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Payment options

The fee for staff is £210.

Under ECDL rules you have three years to complete all seven modules, from the date of your first successful test.

Completion of ECDL incurs substantial costs including the ECDL electronic logbook, fees for sitting the seven tests and self-teach materials. 
You have five payment options:

  1. Pay the £210 with your own or departmental money (depending on your circumstances). 
  2. Pay in staged payments:
    • Stage 1: join ECDL paying a fee of £70. This covers your electronic logbook and a pack of self-teach materials
    • Stage 2: pay for each test in the seven ECDL modules as you sit them, at a fee of £20 per test.
  3. Pay using an ILA - if you are over 18 and living in Scotland, you could get up to £200 towards the cost of learning new skills with an individual learning account from ILA Scotland.
    • ILA Scotland is a Scottish Executive scheme which helps you pay for learning that you can do at a time, place, pace and in a way to suit you.  If you earn £18,000 or less, you could get up to £200 per year towards the cost of learning. 
    • You must be ordinarily resident in Scotland to make your application to ILA Scotland.
      • Ordinarily resident means that you live in Scotland year after year by choice, apart from temporary or occasional absences such as holidays or business trips. Living here totally or mainly for the purpose of receiving full-time education does not count as being ordinarily resident. If you are not a UK national, you must be settled in Scotland (as set out in the Immigration Act 1971) immediately before the date on which you made your application.
    • If you have not been living in Scotland because you are employed abroad in the armed forces, you will still be able to apply. 
    • Get further information at ILA Scotland homepage
  4. Pay using your Learning Works allowance.  The allowance is currently £150.  This would pay for registration for ECDL and 4 tests.  The remaining £60 could then either be paid personally, or partially from the following year's Learning Works allowance.  Further details on how to do this will be supplied following your registration of interest.
  5. Pay using a combination of both ILA and Learning Works allowance.

All those interested in ECDL should complete our "registration of interest" form. This is nothing more than an expression of interest in ECDL, but it lets us keep you informed of the latest developments in ECDL and funding, and how to proceed to sign up formally and begin ECDL.

If you intend to apply for an ILA or Learning Works allowance, you will then be directed to UTS (Universal Training Solutions) on 0141 330 5857 (they administer both ILAs and the Learning Works Scheme), who will explain the financial application procedure and on successful application will forward the payment to IT Services.