Further Education: Finance

(asked on 5th March 2026) - View Source

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what was the funding per student in English further education colleges in 2010, 2024 and 2025-26.


Answered by
Josh MacAlister Portrait
Josh MacAlister
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Education)
This question was answered on 2nd April 2026

The table below uses the published 16 to 19 funding allocations to derive the average total programme funding per student in general further education (FE) colleges, for the 2024/25 and 2025/26 academic years. The figures are not available for 2010 to 2011.

Average funding per student in general FE colleges

2024/25

£6,753

2025/26

£7,419

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