Education / Training (General): business succession in the UK

Name: Education / Training (General) business succession in the UK
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8,382 UK education / training (general) companies — 32.5% — have a director aged 60 or over.

0.0 points above the all-trades average of 32.5%.

Companies measured25,760

Director aged 60+8,382

Exposure rate32.5%

Companies House register·Measured base 3,475,770·Data as at 13 August 2026·Full methodology

25,760

Companies measured

8,382

With a director 60+

3,363

With a director 70+

32.5%

Exposure rate

Of the 8,382 with a director over 60, 367 score 50 or higher on business quality — an output of our own scoring model, not a Companies House figure. How we score it.

Education / Training (General) by region

Region	Companies	60+	Rate
Northern Ireland	364	176	48.4%
South West	1,843	748	40.6%
North East	622	225	36.2%
South East	3,451	1,246	36.1%
Wales	841	299	35.6%
Yorkshire & The Humber	1,717	569	33.1%
East of England	2,015	654	32.5%
Scotland	1,069	343	32.1%
East Midlands	1,218	378	31%
North West	2,690	830	30.9%
West Midlands	1,948	601	30.9%
London	7,965	2,308	29%

Combinations with fewer than 250 measured companies are not listed separately. They are still counted in every total on this page.

Next step

This page counts director ages across the whole register. If you are looking to buy rather than to research, our Education & Training pages go further: we score each company on business quality and exit timing, and shortlist the ones worth approaching.

See UK Education & Training →

Part of the UK Business Succession Index.

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ExitRadar, "Education / Training (General): business succession in the UK", UK Business Succession Index, 13 August 2026. https://www.exitradar.co.uk/succession/svc-education/

Need a cut that is not published here — a different trade grouping, a finer geography, or the underlying distribution? Get in touch and we will usually provide it. Methodology.

Method. Figures cover the 3,475,770 active UK companies where Companies House records an age bracket for at least one serving director — 93.8% of the 3,706,712 companies on the active register. A company counts as succession-exposed when its oldest serving director is 60 or over — not the board average, which would hide a 70-year-old founder sitting alongside younger co-directors. The business-quality figure covers only the subset our model assesses — see the methodology for why that is far smaller than the number with filed accounts. Data as at 13 August 2026; updated quarterly, next update October 2026. Full methodology.