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New Streamlined Funding System
As part of our moves to simplification, we published in January The Funding Rules for 2013/2014 and today we are publishing the details of the 2013/2014 simplified funding method.
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24+ Advanced Learning Loans Go Live
These loans will help learners aged 24 or above pay the fees charged by colleges and training providers for courses at Level 3 and Level 4, or Advanced and Higher Apprenticeships.
 
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Learning is a Lifetime Achievement
Kim Thorneywork presented Learning Matters with the Learning Life Skills Project Award at the Adult Learners' Week National Awards Ceremony. The event in London was part of Adult Learners' Week, which illustrates how learning can and does help people to completely transform their lives.
 
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Update

Update - Issue 159

Date: 22/05/2013

Information on traineeships and the Employer Satisfaction Survey, plus more...

Update – Issue 158

Date: 15/05/2013
Information on Community Learning 2013/14: National Briefing Events, plus more...
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Annual Report and Accounts 2011-12 

2011 was another year of major change as we continued to simplify how we engage with the further education (FE) sector, while working through the Agency’s own restructuring and downsizing that our lighter-touch role enabled.

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Funding Rules 2013/2014


We published the first version of the Funding Rules 2013/2014 in January 2013. Version 2 of the Funding Rules 2013/2014 is now available; we have clarified the rules that providers gave us feedback about.

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Learning is a Lifetime Achievement

Date: 22/05/2013
Kim Thorneywork presented Learning Matters with the Learning Life Skills Project Award at the Adult Learners’ Week National Awards Ceremony. The event in London was part of Adult Learners' Week, which illustrates perfectly how learning can and does help people to completely transform their lives.

Transition Factors

Date: 15/05/2013
From Thursday 16th May we will be writing to each provider to notify them of their transition factor.