This guidance is for further education providers that participate in the teachers’ pension scheme. PleaseCheck checkthe eligibility section for more information.
This includes some:
general further education colleges
sixth-form colleges
designated institutions (including the new designated institutions that form part of higher education provider group structures)
special post-16 institutions
adult and community learning providers that are part of a local authority
We’ve updated the page with the new grant methodology for academic year 2025 to 2026. We’ve removed the guidance for 2023 to 2024 as this is no longer current.
7 March 2024
We have added guidance for the 2024 to 2025 academic year, and updated the 2023 to 2024 guidance to include the SCAPE rate rise from April 2024.
9 February 2023
We have updated this to include details for 2023 to 2024
9 February 2022
We have updated the guidance and confirmed the arrangements for the teachers’ pension scheme funding allocations for the 2022 to 2023 academic year.
16 February 2021
We have updated the guidance under the '2021 to 2022 academic year' section to confirm the approach that will be used to calculate the payments for the teachers' pension grant.
21 January 2021
We have added confirmation that we will pay the FE teachers’ pension scheme employer contribution grant for the full academic year 2021 to 2022.
30 January 2020
we have updated the information on payments for the 2020 to 2021 academic year
2 December 2019
We have confirmed how we will calculate and make payments for 2019 to 2020