List of colleges taking part in the further education simplification pilot
Published 27 March 2024
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The further education funding simplification pilot will open at the start of the 2024 to 2025 academic year.
These colleges will take part in it:
- Basingstoke College of Technology
- The Bedford College Group
- Bridgwater and Taunton College
- Exeter College
- Loughborough College
- Middlesbrough College
- Sunderland College (Part of Education Partnership North East)
- TEC Partnership
What the pilot involves
The pilot will test ways of simplifying funding, audit and reporting.
The Department for Education will:
- reduce funding rules
- give colleges more flexibility over funding rules and some ringfences
- allow colleges to provide Skills Bootcamps without bidding for funding through procurement
- make adult skills funding more predictable
- simplify how we audit and assure further education funding
- simplify data processing
- aim to simplify processes for apprenticeships
- use the pilot to judge whether to make the changes more widely
Colleges may be able to get more Skills Bootcamps funding if they already have Skills Bootcamps contracts.