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Update on education funding for 2017-18

By Andrew Gladstone-Heighton, Policy Leader, Thursday 22 December 2016

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The Education Funding Agency (EFA) has published its annual funding letter, providing an update on how 16-18 learners will be funded on a Study Programme from August 2017. The key points in the letter are as follows:

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Advanced Learner Loans – opportunities to increase adult participation that are not always being realised.

By Beej Kaczmarczyk, Director, Learning Curve Group, Tuesday 06 December 2016

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Advanced Learner Loans (loans) have been a feature of the funding of adult education and training programmes for the last three years , and despite the funding available for them rising to £268 million in 2016-17, evidence shows that the take up of loans has not been as high as expected. So what are the issues on both the demand and supply sides of the adult learning market that have caused this? Loans were previously only available to adults aged 24 and over on the first day of their programme and for learning aims at levels 3 and 4. Since August of 2016, their scope has been extended to include adults aged 19 and over, and they are now available for learning aims from levels 3 to 6. The aim was to remove some of the barriers to participation by adults required to find 50% of the cost of fees for their programmes, and also to encourage more adults to share the cost  and ‘invest’ in their own learning. The learner applies for a loan from Student Loans Company (SLC) to cover the whole cost of the fee they are charged by the provider for an eligible learning aim, e.g. Access to HE diploma.

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Twitter Q&A: EPA and apprenticeship levy

By , Friday 02 December 2016

This week, we hosted two live Q&A sessions on Twitter, with our expert Cailean Carvalho answering questions around the forthcoming apprenticeship levy and end point assessment (EPA). Here’s a summary of all the questions and answers from the sessions. Thank you to those who participated – we hope you found it useful. If you’d like any further information, please get in touch with us on 0191 239 8000 or email [email protected].

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