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Explains how to apply for a free level 3 qualification. These courses could help you improve your wage outcome and job prospects, and gain skills that employers value.
Sets out the rules for provision funded by learners through advanced learner loans the funding year.
What’s new The Education and Skills Funding Agency (ESFA) closed on 31…
The Education and Skills Funding Agency (ESFA) closed on 31 March 2025.…
Sets out the rules that apply to ESFA funded AEB provision for the 2023 to 2024 funding year.
Templates and guidance for colleges and training organisations to use to provide data information to prospective learners.
Details of the funding system for the DfE funded adult skills fund (ASF).
Grant funding agreements and contracts issued to providers, which are either extensions of the 2024 to 2025 agreements and contracts, or recently procured contracts.
Methodology for establishing maximum amounts for advanced learner loans designated qualifications and the maximum amounts for the funding year.
Buy multiple licences for Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) driving theory e-learning for all of the learner drivers you teach or drivers you employ.
Information about the qualifications available under the statutory digital entitlement.
Information for colleges, training organisations and employers about advanced learner loans.
Information on reviewing procedures and ensuring best practice for the appraisal of senior further education post holders and the performance of governing body chairs.
Information for education and skills training providers on the funding claims and reconciliation process.
Funding rates that will apply from the academic year 2024 to 2025 for adult skills provision funded by ESFA.
Grant funding agreements and contracts issued to providers, which are either extensions of the 2023 to 2024 agreements and contracts or recently procured contracts.
Operational guidance on the devolved adult skills fund (ASF).
Sets out the rules for education and training provision funded by learners through advanced learner loans.
Definitions and guidance for each category on the learning aim reference service (LARS).
Guidance for providers explaining the policy decisions which have informed the adult skills fund funding rules.
Statutory guidance for combined authorities exercising devolved adult education functions.
Guidance for devolved authorities to support their use of the adult skills fund.
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