- Join us now and line up your learners for funded international placements!
We provide free support to FE organisations to bid for Turing funding. We work with independent training providers, along with colleges and apprenticeship organisations.
Our support for partners covers everything from grant applications to co-ordinating international placement delivery.
We want to do our bit to promote international opportunities for organisations across the UK FE sector.
Our team provide this support for free. Our partner organisation receives payment through the DfE grant only if your learners participate in the global trip (see their site www.goto.co)
For free: we will support you to bid for Turing Scheme funding (get in touch now - the bid submission deadline is 14/3/25!)
For free: we are happy to consult and guide you on how your organisation can benefit from the fantastic Turing Scheme
For free: once we win you the funding, our expert partners will end-to-end manage all aspects of the international placement, including placements, accommodation, insurance, flights, pastoral support, and more.
Further Afield is a non-profit membership organisation for independent learning providers, colleges and even universities.
We are Turing Scheme experts for overseas education placements. Our leadership team have hosted 3,000+ UK students on Turing Scheme projects since the first year (2021-22).
Our bid-writers have won bids in years 1,2,3 of the Scheme. Let us support you to bid for funding now.
Partner with us to give access to these opportunities for your learners!
Work with us now, afterall its free! Our partner organisation is only paid if placements take place. If placements don’t run, then ofcourse all of our support will have been provided for free.
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The foundation that underpins the international opportunities that we plan to offer to our members is funding from the Turing Scheme. This is the UK’s programme for studying, working & living abroad, offering opportunities for personal and professional student development to bridge the gap between education and work. More info here.
Our team are now entering the 5th year of the Turing Scheme.
Funding is generously offered to all students on eligible UK FE courses.
Short internships and longer apprenticeships.
We arrange 2,4,8, or 12 week global work placements in education settings across Thailand, Vietnam, China.
Everything is arranged for the learner and our network partner’s coordinators provide constant support.
We also offer 6-12 month roles for graduates of apprenticeships and bootcamps. As part of this learners will be guided through an Ofqual L3-5 TEFL course. These take place in Thailand. Apprentices will join in groups of 20-30 adults for these opportunities.
Our placement provision partner’s expertise is broad -with hosts all over the world. Their coordinator team work across a network of over 100 partners.
Our founding team setup this project while studying Chinese together at Oxford -we then ran projects there for a decade! Projects in China can be extremely rewarding but owing to various hurdles are rarely available with UK organisations, we are proud of our uniqueness in offering coverage for projects in China!
FurtherAfield serves the further education sector.
Our mission is to widen access to international opportunities for FE sector institutions and their learners, with a particular focus on the Turing Scheme.
We are a non-profit organisation representing independent FE sector learning providers. Partner with us today!
Further Afield is an initiative led by Gotoco Ltd, the goal is to mobilise the FE sector towards fantastic opportunities for international placements offered by the Turing Scheme. Gotoco are award-winning, and very experienced in delivering safe, fun and educational placements. See their Trustpilot and Instagram for more info.
