Further education financial management and data collection

Services

Advanced learner loans facility requests

Use the form to submit requests for a new facility or loans bursary for the 2023 to 2024 funding year
Sixth-form college capital transactions: forms

Forms SF1 (significant disposals) and SFC2 (significant acquisitions) for capital transactions in sixth-form colleges.

19+ funding allocations guidance 2024 to 2025
- Guidance
- 21 March 2024
- Education and Skills Funding Agency
Introduction to Qualification Achievement Rates (QARs)
- Detailed guide
- 10 January 2024
- Education and Skills Funding Agency
Further education workforce data collection
- Guidance
- 17 April 2024
- Education and Skills Funding Agency
ESFA funding claims and reconciliation
- Guidance
- 6 February 2024
- Education and Skills Funding Agency
Find a learning aim and ILR sources of data
- Guidance
- 29 June 2023
- Education and Skills Funding Agency

Letter to accounting officers: 20 March 2024
- 20 March 2024
- Education and Skills Funding Agency
- Correspondence
Letter to independent training providers: February 2024
- 28 February 2024
- Education and Skills Funding Agency
- Correspondence
ESFA Update: 11 January 2023
- 12 January 2023
- Education and Skills Funding Agency
- Correspondence
Letter from Minister Halfon on the FE workforce data collection
- 5 December 2022
- Education and Skills Funding Agency
- Correspondence
Skills boost for local communities
- 25 May 2022
- Department for Education
- Press release

Malpractice in vocational and technical qualifications: academic year 2019 to 2020
- 24 August 2021
- Ofqual
- Research
Costs and cost drivers in the further education sector
- 7 February 2020
- Department for Education
- Research
Destinations of KS4 and 16 to 18 (KS5) students: 2018
- 6 February 2020
- Department for Education
- Official statistics
Destinations of KS4 and KS5 pupils: 2017
- 25 February 2019
- Department for Education
- Official statistics
Vocational qualifications archive
- 25 October 2018
- Department for Education
- Official statistics

FE workforce data collection
- 5 February 2020
- Department for Education
- Consultation outcome
- Date closed 12 June 2019
Developing an insolvency regime for the further education and sixth-form sector
- 27 October 2016
- Closed organisation: Department for Business, Innovation & Skills and Department for Education
- Consultation outcome
- Date closed 05 August 2016
Reducing bureaucratic burden: higher education
- 10 September 2020
- Department for Education and Closed organisation: Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy
- Policy paper
Improving further education workforce data: call for evidence
- 23 May 2019
- Department for Education
- Call for evidence outcome

Further education colleges in the funding simplification pilot
- 27 March 2024
- Department for Education
- Transparency
Uplift factors and postcode files
- 29 February 2024
- Education and Skills Funding Agency
- Transparency
16 to 19 subcontracting
- 19 April 2023
- Education and Skills Funding Agency
- Transparency
Further education college workforce analysis
- 29 January 2021
- Department for Education
- Transparency
Further education area reviews: example data packs
- 10 January 2017
- Department for Education
- Transparency