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National Careers Service: course directory

The course directory contains information on courses offered by learning providers who are publicly funded to deliver courses in England.

Applies to England

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The National Careers Service Find a course service contains information on courses offered by learning providers. It contains information from over 2,700 organisations including colleges, schools, training providers and local authorities.

Courses featured include those aimed at people aged 16 to 18, and adults.

The file is updated monthly. It contains all courses in the service which have a:

  • start date on or after the first day of the month preceding the month of publication
  • flexible start date

Data published since October 2024 is available on the UK Government Web Archive.

Data published before October 2024 is also available.

For any questions about using the data in the files, contact support@coursedirectory.org.uk.

Updates to this page

Published 12 September 2014
Last updated 7 February 2025 + show all updates
  1. Added 'Live course providers: January 2025' and 'Live courses with regions and venues: January 2025'. Removed the files for October 2024 and added a link to the UK Government Web Archive.

  2. Added 'Live course providers: December 2024' and 'Live courses with regions and venues: December 2024'.

  3. First published.

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