ESFA Update further education: 24 January 2024
Published 24 January 2024
Applies to England
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1. Action: complete your In Year Spend Report for your 16 to 19 tuition fund academic year 2023 to 2024 by Friday 26 January
All providers in receipt of 16 to 19 tuition funding for academic year 2023 to 2024 need to submit the In Year Spend Report by 5pm on Friday 26 January 2024.
We have published guidance to help you access and complete the form. It is important that you complete and submit your return as this is part of your funding requirements.
After the closing date for returns, we will consider whether there is scope to increase some providers’ allocations as we did in academic year 2022 to 2023. If we do, only providers that have submitted a return and forecast spending 100% of their allocation will be eligible to receive additional funding.
If you are forecasting spending 100% of your tuition fund allocation, and believe you could deliver more tutoring within this academic year if your allocation was increased, please indicate this on your form.
2. Reminder: deadline approaching: Taking Teaching Further 2023 recruit registration window closes on 31 January 2024
If you have successfully registered for Taking Teaching Further (TTF) 2023, you must submit any outstanding recruit registration form(s) by Wednesday 31 January 2024.
Below are a couple of ‘top tips’ to consider as you complete the registration form(s):
- locate your recruit registration form
- check your recruit(s) meets all the eligibility criteria outlined in the relevant guidance document (pages 13 and 14)
- provide an answer for each prompt within a question, for example, in addition to the job title, please include details about the role recruited to, such as the level they will be teaching
If you need a new recruit registration form, have any questions about the registration process, or you want to discuss a recruit in more detail, please email [email protected]. You can read more information regarding the tuition fund and conditions of funding on GOV.UK.
3. Reminder: check your provisional qualification achievement rates (QARs) (2022 to 2023) before data query window closure on 31 January 2024
Provisional qualification achievement rates have been released on view your education data, where you will find:
- a QAR dashboard that uses your ILR data from the R14 return to show your rates
- a QAR data download to show your learner level information
On reviewing this provisional data, you will have until 5pm on Wednesday 31 January 2024 to inform us of any concerns about how we have implemented our published methodology. Note: You cannot request fixes or adjustments to your 2022 to 2023 Individualised Learner Record (ILR) data.
3.1 Further support
If you have any queries, download and complete the query form from the QAR guidance page, referencing the data from the data downloads. Submit the completed form via our enquiry page, selecting the QAR ‘query type’.