The Learning and Skills Development Agency (LSDA) was a publicly funded body in the United Kingdom that supported further education in England.
At the end of March 2006 its functions were divided into the Quality Improvement Agency (QIA) and the Learning and Skills Network (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 on 1 October 2008.
[citation needed] Before November 2000 it was known as the Further Education Development Agency (FEDA).
[citation needed] In 2006 the organization was disbanded into Quality Improvement Agency and Learning and Skills Network.