The funding of Graduate Apprenticeships: FOI release

Information requested

• How many Graduate Apprenticeships you are funding? Profile over the last 2-3 years.
• What types of GA programmes are you funding? (Such as Business Management, data science etc)

Response

• How many Graduate Apprenticeships you are funding? Profile over the last 2-3 years.

Year	Number of Students
2021-22	1,088
2022-23	1,777
2023-24	2,515

Please note that the figures provided above relate to the number of students who receive funding to assist with study and are not employed within a Graduate Apprenticeship role at SAAS.

• What types of GA programmes are you funding? (Such as Business Management, data science etc)

Whilst our aim is to provide information whenever possible, in this instance the Student Awards Agency Scotland (SAAS) does not hold the information you have requested as there is no internal business requirement for this data.

Therefore this is a formal notice under section 17(1) of FOISA that the Student Awards Agency Scotland does not have the information you have requested.

About FOI

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