Question: How will the advanced learner loans work?

Answer passage (source: UK):
page_title: Guidance Maintaining education and skills training provision: further education providers
section_headers: Adult education budget (AEB) and advanced learner loans bursary contract for services
Education and Skills Funding Agency (ESFA), adult education budget (AEB) funding (grant funded providers) and advanced learner loans bursary fund
section_content: Year-end reconciliation
For 2019 to 2020 only, the ESFA will not carry out the final reconciliation
for grant funded providers in receipt of ESFA funded AEB (adult skills,
community learning, learner and learning support and 19 to 24 traineeships)
and the advanced learner loans bursary fund. These providers will be funded in
line with the current agreement schedule with no clawback.
Providers must:

continue to deliver learning online wherever possible including for ESFA funded AEB via existing subcontracting arrangements to support existing learners to successfully complete their courses/qualifications or retain evidence where this is not possible
support furloughed workers to enhance existing or develop new skills

Where it is not possible to deliver online, for example where learning
requires physical access to specialist equipment or materials, providers
should keep and provide records of where this applies and keep evidence of
efforts made to remain in contact with learners and prepare them for a return
to learning in the future.
However, there will be exceptions for grant funded providers who had already
forecast significant under-delivery in their mid-year returns for ESFA funded
AEB and/or advanced learner loans bursary fund, in advance of the impact of
coronavirus (COVID-19). ESFA will contact affected providers to discuss their
forecasts and potential clawback. We also reserve the right to clawback funds
where it can be demonstrated that a grant funded provider has not sought to
continue delivery wherever possible online or otherwise, either directly or
for ESFA funded AEB through their existing subcontractors.
When planning ESFA funded AEB allocations for 2021 to 2022, we will consider
how we set a fair baseline given our default position would have been to use
funded delivery in 2019 to 2020.
[ESFA]: Education Skills Funding Agency
  [AEB]: adult education budget

Reviewer feedback on this answer:
This does not talk about how the loans would work.
This offers details about funding by grants and does not discuss learner loans.

Reviewer ratings:
Bad
Bad

Answer passage (source: UK):
page_title: Guidance Maintaining education and skills training provision: further education providers
section_headers: Traineeship flexibilities
Extended programme duration up to 12 months
section_content: It is our priority to enable providers to support learners to continue with
their learning online during this period, until trainees are able to complete
their traineeship.
During this period, providers can extend the traineeship programme duration up
to 12 months where one or more of the following scenarios applies:

the learner has not completed their qualification and basic skills learning aims including employability, maths or English
the learner has completed less than 70 planned work experience hours
the provider has assessed the learner as needing further work placement hours to complete this element of their traineeship

This flexibility is offered on the basis that the trainee undertakes online or
alternative distance learning to complete other non-work experience learning
and/or alternative work experience learning part of the traineeship where
online learning is possible.
Where flexibilities are used, providers should record this and retain it as
evidence for audit purposes.
Providers delivering traineeships funded by ESFA AEB can also refer to section
‘5b Breaks in learning’ of this guidance for coronavirus (COVID-19) related
breaks in traineeship learning.
[ESFA]: Education Skills Funding Agency
  [AEB]: adult education budget

Reviewer feedback on this answer:
This does not talk about loans at all.
This only gives details about the program and does not discuss learner loans at all.

Reviewer ratings:
Bad
Bad

Answer passage (source: UK):
page_title: Guidance Maintaining education and skills training provision: further education providers
section_headers: Adult education budget (AEB) and advanced learner loans bursary contract for services
Advanced learner loans
section_content: With regard to advanced learner loans, the Student Loans Company (SLC) will
continue to make scheduled fee payments to all providers with a loans
facility. Providers must continue to inform the SLC if and when a learner’s
circumstances change.
*[SLC]: Student Loan Company

Reviewer feedback on this answer:
This directly answers the question that learner loans will continue and how.
This seems to answer the question in the most basic way.

Reviewer ratings:
Acceptable
Acceptable