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Register to vote Register by 18 June to vote in the General Election on 4 July.
How to employ an apprentice, what's expected of you and what funding you can get.
Find and apply for a further or adult education course and work out what financial help you can get
Your responsibilities with your local council if you want to educate your child at home - sometimes called home schooling
Improve skills like reading, writing, maths or Information and Communication Technology (ICT) - courses, qualifications, find a course and help
School closures happen because of an emergency like severe weather - check whether your child's school is closed on your local council website.
Get in touch with the Department for Education (DfE).
Funding and university courses for mature students - entry requirements, find courses, student finance
Find out what vocational or academic courses and qualifications are available at schools, colleges and sixth forms in your area
Travel grants for students including medical and dental students - travel costs, Erasmus placements, how to apply, eligibility, travel expenses forms.
Postgraduate funding for overseas students studying in the UK: types of scholarship, eligibility, how to apply
Education Maintenance Allowance (EMA) if you're studying in Northern Ireland, Scotland or Wales
Search for a job in teaching or education in England, including jobs in leadership, education support and special educational needs and disabilities (SEND).
Find and apply for a college or university course - full time, part time, post graduate, UCAS, Unistats, National Careers Service, Open University, CUKAS
Where to find internships and work placements.
Adult Dependants' Grant for full-time students who financially support an adult - funding, how to apply, eligibility.
Support and benefits you can get if you're looking after someone else's child, court orders - kinship care, private fostering, friends and family care
Foster carers look after children when their parents are not able to - becoming a foster carer, money and support available, fostering agencies, foster parents
Schools can sanction pupils or exclude them - find out what schools are allowed to do, like search pupils for knives or drugs
Complain about a teacher - who can complain, how to complain, report teacher misconduct, attend a teacher misconduct hearing
Bullying at school and the law - what your school and the police must do about bullying and how you should report it
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