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Full Load Equivalent (FLE) enrolment within the Alberta post-secondary education system

Description

The set of statistics in these datasets describe the Full Load Equivalent (FLE) by each institution and academic year within Alberta's publicly funded post-secondary education system. FLE is a measure used to allow for comparable calculations across different institutions, across different programs. The FLE is measured by taking the load of the learner enrolled (instructional hours + practicum hours) and dividing by the full load of that program. This results in a comparable metric to be able to use across the system. The FLE calculation is consistent for every institution and program. The data tables presented are related to enrolments in approved programs at publicly funded post-secondary institutions within Alberta. Separate data files exist focusing on the system level, or for subsets that focus on either international or self-identified Indigenous learners.

Updated

February 7, 2025

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FLE enrolment Indigenous students LERS Learner and Enrolment Reporting System full load equivalent enrolment international students post-secondary enrolment post-secondary institutions student enrolment
Resources

Title and Dataset Information

Alternative Title

Publicly Funded Post-secondary Enrolments - FLEs

Date Modified

2025-02-7

Update Frequency

Annual

Publisher / Creator Information

Creator
Advanced Education
Publisher

Advanced Education

Subject Information

Topic
Education - Adult and Continuing Education - Post-Secondary and Skills Training Indigenous Peoples
Start Date

2014-08-01

End Date

2024-07-31

Resource Dates

Date Created

2019-01-07

Date Added to catalogue

2018-11-26T22:12:34.339501

Date Issued

2019-01-07

Date Modified

2025-02-7

Audience information

Educators General Public Indigenous Peoples Students

Language

English (Canadian)

Identifiers

Usage / Licence

Usage Considerations

  • See the Dictionary tab within the file for definitions and additional context related to the data.

  • All data in this document has been sourced from Alberta Advanced Education's Learner and Enrolment Reporting System (LERS).

  • The values in each file focus on enrolments in provincially-approved programming at publicly-funded post-secondary institutions in Alberta. Separate data files exist focusing on the system level, or for subsets that focus on either International or self-identified Indigenous learners.

  • The Banff Centre does not offer standardized approved programming and therefore enrolments at The Banff Centre are NOT included in these datasets.

  • Reporting changes at institutions may impact longitudinal analysis. Caution should be used when comparing year to year values. To ensure longitudinal analysis, system level reporting changes have been incorporated into this file and therefore, values may not align to previous versions of this file. Context related to institutional reporting changes that may impact values within all files related to this measure (found in the Dictionary tab under the Reporting Changes by Year section).

-Information on the data and changes to the data can be found within each file.

Licence

Open Government Licence - Alberta

Contact

Contact Name

Data Management and Governance Unit, Advanced Education

Contact Email

ae.data@gov.ab.ca