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Find out how to apply for a free qualification that could help you gain skills and improve your wage and job prospects.

• Updated: 29 July 2025

Find and apply for a further or adult education course and work out what financial help you can get

• Overview

  Further education (FE) includes any study after secondary education that’s…

• Find a course

  Use the National Careers Service course search to find further education…

• If you're 16 or 17

  If you’re aged 16 or 17 you can study a further education (FE) course:…

• Financial help

  You may be able to get help with the costs of: your course day-to-day…

Explore this quality-assured free learning civil servants can do or book now to get the skills they need to deliver brilliant services.

• Updated: 27 January 2026

Find out about and apply for higher education courses, including full-time, part-time, Open University, teacher training, postgraduate, music, dance and drama courses.

Find out what vocational or academic courses and qualifications are available at schools, colleges and sixth forms in your area

Find courses and training online with the National Careers Service and get advice on funding the costs of learning

Student finance for most undergraduate and some postgraduate and further education courses starting on or after 1 January 2027. Information about student loans, grants and extra funding to help cover course tuition fees and living costs.

Criteria that qualifications in the free courses for jobs offer need to meet.

• Updated: 12 December 2025

Apply for a higher education course, track your application and accept or reject your offers.

• Updated: 21 December 2017

Resources and training to learn English.

• Updated: 3 November 2025