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Adult Education Funding
Find out which Pearson qualifications are eligible for Adult Education Budget, Advanced Learner Loan Budget and Level 3 Free Courses for Jobs offer funding.
What are the different funding streams?
Qualifications and units are available in several funding streams to suit different learner requirements.
- 19-23 Entitlement funding: Level 2 and 3, qualifications only.
- 19+ Local Flexibility funding: Entry to Level 2, qualifications, units and non-regulated learning.
- English and Maths Entitlement funding: Entry to Level 2, GCSEs and Functional Skills qualifications, other English and Maths qualifications and units.
- Digital Skills Entitlement funding: Entry and Level 1, (Digital Skills Qualifications available from September 2020), for adults who don’t have the basic digital skills they need for life and work. This is fully funded.
- ESOL funding: Entry to Level 2, qualifications and units.
Increased flexibility for learners in receipt of low wage
The Adult Education Budget (AEB) low-wage trial, which started in 2018 to 2019, will continue in 2022 to 2023, enabling providers in receipt of ESFA-funded AEB to fully fund learners who are employed and in receipt of a low wage and cannot contribute towards the cost of co-funding fees. The low-wage threshold has been increased to £18,525.
This means that learners who earn less than £18,525 annual gross salary, and who are eligible for co-funding under local flexibility funding, can be fully funded. The new rule is captured in the eligibility table included in each list.
- Advanced Learner Loan funding: Level 3 to 6, qualifications only.
- Level 3 Free Courses for Jobs offer: Level 3 qualifications only
The Level 3 Free Courses for Jobs offer (previously known as the National Skills Fund) aims to help adults without Level 3, or those with a Level 3 who are unemployed or on a low wage, to gain a Level 3 qualification.
Eligible learners can take one short qualification from the Level 3 Free Courses for Jobs offer without exhausting their eligibility. 19-23-year-olds without a Level 3 can choose a qualification from the Level 3 Free Courses for Jobs offer or the AEB 19-23 entitlement list. If a 19–23-year-old completes a qualification that is on both the 19-23 legal entitlement list and the Level 3 Free Courses for Jobs offer they will have exhausted their Level 3 legal entitlement. For 19–23-year-olds, the Level 3 Free Courses for Jobs offer is funded through the AEB.
See the ESFA Adult Funding Rules 2022/23 for further information.
Find funded qualifications
Our easy-to-use funding qualification search gives you instant access to our large portfolio of eligible qualifications across a variety of sectors. To confirm any qualification-funding eligibility, check the desired qualification against our full funding list.
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If you’re already an approved centre, you just need to gain qualification approval in order to offer one of these funded qualifications. To find out how, talk to your account manager or see our qualifications approval page. If you are not yet a centre, but wish to be, please contact us.
Funding support and resources
Funded qualifications list
Get a downloadable data file of our full AEB, ALLB and Level 3 Free Courses for Jobs offer eligible qualifications for 2022/23.
Eligible qualifications by sector
View and download our funded 2022/23 qualifications list as separate PDF documents for each sector.
Adult funding factsheet
View our guide to the Adult Education Budget, Advanced Learner Loan Budget and Level 3 Free Courses for Jobs offer 2022/23.
Still have questions?
Our expert team are on hand to answer your Adult Education Funding questions.