Adult education and skills funding allocations

Adult education and skills funding allocations 

We use this page to explain how we allocate funding for: 

advanced learner loans facilities and bursaries 

We will provide updates as we move through the funding allocation cycle and issue all allocations through manage your education and skills funding. 

We explain how we calculate your funding allocations in our technical guidance when we start to issue the allocations. We calculate allocations annually using nationally consistent methodologies, taking into account the current policy position and affordability. 

The general principles we typically follow when setting allocations are to: 

reflect historic (lagged) delivery and current allocations to ensure that future allocations are in line with what providers can realistically earn 

ensure that we treat all providers fairly and equitably 

protect public funds and meet principles of public law 

enable providers to respond to government priorities 

Information for academic year 2026 to 2027 

Our funding allocation guidance will help you to understand how we’ve calculated your funding and what data sources we have used. 

We will publish calculators to help you understand your allocation value. 

We will publish updates to the timeline as we deliver funding allocations. The latest news column on the timeline shows updates. 

Business cases for significant data errors 

You should only submit a business case if you: 

have made significant data errors that have affected your funding allocation 

had a contract value for funding year 2025 to 2026 but did not use it and therefore you have not received a 2026 to 2027 allocation 

want to request a reduced allocation amount or remove allocation

We do not accept requests for growth or cases that are not related to data errors. 

Submit your business case using our digital form after reading our form guidance.

We apply standard minimum thresholds to decide whether we will consider a case.