Further Education
Skills Funding Agency Moving towards the full devolution of the Adult Education Budget (AEB) (March 2016) As part of the transition to the
How legacy GCSEs and IGCSEs in English, English Literature and mathematics will be funded in 2016 to 2017 (June 2016) available in November 2016 and Summer 2017 for legacy GCSEs in English, English Literature and Mathematics. For academic year 2016 to 2017, the EFA and SFA will fund leaners aged 16 or over who meet Ofqual’s criteria. Learners who are only sitting exams will not be funded. If new learners are being enrolled onto the legacy GCSEs, it must be ensured that they can achieve the qualification in one year. Learners aged 16 or over who are to study or continue to study IGCSEs in English and Maths and Level 1/2 Certificates, will continue to be funded. After 1 August 2017, these qualifications will no longer be approved for learners to study or continue to study under the 16 to 18 English and Maths condition of funding, and English and Maths legal entitlements. On 23 March 2016 Ofqual announced that resits will be
removed. The delivery of a qualification is only required if a learner exercises their legal entitlement to a first full Level 2 or Level 3 and/or English and Maths. Qualifications delivered as part of local flexibility are not required to enter a formal approval process. Qualifications used must be selected from the Regulated Qualifications Framework (RQF) since these qualifications are eligible for funding through local flexibility.
completely local-driven skills system, greater flexibility has been introduced. This means that local areas, colleges and other training organisations will be able to decide the most appropriate training provision in response to local needs, which may or may not include qualifications. Therefore the requirement for all delivery funded by the SFA to be in the form of a qualification has been Area Review Update (March - July 2016) The Department for Education (DfE) and Department of Business Innovation and Skills (BIS) are to jointly publish documents relating to the area reviews in the near future. These documents include: • The first reports from the individual area reviews within Wave 1. • Implementation guidance. • Due Diligence framework and appendices. • Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP) and Local Authority guidance. In March 2016 an updated area review guidance was released. The updated guidance is more comprehensive and includes the outcomes from the first area reviews as well as further information regarding grants. The updated guidance also includes information regarding the option for sixth form colleges to convert to academies.
2014/15 College Accounts and Benchmarking
On 6 May 2016 the Association of Colleges updated and released the combined database of SFA and EFA college finance records, for years ending 31 July 2015, 31 July 2014 and 31 July 2013. The database also includes voluntary benchmarking information.
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