because student numbers are growing<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\u201cThe paltry 0.5 per cent increase in the learner rate next year means that colleges and school sixth forms will be seeing a real\u2011terms cut in the amount per student that they receive.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
T-level uplift removed<\/h3>\n\n\n\n Officials have also removed the 5 per cent uplift to the national T-level funding rate for several subjects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
T-levels with technical qualifications introduced before 2022 will have their 5 per cent uplift removed in 2026-27, even if their occupational specialisms were introduced after 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The uplift was introduced to support extra costs associated with the early rollout of T-levels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This means the funding rate has dropped by 4.3 per cent from last year for T-levels in digital, construction, education and early years and health and science.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The funding rate for band 9 \u201cvery large\u201d T-levels of 1,830 total planned hours for the programme\u2019s two years will be reduced to \u00a314,772 in 2026-27 from this year\u2019s rate of \u00a315,430.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Band 8 (comprising an average 1,680 planned hours) will reduce from \u00a314,146 to \u00a313,544. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Band 7 will shrink from \u00a312,864 to \u00a312,316 and band 6 will fall from \u00a311,154 to \u00a310,680.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sitting alongside the above funding bands are three additional \u201cuplifted\u201d funding rates across bands 6 to 8.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The 5 per cent uplift has applied to T-levels in business and administration, legal, finance and accounting, engineering and manufacturing, agriculture and animal care, creative and design and marketing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The uplifted band 6 will fund the marketing, finance, accounting and legal services T-levels at \u00a311,214 per student across the two-year qualification.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Uplifted band 7 has been boosted to \u00a312,932, affecting T-levels such as management and administration, craft and design and media, broadcast and production.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Meanwhile, all three engineering and manufacturing T-levels and most routes under agriculture, environmental and animal care courses will be boosted to \u00a314,222 per student under the uplifted band 8.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ministers today confirmed plans to limit new T-levels to 1,080 guided learning hours, lower than the current minimum of 1,180 hours.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The move followed new starts data this morning showing ministers failed to meet their T-level recruitment target for 2025-26 by nearly a fifth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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