How to Enrol

COURSE FEES

Secure your place

In order to secure your place on a fee-paying course you will need to pay for your course when you enrol. You can pay in a number of ways:

• By secure online payment
• By cash
• By cheque (made payable to Stockton Borough Council)
• By credit/debit card (All major credit cards accepted)

Free Courses 

Many of our courses are offered FREE, including the following:

• English
• Maths
• Distance Learning Level 2
• Family Learning
• Employability
• Confidence Building
• Beginners ICT courses.

ESOL enrolments will be assessed on an individual basis.

Learners aged 19-23 will be entitled to free tuition if they are:

• studying a full Level 2 qualification if they do not already have a full Level 2 qualification, or
• studying a full Level 3 qualification if they do not already have a full Level 3 qualification.

For further information visit the qualifications and public funding page on the GOV.UK website.

Where a course fee applies to a funded course, there will be no fee for learners in receipt of:

• Job Seekers Allowances (JSA) (inc partner where claim is joint)
• Employment Support Allowance in the work related activity group (ESA)
• Universal Credit (work group, work related requirement, work preparation or work-focussed interview organised by JCP)
• A low wage (£33,210 or less gross annual salary). Three months wage slips or current employment contract stating gross monthly or annual wage must be submitted as evidence.

Where a course fee applies to a funded course the following groups are able to claim approx. 50% remission of full fee.(Fee band-subsidised) those in receipt of:

• Council Tax Benefit – Not including sole occupancy allowance
• Housing Benefit
• Working Tax Credit
• Pension Guarantee Credit
• Universal credit
• Contribution based Employment and Support Allowance
• The unwaged dependants (as defined by the Department for Work and Pensions) of those listed above.