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Find and apply for a further or adult education course and work out what financial help you can get
Further education (FE) includes any study after secondary education that’s…
Use the National Careers Service course search to find further education…
If you’re aged 16 or 17 you can study a further education (FE) course:…
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Information about the range of help and support available from the FE Commissioner, Department for Education and delivery partners.
Guidance documents and tools to help with the design and construction of school and further education college buildings and grounds.
The £15 million SCIF provided grants to colleges that needed to improve the quality of their provision of education and training.
This information allows further education colleges, sixth form colleges, and designated institutions established under the provisions of the Further and Higher Education Act 1992 to compare their financial data with national totals and other colleges and organisations.
Guidance and tools to help you understand and analyse your school or college's performance.
Help with term-time accommodation when you're studying away from home - what you'll get, eligibility, how to claim.
Letters issued to general further education colleges, sixth-form colleges and higher education institutions with a notice to improve.
Find the discounts and concessions that are available in your area for travel to school sixth form or college through your local council website
Check school performance tables (‘league tables’), Ofsted reports and financial information.
Information for further education and sixth-form college governors
Summary reports and letters, issued to sixth-form colleges that are subject to government intervention, that serve to drive improvement at colleges.
Information that academies, including free schools, colleges and any educational institution with academy arrangements, must or should publish on their websites.
Professional development, support and guidance to improve the performance of FE and sixth-form colleges.
Complain about a further education college, business providing apprenticeships or other adult education institution - complaints process, when to complain to the Education and Skills Funding Agency (ESFA)
The National College for Teaching and Leadership (NCTL) has been repurposed and no longer exists. Regulation of the teaching profession, including misconduct hearings, will continue to be handled by an executive agency of the Department for Education, the Teaching Regulation...
Find out what help you can get to develop a whole school or college approach to mental health and wellbeing.
The Fire Service College (FSC) supplies specialist fire and rescue training to the UK’s own fire and rescue services, the private security sector and the international market. The college was formerly an executive agency of the Department for Communities and...
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