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. Find an apprenticeship

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

4. Contact Student Finance England

   Contact details for Student Finance England - including complaints and student finance appeals, Advanced Learner Loan

5. Apply online for student finance

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

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Guidance and regulation

1. Keeping children safe in education
   • Statutory guidance
   • 2 September 2019
   • Department for Education
2. Education inspection framework (EIF)
   • Guidance
   • 2 September 2019
   • Ofsted
3. Early years foundation stage statutory framework (EYFS)
   • Statutory guidance
   • 20 February 2018
   • Department for Education
4. Teachers' standards
   • Guidance
   • 1 July 2011
   • Department for Education
5. Working together to safeguard children
   • Statutory guidance
   • 21 February 2019
   • Department for Education

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News and communications

20 September 2019 — World news story

British Embassy Ashgabat supports Turkmen journalists

1. National Apprenticeship Awards 2019 regional winners announced
   • 19 September 2019
   • Education and Skills Funding Agency
   • News story
2. Accountability for Awarding
   • 19 September 2019
   • Ofqual
   • News story
3. School governance update
   • 19 September 2019
   • Department for Education
   • Correspondence
4. DfE surpasses apprenticeship target two years in a row
   • 18 September 2019
   • Department for Education
   • News story

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Research and statistics

1. Initial teacher training performance profiles: 2017 to 2018
   • 19 September 2019
   • Department for Education
   • Official statistics
2. Vocational qualifications dataset
   • 19 September 2019
   • Ofqual
   • Statistical data set
3. Vocational and other qualifications quarterly: April to June 2019
   • 19 September 2019
   • Ofqual
   • National statistics
4. Apprenticeships and traineeships data
   • 18 September 2019
   • Department for Education
   • Statistical data set
5. Education and training
   • 18 September 2019
   • Department for Education
   • Statistical data set

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Policy papers and consultations

1. Moderation and verification of centre assessment judgements
   • 19 September 2019
   • Ofqual
   • Consultation outcome
   • Date closed 20 May 2019
2. Awarding organisation controls for centre assessments - regulations
   • 19 September 2019
   • Ofqual
   • Open consultation
   • Closing date 14 November 2019
3. Implementing mandatory minimum per pupil funding levels
   • 10 September 2019
   • Department for Education
   • Open consultation
   • Closing date 22 October 2019
4. 16 to 19 discretionary bursary fund: allocation methodology
   • 10 September 2019
   • Department for Education and Education and Skills Funding Agency
   • Consultation outcome
   • Date closed 23 May 2019
5. Digital Resilience Framework
   • 12 September 2019
   • UK Council for Internet Safety
   • Policy paper

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Transparency and freedom of information releases

1. Local authority interactive tool (LAIT)
   • 20 September 2019
   • Department for Education
   • Transparency
2. Awarding organisations: scope of recognition
   • 20 September 2019
   • Ofqual
   • Transparency
3. Department for Education (DfE) apprenticeship data
   • 18 September 2019
   • Department for Education
   • Foi release
4. Teachers' pension scheme payments: 2019 to 2020
   • 18 September 2019
   • Department for Education
   • Transparency
5. Academies finance and assurance steering group terms of reference
   • 18 September 2019
   • Education and Skills Funding Agency
   • 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 for Work & Pensions
2. Department of Health & Social Care
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 Housing, Communities & Local Government
8. Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy
9. HM Treasury
10. Ministry of Defence
11. Cabinet Office
12. Department for International Trade
13. Government Equalities Office
14. Ministry of Justice
15. Department for International Development
16. Office of Manpower Economics
17. HM Revenue & Customs
18. Public Health England
19. Schools Commissioners Group
20. Department for Transport
21. Civil Service Fast Track Apprenticeship
22. Commonwealth Scholarship Commission in the UK
23. Further Education Commissioner
24. Home Office
25. Government Economic Service
26. Crown Commercial Service
27. HM Courts & Tribunals Service
28. Race Disparity Unit
29. Social Mobility Commission
30. Central Arbitration Committee
31. Department for Environment Food & Rural Affairs
32. Government Legal Department
33. UK Atomic Energy Authority
34. Attorney General's Office
35. Civil Service
36. Digital, Data and Technology Profession
37. Government Actuary's Department
38. Groceries Code Adjudicator
39. Northern Ireland Office
40. Office for Disability Issues
41. Office of the Secretary of State for Wales Swyddfa Ysgrifennydd Gwladol Cymru
42. Border Force
43. Child Safeguarding Practice Review Panel
44. Government Finance Profession
45. Driver & Vehicle Licensing Agency
46. Driver & Vehicle Standards Agency
47. Government Digital Service
48. Her Majesty’s Prison & Probation Service
49. Immigration Enforcement
50. The Insolvency Service
51. Intellectual Property Office
52. Marine Management Organisation
53. Office for Artificial Intelligence
54. Office of the Advocate General for Scotland
55. Rural Payments Agency
56. Coal Authority
57. Office of the Leader of the House of Commons
58. UK Visas and Immigration

1. Ofqual
2. Ofsted
3. Student Loans Company
4. Nuclear Decommissioning Authority
5. Sellafield Ltd
6. UK Space Agency
7. UK Hydrographic Office
8. Youth Justice Board for England and Wales
9. Defence Science and Technology Laboratory
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