Surveys and Research
AoC conducts a number of in-house surveys on a wide range of issues affecting colleges. We use this research to support our representation work to MPs, Government officials and the media. The research also provides colleges with useful benchmarking data.
AoC also carries out research projects on its own and in partnership with other organisations. We also commission external research.
AoC Enrolment Survey 2023
AoC Mental Health and Wellbeing Survey 2022
Global engagement in the UK college sector - academic year 2021/22
AoC Student Survey on Additional Hours
AoC FE Provider Strategy and Mandate
AoC College Workforce Survey: Summary of Findings 2020/21 (published November 2022)
AoC Enrolment Survey Autumn 2022
AoC report on the additional 40 hours for 16–18-year-olds
How to fix disadvantage funding - July 2022
Further Education Workforce Shortages in Construction, Planning, and the Built Environment, Report Spring 2022
AoC English and Maths Survey, Report March 2022
College Middle Leadership Survey 2021 - Support, Training and Development, Report March 2022
Survey of safeguarding staff in post-16 providers in England: March 2021 - Report March 2022
AoC College Staff Recruitment Survey December 2021
AoC College Student Attendance Rates 2021 survey - Jan 2022 report
The Current Status of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion in the Further Education Sector in England, Report 2021
AoC College Workforce Survey - 2019/20 academic year, published 2021
AoC Skills Survey 2021
AoC Enrolments Survey Autumn 2021
AoC Catch-up Funding and Remote Education Survey Autumn 2021
AoC Survey: Counting the cost of assessment 2020/21
AoC Spring 2021 Survey: Catch-up funding and remote education
- AoC Press Release
- Catch-up: An Education Recovery Plan
AoC Mental Health and Wellbeing Survey 2020
- Further information on the report, the Mental Health and Wellbeing Charter and AoC lead in this area
AoC International Survey Summer 2020
AoC College Workforce Survey - 2018/19 academic year - published 2020
AoC Survey: Autumn 2020 College Enrolments and Impact of Covid-19 Pandemic
AoC Innovation in Further Education Colleges Survey, Summer 2020
Colleges and Covid-19 Survey Summer 2020
AoC Survey on Careers Education and Information, Advice and Guidance, March 2020
AoC Covid-19 and Colleges Survey Spring 2020
AoC English and Maths Survey 2020
AoC International Survey 2019
AoC College Governance Survey 2019 - Summary of Findings, October 2019
The impact of Erasmus+ in UK FE colleges, An AoC report October 2019
AoC College ESOL Survey, July 2019
AoC College Workforce Survey - 2017/18 academic year - published Summer 2019
AoC Survey on Personal and Social Development and Enrichment in Colleges, report May 2019
AoC English and Maths Survey, December 2018
With accompanying blog which highlights key responses and policy asks: