Recommendation(s): 7

Recommendation 7: We recommend that further work is done over the medium term, by the further and higher education Funding Bodies, the Higher Education Statistics Agency, and relevant government departments to address the creation of a framework for data about lifelong learning, using a unique student record number.

1.9 The Education Departments will work with other relevant Government Departments, the funding bodies and the Higher Education Statistics Agency on the development of a framework for data about lifelong learning. The DfEE’s consultation paper on proposed arrangements for collecting statistical information from schools issued in December 1997 suggested that the proposed system of unique pupil numbers (including the existing Scottish candidate number) might have a part to play in the development of such a data framework. The Welsh Office will be consulting separately during 1998 on the collection of statistical information from schools in Wales.

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