Education, training and skills

Schools and academies, further and higher education, apprenticeships and other skills training, student funding, early years.

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Services

1. Student finance login

   Your student finance online account - check payment dates, track an application, change details, reset password, find customer reference numbers

2. Student finance

   Student finance - student loans or student grants for tuition fees and living costs, extra help, student loan repayments

3. Apply for free school meals

   Check if your child can get free school meals - and find out how to apply on your local authority’s website

4. Apply online for student finance

   Apply online for student finance - online applications for student finance including Tuition Fee Loans, Maintenance Loans and Grants.

5. Find an apprenticeship

   Register your profile, search vacancies and apply for an apprenticeship - you must be 16 or over

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Guidance and regulation

1. Coronavirus (COVID-19): school closures
   • Guidance
   • 9 April 2020
   • Department for Education
2. Coronavirus (COVID-19): Closure of educational settings: information for parents and carers
   • Guidance
   • 7 April 2020
   • Department for Education
3. Coronavirus (COVID-19): guidance on vulnerable children and young people
   • Guidance
   • 1 April 2020
   • Department for Education and Public Health England
4. Coronavirus (COVID-19): free school meals guidance
   • Guidance
   • 7 April 2020
   • Department for Education
5. Coronavirus (COVID-19): maintaining educational provision
   • Guidance
   • 19 March 2020
   • Cabinet Office and Department for Education

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News and communications

9 April 2020 — Correspondence

Direction issued to the Chief Regulator of Ofqual

Department for Education

1. Awarding vocational and technical qualifications this summer
   • 9 April 2020
   • Ofqual
   • News story
2. ESFA: Business Update
   • 9 April 2020
   • Education and Skills Funding Agency
   • Correspondence
3. ESFA Update: 8 April 2020
   • 8 April 2020
   • Education and Skills Funding Agency
   • Correspondence
4. Sellafield Ltd Apprentice Recruitment
   • 8 April 2020
   • Sellafield Ltd
   • News story

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Research and statistics

1. Advanced Learner Loans Paid in England, AY 2019/20, Aug to Jan
   • 9 April 2020
   • Student Loans Company
   • Official statistics
2. Early years foundation stage profile results: 2018 to 2019
   • 7 April 2020
   • Department for Education
   • National statistics
3. Higher education provider data: Business and community interaction: 2018 to 2019
   • 3 April 2020
   • Department for Education, Higher Education Statistics Agency, and Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy
   • Official statistics
4. Department for Education – Statistics at DfE
   • 2 April 2020
   • Department for Education
   • Statistics
5. Higher education provider data: finance 2018 to 2019
   • 2 April 2020
   • Department for Education and Higher Education Statistics Agency
   • Official statistics

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Policy papers and consultations

1. Consultation on Guidance on malpractice and maladministration
   • 20 March 2020
   • Ofqual
   • Open consultation
   • Closing date 14 May 2020
2. Consultation on new statutory guidance for Condition F1
   • 20 February 2020
   • Ofqual
   • Open consultation
   • Closing date 14 May 2020
3. Consultation on changes to the Conditions of Recognition
   • 20 February 2020
   • Ofqual
   • Consultation outcome
   • Date closed 25 October 2019
4. Regulating Performance Table Qualifications
   • 18 February 2020
   • Ofqual
   • Consultation outcome
   • Date closed 02 December 2019
5. Review of the student loan sale programme
   • 11 March 2020
   • HM Treasury
   • Policy paper

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Transparency and freedom of information releases

1. Free schools and UTCs: successful applications
   • 9 April 2020
   • Department for Education
   • Transparency
2. Local authority interactive tool (LAIT)
   • 9 April 2020
   • Department for Education
   • Transparency
3. Awarding organisations: scope of recognition
   • 6 April 2020
   • Ofqual
   • Transparency
4. New school proposals
   • 31 March 2020
   • Department for Education
   • Transparency
5. SLC Gender Pay Gap Report 2019
   • 30 March 2020
   • Student Loans Company
   • Transparency

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Organisations

1. Department for Education
2. Office of the Schools Adjudicator
3. Education & Skills Funding Agency
4. Standards & Testing Agency
5. Teaching Regulation Agency

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1. Department of Health & Social Care
2. Department for Work & Pensions
3. Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport
4. Foreign & Commonwealth Office
5. Prime Minister's Office, 10 Downing Street
6. School Teachers' Review Body
7. Ministry of Defence
8. Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government
9. Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy
10. HM Treasury
11. Cabinet Office
12. Department for International Trade
13. Government Equalities Office
14. Public Health England
15. Department for International Development
16. Ministry of Justice
17. Office of Manpower Economics
18. Regional Schools Commissioners
19. Department for Transport
20. HM Revenue & Customs
21. Further Education Commissioner
22. Social Mobility Commission
23. Civil Service Fast Track Apprenticeship
24. Commonwealth Scholarship Commission in the UK
25. Government Economic Service
26. Crown Commercial Service
27. Government Legal Department
28. HM Courts & Tribunals Service
29. Home Office
30. Race Disparity Unit
31. UK Atomic Energy Authority
32. Central Arbitration Committee
33. Department for Environment Food & Rural Affairs
34. Attorney General's Office
35. Civil Service
36. Government Legal Profession
37. Digital, Data and Technology Profession
38. Government Actuary's Department
39. Groceries Code Adjudicator
40. Northern Ireland Office
41. Office of the Secretary of State for Wales Swyddfa Ysgrifennydd Gwladol Cymru
42. Border Force
43. Child Safeguarding Practice Review Panel
44. Operational Delivery Profession
45. Driver & Vehicle Licensing Agency
46. Driver & Vehicle Standards Agency
47. Government Digital Service
48. Government Finance Function
49. Her Majesty’s Prison & Probation Service
50. Immigration Enforcement
51. The Insolvency Service
52. Intellectual Property Office
53. Marine Management Organisation
54. Medicines & Healthcare products Regulatory Agency
55. Office for Artificial Intelligence
56. Office of the Advocate General for Scotland
57. Office of the Secretary of State for Scotland
58. Rural Payments Agency
59. Coal Authority
60. Office of the Leader of the House of Commons
61. UK Visas and Immigration

1. Ofqual
2. Ofsted
3. Student Loans Company
4. UK Space Agency
5. Sellafield Ltd
6. Nuclear Decommissioning Authority
7. UK Hydrographic Office
8. Defence Science and Technology Laboratory
9. Youth Justice Board for England and Wales
10. Government Chemist
11. High Speed Two (HS2) Limited
12. Low Level Waste Repository Ltd
13. Natural England
14. Defence Equipment and Support
15. Environment Agency
16. Innovate UK
17. Low Pay Commission
18. National Counter Terrorism Security Office
19. Social Security Advisory Committee
20. UK Council for Internet Safety
21. The Charity Commission
22. Dounreay
23. Government Internal Audit Agency
24. Highways England
25. Magnox Ltd
26. Radioactive Waste Management

Explore sub-topics

1. Education of disadvantaged children
2. Funding and finance for students
3. Further and higher education, skills and vocational training
4. Inspections and performance of education providers
5. Pupil wellbeing, behaviour and attendance
6. Running and managing a school
7. School and academy financial management and assurance
8. School and academy funding
9. School curriculum
10. Special educational needs and disability (SEND) and high needs
11. Starting and attending school
12. Teaching and leadership