Learning Aim Reference Service

• Published by: Education and Skills Funding Agency
• Last updated: 26 June 2026
• Topic: Education
• Licence: Open Government Licence

Summary

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).

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Link to the data	Format	File added	Data preview
LARS table and field definitions version 012	PDF	11 June 2026	Not available
LARS table and field definitions version 011 applicable from August 2025	PDF	01 July 2025	Not available
LARS table and field definitions: version 010 (applicable from August 2024)	PDF	29 May 2024	Not available
01 June 2026 Current Download (Version 12) (25/06/2026) and 01 July 2025 (version 11) (25/06/2026)	CSV	12 August 2019	Preview
Find A Learning Aim	HTML	06 November 2017	Not available

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