attended a school which received Uni Connect engagement while they were likely to be studying there . We can then estimate the total number of years of engagement that each learner has received . 32
80 . Table 6 below shows the number and proportion of each cohort of learners from Uni Connect areas according to the number of years of engagement that their Key Stage 4 school is recorded as having received , while they could have been in attendance . Population totals for each cohort can be found in Table B1 in Annex B .
81 . This shows that a diminishing group of learners from Uni Connect areas attended a school with no recorded engagement whatsoever . In the most recent cohort , just 10.5 per cent of learners from Uni Connect areas are identified as having attended a school in Key Stage 4 which was never recorded to have received any Uni Connect engagement while they were likely to be studying there .
Table 6 : Number and proportion of each cohort of learners from Uni Connect areas according to the number of years of engagement that their Key Stage 4 school received
GCSE summer
UCAS application cycle
Statistic
No engagement
2014 2016 Counts 90,450 Proportions 100.0 %
Less than 1 year
2015 2017 Counts 69,890 19,585 Proportions 78.1 % 21.9 %
At most 1 full years
2016 2018 Counts 20,745 46,025 19,635 Proportions 24.0 % 53.3 % 22.7 %
At most 2 full years
2017 2019 Counts 17,500 785 47,805 17,350 Proportions 21.0 % 0.9 % 57.3 % 20.8 %
At most 3 full years
2018 2020 Counts 11,470 445 15,685 39,910 15,300 Proportions 13.9 % 0.5 % 18.9 % 48.2 % 18.5 %
At most 4 full years
2019 2021 Counts 8,975 490 11,760 20,165 29,710 14,760
Proportions 10.5 % 0.6 % 13.7 % 23.5 % 34.6 % 17.2 % Note : Counts are rounded to the nearest five , while proportions are rounded to one decimal place .
82 . Despite this widespread engagement among learners in target areas , Table 6 also shows that only around one in five learners from these areas received the full amount of engagement available for their cohort . This tallies with the 20 per cent engagement target which was agreed for Uni Connect partnerships in phase one and two of the programme , as previously discussed .
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These estimates rest on two assumptions . Firstly , because we only know the school each learner attended in Key Stage 4 , we cannot track movement between schools after this time , thereby assuming that no learner changes schools after Key Stage 4 . The second assumption applies to only the two most recent cohorts of learners ( those applying in 2020 and 2021 ) for whom we require that schools must have received at least 10 hours of outreach activity to be counted as having received Uni Connect engagement within a given year .
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