In terms of NAMCOL’s founding legislation, the College was established to design, develop and offer programmes intended to upgrade and enhance:
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Levels of general education;
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Professional skills;
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Vocational skills; and
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Economic self-improvement.
In order to meet the diverse educational needs of NAMCOL’s target groups, a variety of data on learners and potential learners is required. This Section of the Digest highlights information regarding the gender, age and occupation status of all learners enrolled at NAMCOL in 2004.
Figure 1.1 shows that more females are at present enrolled on the JSC, IGCSE and CED programmes than males with the exception of the NHDABET and CYP programmes. Out of the total of 25,290 enrolments, 16,666 (66%) females compared to 8,624 (34%) males were enrolled during 2004.
Figure 1.1: - Enrolments by Gender and Level of Study, 2004
Note: The total number of enrolments and commensurate percentages are reflected on top of each bar.
NAMCOL records the birth dates
of learners at registration. The reference period for age is any time between 01
January and 31 December 2004.
The table below shows the age distribution of NAMCOL learners per gender. In
2004, most of the learners were in the age bracket 19-29. In total, 21,577
learners fell into this bracket.
Table 1.1 - Registered Learners by Gender and Age, 2004
|
Age Category |
Gender |
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|
Females |
% Females |
Males |
% Males |
Total number |
|
|
<16 |
10 |
83% |
2 |
17% |
12 |
|
16 |
11 |
48% |
12 |
52% |
23 |
|
17 |
163 |
72% |
63 |
28% |
226 |
|
18 |
771 |
70% |
336 |
30% |
1,107 |
|
19 |
1,919 |
68% |
891 |
32% |
2,810 |
|
20-24 |
9,392 |
64% |
5,314 |
36% |
14,706 |
|
25-29 |
2,774 |
68% |
1,287 |
32% |
4,061 |
|
30-34 |
943 |
72% |
390 |
28% |
1,333 |
|
35-39 |
378 |
70% |
172 |
30% |
550 |
|
40-44 |
174 |
68% |
88 |
32% |
262 |
|
45-49 |
54 |
63% |
31 |
37% |
85 |
|
50-54 |
17 |
57% |
14 |
43% |
31 |
|
55-59 |
2 |
33% |
4 |
67% |
6 |
|
60+ |
41 |
72% |
16 |
28% |
57 |
|
Total |
16,649 |
66% |
8,620 |
34% |
25,269 |
It is considered essential to collect
occupational data as well. Learners are, therefore, asked during registration
whether they do any paid work apart from studying.
During the year 2004, 24 835 (98.2%) of the learners did not do any paid work
compared to 457 (1.8%) who were employed. Please note that this data includes
learners across all programmes offered by NAMCOL.