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National Careers Service: course directory

The course directory contains information on courses offered by learning providers who are publicly funded to deliver courses in England.

Updates to this page

From:
Department for Education
Published:
12 September 2014
Last updated:
28 August 2026
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  1. Added 'Live course providers: August 2026' and 'Live courses with regions and venues: August 2026'. Removed the files for May 2026 – these are available in the National Archives.

  2. Added 'Live course providers: July 2026' and 'Live courses with regions and venues: July 2026'. Removed the files for April 2026 – these are available in the National Archives.

  3. 'Live course providers: June 2026' and 'Live courses with regions and venues: June 2026'. Removed the files for March 2026 - these are available in the National Archives.

  4. Added 'Live course providers: May 2026' and 'Live courses with regions and venues: May 2026'. Removed the files for February 2026 - these are available in the National Archives.

  5. Added 'Live course providers: April 2026' and 'Live courses with regions and venues: April 2026'. Removed the files for January 2026 – these are available in the National Archives.

  6. Added 'Live course providers: March 2026' and 'Live courses with regions and venues: March 2026'. Removed the files for December 2025 – these are available in the National Archives.

  7. Added 'Live course providers: February 2026' and 'Live courses with regions and venues: February 2026'. Removed the files for November 2025, these are available in the UK Government Web Archives.

  8. Added 'Live course providers: January 2026' and 'Live courses with regions and venues: January 2026'. Removed the files for October 2025.

  9. Added 'Live course providers: December 2025' and 'Live courses with regions and venues: December 2025'. Removed the files for September 2025.

  10. Added live course providers for November 2025 and removed the files for August 2025.

  11. Added live course providers for October 2025 and removed the files for July 2025.

  12. Added live course providers for September 2025 and removed the files for June 2025.

  13. Added live course providers for August 2025 and removed the files for May 2025.

  14. Added live course providers for July 2025 and removed the files for April 2025.

  15. Added live course providers for June 2025 and removed the files for March 2025.

  16. Added 'Live course providers with regions and venues: May 2025' and 'Live course providers: May 2025'.

  17. Added 'Live course providers with regions and venues: April 2025' and 'Live course providers: April 2025'.

  18. Added 'Live course providers with regions and venues: March 2025' and 'Live course providers: March 2025'.

  19. Added 'Live course providers: February 2025' and 'Live courses with regions and venues: February 2025'.

  20. Added 'Live course providers: January 2025' and 'Live courses with regions and venues: January 2025'. Removed the files for October 2024 and added a link to the UK Government Web Archive.

  21. Added 'Live course providers: December 2024' and 'Live courses with regions and venues: December 2024'.

  22. First published.

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Live course providers: August 2026 (accessible)

MS Excel Spreadsheet, 251 KB

Live course providers: August 2026

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Live courses with regions and venues: August 2026 (accessible)

MS Excel Spreadsheet, 38.9 MB

Live courses with regions and venues: August 2026

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Live course providers: July 2026 (accessible)

MS Excel Spreadsheet, 245 KB

Live course providers: July 2026

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Live courses with regions and venues: July 2026 (accessible)

MS Excel Spreadsheet, 42.5 MB

Live courses with regions and venues: July 2026

CSV, 95.3 MB

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Live course providers: June 2026 (accessible)

MS Excel Spreadsheet, 247 KB

Live course providers: June 2026

CSV, 257 KB

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Live courses with regions and venues: June 2026 (accessible)

MS Excel Spreadsheet, 37.7 MB

Live courses with regions and venues: June 2026

CSV, 94.9 MB

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Details

The National Careers Service Find a course service contains information on courses offered by learning providers. It contains information from more than 2,700 organisations including colleges, schools, training providers and local authorities. The courses featured include those aimed at young people aged 16 to 18 and at adults.

The files are updated monthly. They contain all courses in the service that have a:

  • start date on or after the first day of the month preceding the month of publication
  • flexible start date

Data published since October 2024 is available in the National Archives.

Data published before October 2024 is also available.

For any questions about using the data in the files, contact support@coursedirectory.org.uk.

The .csv files are intended for automated processing and may not fully meet Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG). To support accessibility, we have also provided user-friendly Excel spreadsheet versions.

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