Glossary
Advanced learner loan
A loan available to adults to pay the fees for eligible qualifications, repaid by the learner rather than funded through an allocation.
In full
Advanced learner loans let eligible adults borrow to pay course fees for qualifications at specified levels. The provider is paid by the Student Loans Company against the learner's loan.
Loan-funded learning is recorded in the ILR but sits outside the formula-funded allocation, and has its own eligibility and evidence requirements.
Where this comes up
diagnostic
Advanced Learner Loans (ALB) must not have more than one Learning Delivery FAM record with the same Learning Delivery FAM Date From
For new starts on or after 1 August 2026, where there is more than one record of Learning Delivery FAM type Advanced Learner Loans Bursary (ALB), the records must not have the same Learning Delivery FAM Date From.
diagnostic
All Advanced Learner Loan and Loans Bursary Fund learners
All Advanced Learner Loan and Loans Bursary Fund learners. Review areas: Subcontracting.
diagnostic
Learners with prior attainment below level 3 funded by an Advanced Learner Loan
Learners with prior attainment below level 3 funded by an Advanced Learner Loan. Review areas: Appropriateness of enrolment.
diagnostic
The Advanced Learner Loans Bursary fund indicator is not required for this Funding model
If the learning aim is not funded by Funding model 99, then the Advanced Learner Loans Bursary fund indicator must not be returned
diagnostic
The Advanced Learner Loans indicator must be completed where the Advanced Learner Loans Bursary funding indicator has been returned
If the Advanced Learner Loans Bursary funding indicator has been returned, then there must be a Advanced Learner Loans indicator
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The Advanced Learner Loans indicator must not be returned for apprenticeships
If the learning aim is part of an apprenticeship programme, then the Advanced Learner Loans indicator must not be returned