colleges will be expected to publish details of their careers
programme for young people and their parents, and a named

Careers Leader should lead the careers programme in every

school and college. By the end of 2020, the ‘Careers Strategy’
intends that all schools and colleges will have access to an

Enterprise Adviser. Schools should also offer every young

person seven encounters with employers, including STEM

employers (at least one each year from years 7 to 13), with

support from the CEC (The Careers and Enterprise Company).

• Although data on the patterns of participation in FE is less

available, the fact that FE students typically live at home would
suggest that for many Black FE students, their educational

options are limited to the colleges in the area in which they

grew up, where the quality of teaching and learning is often

linked to students’ socio-economic background (from DIUS

which is now a part of the Department for Business, Innovation
and Skills).

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