About us - About The YPLA, Skills Funding Agency and DBIS
The Young People's Learning Agency (YPLA) and Skills Funding Agency are non-department publicly-funded organisations funded by the Department fro Business Innovation and Skills (DBIS) with a single goal: to improve the skills of England's young people and adults to ensure we have a workforce of world-class standard.
The YPLA and Skills Funding Agency fund all learning for young people, aged 16-19 in colleges, schools and training providers, ensuring they have a full range of high quality courses to choose from, so that they gain the skills and qualifications they need to progress into further learning, including Higher Education, and employment.
The YPLA, Skills Funding Agency and DBIS's major tasks are to:
- raise participation and achievement by young people
- increase adult demand for learning
- raise skills levels for national competitiveness
- improve the quality of education and training delivery
- equalise opportunities through better access to learning
- improve the effectiveness and efficiency of the FE sector
The YPLA, Skills Funding Agency and DBIS have commissioned OpinionPanel to set up The Learner Panel to enable research to be carried out with people in learning and training via online questionnaires.
