Current status: Answered by Graeme Dey on 11 March 2025
To ask the Scottish Government how many college course places have been funded in each year since 1999.
The information requested is not held centrally.
Funded places at colleges is based on the number of credits allocated to each college, with a credit equating to 40 hours of learning. SFC publish funding allocations annually in the College Final Funding Allocations release. Information for 2024-25 is available on the SFC website: https://www.sfc.ac.uk/publications/college-final-funding-allocations-2024-25/.
The Scottish Funding Council (SFC) collect and publish student data, through their annual College Statistics publication: https://www.sfc.ac.uk/publications/college-statistics-2023-24/
Previous funding allocation publications can be found on the SFC website:
Main Website - https://www.sfc.ac.uk/publications/
Archived Website (for publications pre-2019) - https://www.sfc.ac.uk/about-us/sfc-archive/
Further details can be requested from the SFC.