This Statistical Release presents information on the number of Assembly Learning Grants (ALGs) awarded to Welsh domiciled students in Further Education in academic year 2007/08.

Key points for 2007/08 from the release are:

• 6,170 students in Further Education applied for an Assembly Learning Grant as at end July 2008, an increase of 2 per cent compared with 2006/07.
• 5,140 applications were successful (83 per cent of applications), an increase of 9 per cent compared with the same point in 2006/07.
• 75 per cent of all applications and 88 per cent of successful applications were from full time students.
• £5.7 million has been paid to date to FE students in ALGs, an increase of 5 per cent compared with the same point in time in 2006/07.

Further information is available on the Statistics for Wales website.