Education, training and skills
Schools and academies, further and higher education, apprenticeships and other skills training, student funding, early years.
Services
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Student finance login
Your student finance online account - check payment dates, track an application, change details, reset password, find customer reference numbers
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Student finance for undergraduates
Student finance - student loans or student grants for tuition fees and living costs, extra help, student loan repayments
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Find an apprenticeship
Register your profile, search vacancies and apply for an apprenticeship - you must be 16 or over
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School term and holiday dates
Find your child's school term, half term and holiday dates on your local council's website
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Apply online for student finance
Apply online for student finance - online applications for student finance including Tuition Fee Loans, Maintenance Loans and Grants.
Guidance and regulation
- Early years foundation stage (EYFS) statutory framework
- Free courses for jobs
- SEND code of practice: 0 to 25 years
- Contact SLC - repayment enquiries
- Primary assessments: future dates
News and communications
Research and statistics
- Appeals for GCSE, AS, A level and Project: 2020 to 2021 academic year
- Postgraduate initial teacher training targets: 2022 to 2023
- Financial benefits of good university grades
- Department for Education – Statistics at DfE
- State-funded school inspections and outcomes: management information
Policy papers and consultations
- Introduction of T Levels
- Sustainability and climate change strategy
- Opportunity North East delivery plan
- Skills and Post-16 Education Bill: impact assessment and JCHR memorandum
- National Skills Fund
Transparency and freedom of information releases
- South-West England advisory board
- South-East England and south London advisory board
- Common basic data set (CBDS): requests for change (RFC) 2022
- 16 to 19 allocation data: 2021 to 2022 academic year
- East of England and north-east London advisory board
Organisations
- Ofqual
- Ofsted
- Student Loans Company
- Sellafield Ltd
- Nuclear Decommissioning Authority
- UK Space Agency
- Defence Science and Technology Laboratory
- Dounreay
- Security Industry Authority
- UK Hydrographic Office
- Government Chemist
- UK Council for Internet Safety
- Environment Agency
- High Speed Two (HS2) Limited
- Magnox Ltd
- Natural England
- Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation
- Council for Science and Technology
- Defence Equipment and Support
- Low Pay Commission
- Social Security Advisory Committee
- Youth Justice Board for England and Wales
- The Charity Commission
- Competition and Markets Authority
Explore sub-topics
- Education of disadvantaged children
- Funding and finance for students
- Further and higher education, skills and vocational training
- Inspections and performance of education providers
- Pupil wellbeing, behaviour and attendance
- Running and managing a school
- School and academy financial management and assurance
- School and academy funding
- School curriculum
- Special educational needs and disability (SEND) and high needs
- Starting and attending school
- Teaching and leadership