Learning Aim Reference Service

Name: Learning Aim Reference Service
Creator: Education and Skills Funding Agency
License: https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/

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Learning Aim Reference Service (LARS) offers a web based search facility. It allows users to search by most commonly used fields for Qualifications, Units, Apprenticeship Frameworks and Apprenticeship Standards and their associated validity and funding details. LARS downloads are available to allow colleges, training organisations and employers (providers) to interrogate the same LARS data set that is used in the Funding Information System (FIS).

Files & links (5)

Resource	Format	Verified	Size
Find A Learning Aim	HTML	✗ link dead
01 June 2026 Current Download (Version 12) (12/08/2026) and 01 July 2025 (version 11) (12/08/2026)	CSV	unchecked
LARS table and field definitions: version 010 (applicable from August 2024)	PDF	unchecked
LARS table and field definitions version 011 applicable from August 2025	PDF	unchecked
LARS table and field definitions version 012	PDF	↪ webpage — more clicking needed	18 KB

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