The Learning and Skills Development Agency (LSDA) was a publicly funded body in the

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that supported

further education Further education (often abbreviated FE) in the United Kingdom and Ireland is education in addition to that received at secondary school, that is distinct from the higher education (HE) offered in universities and other academic institutions. I ...

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. At the end of March 2006 its functions were divided into the

Quality Improvement Agency The Quality Improvement Agency (QIA) was a non-departmental public body of the United Kingdom The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Europe, off the ...

(QIA) and the

Learning and Skills Network LSN (Learning and Skills Network) was an independent not-for-profit organisation in the United Kingdom that provided consulting, outsourcing, research, technology and training services for learning and skills. It went into administration in Nov ...

(LSN) and its trading subsidiary, Inspire Learning, better known by its brand name the Centre for Excellence in Leadership was spun-out. Inspire Leadership and QIA were re-absorbed into the same corporate entity, the

Learning and Skills Improvement Service The Learning and Skills Improvement Service (LSIS) was a not-for-profit company limited by guarantee and registered Charitable organization, charity formed in 2008 to support and improve achievement in the Further Education and Skills sector in En ...

on 1 October 2008. Before November 2000 it was known as the Further Education Development Agency (FEDA). FEDA was established in 1995 to support the further education community in England, as a result of a merger between the Further Education Unit and the Staff College. The role of the LSDA was to support post-16 education in England,

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and

Northern Ireland Northern Ireland ( ga, Tuaisceart Éireann ; sco, label= Ulster-Scots, Norlin Airlann) is a part of the United Kingdom, situated in the north-east of the island of Ireland, that is variously described as a country, province or region. Nort ...

(but not in

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, where there is a different organisational framework for education). In Wales the organisation was known as ''Dysg''. It was absorbed into the

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LSDA Northern Ireland LSDA Northern Ireland (LSDA NI) was part of the ''Learning and Skills Network (LSN''), with a role to support all forms of post-16 education and training in Northern Ireland. LSDA Northern Ireland operated from an office in Alfred House, Alfred ...

continued as a subsidiary company of LSN. In 2006 the organization was disbanded into ''

'' and ''

''.

References

External links

Learning and Skills Development Agency Homepage
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