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Guidance

Teachers' pension scheme employer contribution grant: further education providers

Guidance on how we allocate funding for this grant.

Updates to this page

From:
Department for Education
Published:
10 April 2019
Last updated:
8 July 2026
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  1. Updated 'Teachers' pension scheme employer contribution grant: further education providers academic year 2026 to 2027' to reflect a decrease in employer contribution rates.

  2. Update added about a reduction in teachers' pension scheme contributions from April 2027.

  3. Added 'Teachers' pension scheme employer contribution grant: further education providers academic year 2026 to 2027'. Removed 'Teachers' pension scheme employer contribution grant: further education providers academic year 2024 to 2025'.

  4. We’ve updated the page with the new grant methodology for academic year 2025 to 2026. We’ve removed the guidance for 2023 to 2024 as this is no longer current.

  5. We have added guidance for the 2024 to 2025 academic year, and updated the 2023 to 2024 guidance to include the SCAPE rate rise from April 2024.

  6. We have updated this to include details for 2023 to 2024

  7. We have updated the guidance and confirmed the arrangements for the teachers’ pension scheme funding allocations for the 2022 to 2023 academic year.

  8. We have updated the guidance under the '2021 to 2022 academic year' section to confirm the approach that will be used to calculate the payments for the teachers' pension grant.

  9. We have added confirmation that we will pay the FE teachers’ pension scheme employer contribution grant for the full academic year 2021 to 2022.

  10. we have updated the information on payments for the 2020 to 2021 academic year

  11. We have confirmed how we will calculate and make payments for 2019 to 2020

  12. First published.

Applies to England

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Teachers' pension scheme employer contribution grant: further education providers academic year 2026 to 2027

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Teachers' pension scheme employer contribution grant: further education providers academic year 2025 to 2026

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July 2026 update

Employer contributions to the teachers’ pension scheme will reduce from April 2027. This means there will be a reduction in costs to education institutions. We will therefore reduce the payments through the teachers’ pension scheme employer contribution grant for further education providers from April 2027. This will reduce the allocations which were issued to institutions for academic year 2026 to 2027. There will be no overall reduction in the sector’s spending power from the pensions changes as the reduced funding will be balanced by reduced costs.

Further details are given in the grant conditions for 2026 to 2027.

About this guidance

This guidance is for further education providers that participate in the teachers’ pension scheme. Check the eligibility section for more information.  

This includes some: 

  • general further education colleges 
  • sixth-form colleges 
  • designated institutions (including the new designated institutions that form part of higher education provider group structures) 
  • special post-16 institutions 
  • adult and community learning providers that are part of a local authority

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