24 February 2021
24 February 2021
The Education and Skills Funding Agency (ESFA) will only fund students to undertake qualifications through one of our funded offers if we have approved those qualifications for public funding. This website contains funding approval information for all of the qualifications we will fund through our qualification offers (except apprenticeships and traineeships).
The Education and Skills Funding Agency (ESFA) list of qualifications approved for funding for 14 to 19.
An online portal provided by the NCS for prospective students to find courses based on keywords, postcode region, and other characteristics.
An online search tool for finding learning aim references for qualifications, as well as T Levels, apprenticeship standards, frameworks, and units.
Sets out details of the classification and coding system used to record non-regulated activity in the Individualised Learner Record (ILR).
A retired online tool for searching for learning aims - has now been replaced by 'Find a Learning Aim'.
Government white paper setting out the vision and policy framework for post-16 education and skills reform in England.
QAR guidance and datasets for 2025 to 2026, updated to include T Levels and foundation apprenticeships.
The role of qualifications in publicly funded further education.
Search for recognised qualifications in the UK.
Guidance and online form for colleges and providers to submit their Strategic Transition Planning Statement as part of vocational qualifications reform from 2027.
Qualifications with no enrolments that the Education and Skills Funding Agency will remove funding approval from for new starts, from 1 August 2021.