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# Apply for a further education course

Find a suitable further-education course and follow the provider's admission and funding route.

Stable family ID
  `apply-for-further-education-course`
Domain
  Further education, university and research
Enclosing process
  Enter and fund post-school study
Population gate
  complete
Specialist review
  required
Useful terms
  find a college course; apply for FE study
Example situations
  A learner wants study after secondary education outside an undergraduate or graduate degree.

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## Official source handoffs

- Further education courses and funding — Department for Education; England; observed 2026-08-08.
- Further and higher education in Scotland — Scottish Government; Scotland; observed 2026-08-08.
- Further and higher education in Wales — Welsh Government; Wales; observed 2026-08-08.
- Higher education in Northern Ireland — Northern Ireland Executive; Northern Ireland; observed 2026-08-08.

## Complete governed family record

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          "find a college course",
          "apply for FE study"
        ],
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          {
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              {
                "id": "england-current-official-route",
                "primary_source": "apply-for-further-education-course-primary",
                "provider": "organisation:england-official-route-provider",
                "route_kind": "topic-specific-authoritative-page"
              }
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            "state": "supported"
          },
          {
            "jurisdiction": "Scotland",
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                "primary_source": "post-school-study-scotland-handoff",
                "provider": "organisation:scotland-official-route-provider",
                "route_kind": "authoritative-national-discovery-handoff"
              }
            ],
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            ],
            "state": "supported"
          },
          {
            "jurisdiction": "Wales",
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                "id": "wales-current-official-route",
                "primary_source": "post-school-study-wales-handoff",
                "provider": "organisation:wales-official-route-provider",
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              }
            ],
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            ],
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          },
          {
            "jurisdiction": "Northern Ireland",
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                "provider": "organisation:northern-ireland-official-route-provider",
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          }
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        "assertion_status": "normalized",
        "description": "Find a suitable further-education course and follow the provider's admission and funding route.",
        "domain": {
          "id": "further-education-university-research",
          "route": "life-course-domain/further-education-university-research",
          "title": "Further education, university and research"
        },
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            },
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                },
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                  "state": "not_published_by_source"
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                  "state": "not_published_by_source"
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                "outcome": {
                  "state": "supported",
                  "summary": "The user can continue without assuming four-nation equivalence."
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                "output": {
                  "state": "supported",
                  "summary": "A current authoritative route and provider handoff."
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                "redress": {
                  "state": "supported",
                  "summary": "Use the complaint, review or urgent route published by the selected authority."
                },
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                  "precedes_next": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/d26a1807d20245300ed02236",
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                      "resource_route": "resource/apply-for-further-education-course-apply-for-further-education-course-primary",
                      "source_id": "apply-for-further-education-course-primary"
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                      "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/362983c69faef65659d2c305",
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                      "source_id": "post-school-study-scotland-handoff"
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                      "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/9c7b4812cf2c62c747eb4aaa",
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                      "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/17dd9f5b6e834bfae2ed7d3d",
                      "resource_route": "resource/apply-for-further-education-course-post-school-study-northern-ireland-handoff",
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              },
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                },
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                },
                "output": {
                  "state": "supported",
                  "summary": "Source-defined confirmation, referral, decision or next-step information."
                },
                "provider": "organisation:selected-authoritative-provider",
                "redress": {
                  "state": "supported",
                  "summary": "Escalate through the current provider's review, complaint or statutory redress route."
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                  "follows_previous": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/58c9b130196be5150d8a040c",
                  "sources": [
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                      "source_id": "apply-for-further-education-course-primary"
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                      "resource_route": "resource/apply-for-further-education-course-post-school-study-scotland-handoff",
                      "source_id": "post-school-study-scotland-handoff"
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                      "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/82beff7bd36d229ad9c6d9b4",
                      "resource_route": "resource/apply-for-further-education-course-post-school-study-wales-handoff",
                      "source_id": "post-school-study-wales-handoff"
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                      "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/4b0e396c5d602c11a21d867b",
                      "resource_route": "resource/apply-for-further-education-course-post-school-study-northern-ireland-handoff",
                      "source_id": "post-school-study-northern-ireland-handoff"
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                "requirements": {
                  "state": "supported",
                  "summary": "The source-linked route identifies the responsible service and publishes the current requirements, evidence, channel, costs and timing for that jurisdiction."
                },
                "route": "service-step/apply-for-further-education-course-ordinary-source-linked-route-follow-current-official-instructions",
                "rule": {
                  "state": "supported",
                  "summary": "The responsible authority or provider decides the real case."
                },
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                  "apply-for-further-education-course-primary",
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                  "post-school-study-wales-handoff",
                  "post-school-study-northern-ireland-handoff"
                ],
                "time": {
                  "reason": "Timing is deliberately not generalized across routes.",
                  "state": "not_published_by_source"
                }
              }
            ],
            "title": "Ordinary source linked route"
          },
          {
            "entry_state": "The standard route is unavailable, does not fit, or indicates an urgent or specialist boundary.",
            "id": "exception-or-route-failure",
            "kind": "exception",
            "order": 1,
            "outcome": "The accountable exception, urgent or redress route is identified without making the decision locally.",
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            },
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                },
                "cost": {
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                  "state": "not_published_by_source"
                },
                "evidence": {
                  "reason": "The responsible authority states what evidence is needed for the exception.",
                  "state": "not_published_by_source"
                },
                "id": "resolve-route-boundary-or-failure",
                "interaction": "Stop and use the current authority's exception, urgent, safeguarding or complaint handoff when the ordinary route does not fit.",
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                "outcome": {
                  "state": "supported",
                  "summary": "The user is handed to the accountable route without a fabricated answer."
                },
                "output": {
                  "state": "supported",
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                },
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                "redress": {
                  "state": "supported",
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                },
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                      "source_id": "post-school-study-scotland-handoff"
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                      "resource_route": "resource/apply-for-further-education-course-post-school-study-wales-handoff",
                      "source_id": "post-school-study-wales-handoff"
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                      "resource_route": "resource/apply-for-further-education-course-post-school-study-northern-ireland-handoff",
                      "source_id": "post-school-study-northern-ireland-handoff"
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                "requirements": {
                  "state": "supported",
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                "rule": {
                  "state": "supported",
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                "time": {
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            "title": "Exception or route failure"
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        "interaction_boundary": "Source-linked discovery and process navigation only; the bundle does not decide eligibility, diagnosis, treatment, safeguarding action or legal outcome.",
        "limitations": [
          "Original summaries and links only; no upstream source response or snapshot is retained.",
          "A national discovery handoff locates the current route but does not establish a leaf rule, eligibility condition, cost or deadline.",
          "Jurisdictions, providers and exceptions remain separate even where labels are similar.",
          "Specialist review is required before legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claims are release-grade."
        ],
        "narrative": {
          "body": "# Apply for a further education course\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Enter and fund post-school study** in the **Further education, university and research** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nFind a suitable further-education course and follow the provider's admission and funding route.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\nWhere a non-public provider is needed, start with the current public regulator, register or commissioning route; this bundle does not recommend providers.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: Further education courses and funding](https://www.gov.uk/further-education-courses)\n- [Scotland: Further and higher education in Scotland](https://www.mygov.scot/browse/education-training)\n- [Wales: Further and higher education in Wales](https://www.gov.wales/education-skills)\n- [Northern Ireland: Higher education in Northern Ireland](https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/information-and-services/education/higher-education)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Enter and fund post-school study**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.",
          "process_context": "Enter and fund post-school study",
          "source": "services/apply-for-further-education-course.md",
          "title": "Apply for a further education course within Enter and fund post-school study"
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