A “significant” boost to national adult education budget funding has been announced for this academic year and next to help ease financial and delivery challenges faced by the sector.
In 2022/23 and 2023/24, the Education and Skills Funding Agency will apply a 20 per cent uplift on top of earnings for AEB-funded provision in six subjects.
The six areas are: engineering, manufacturing technologies, transport operations and maintenance, building and construction, ICT for practitioners, and mathematics and statistics.
This will be in addition to a 2.2 per cent increase to the final earnings for all AEB formula-funded provision – excluding associated learner and learning support.
