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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. School term and holiday dates

   Find your child's school term, half term and holiday dates on your local council's website

3. Apply online for student finance

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

1. Student finance calculator

   Student finance calculator - get a quick estimate of what student loans, grants, bursaries and other funding you could get - for full-time, part-time and EU students

2. Find and compare schools in England

   Check school performance tables (‘league tables’), Ofsted reports and financial information.

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Guidance and regulation

1. Find an apprenticeship

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

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2. Student finance

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

   Guide

3. Contact Student Finance England

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

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1. Working together to safeguard children

   • Statutory guidance
   • 4 July 2018
   • Department for Education

2. Scaled scores at key stage 2

   • Detailed guide
   • 10 July 2018
   • Standards and Testing Agency

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News and communications

China celebrates 35 years of Chevening

16 July 2018

Foreign & Commonwealth Office

Speech

1. Financial notice to improve: St Anselm’s Catholic Multi Academy Trust

   • 13 July 2018
   • Education and Skills Funding Agency
   • Notice

2. Termination warning notice to Sandymoor Free School

   • 13 July 2018
   • Department for Education
   • Correspondence

3. New Chair of the Social Mobility Commission confirmed

   • 13 July 2018
   • Department for Education and Social Mobility Commission
   • News story

4. STA assessment update: 10 July 2018

   • 10 July 2018
   • Standards and Testing Agency
   • Correspondence

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Policy and engagement

1. Administration of mathematics early-career payments 16 July 2018

   Department for Education

   Open consultation

   Closing date 30 July 2018

2. Ofqual’s approach to regulating Technical Qualifications 10 July 2018

   Ofqual

   Open consultation

   Closing date 06 August 2018

3. Implementing functional skills reform 28 June 2018

   Ofqual

   Consultation outcome

   Date closed 11 May 2018

1. Risk protection arrangement (RPA) actuarial analysis

   • 5 July 2018
   • Department for Education
   • Independent report

2. Higher education student finance 2019 to 2020: equality analysis

   • 3 July 2018
   • Department for Education
   • Impact assessment

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Transparency

1. High needs: allocated place numbers

   • 16 July 2018
   • Education and Skills Funding Agency
   • Transparency

2. Free schools: open schools and successful applications

   • 16 July 2018
   • Department for Education
   • Transparency

3. New school proposals

   • 13 July 2018
   • Department for Education
   • Transparency

4. National curriculum assessments: key stage 2, 2017 (revised)

   • 13 July 2018
   • Department for Education
   • National statistics

5. Phonics screening check and key stage 1 assessments: England 2017

   • 13 July 2018
   • Department for Education and Standards and Testing Agency
   • National statistics

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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. Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

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1. Department for Work & Pensions
2. School Teachers' Review Body
3. Prime Minister's Office, 10 Downing Street
4. Department of Health & Social Care
5. Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government
6. Teaching Regulation Agency
7. Cabinet Office
8. HM Treasury
9. Ministry of Defence
10. Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy
11. Foreign & Commonwealth Office
12. Government Equalities Office
13. Ministry of Justice
14. HM Courts & Tribunals Service
15. Schools Commissioners Group
16. Office of Manpower Economics
17. HM Revenue & Customs
18. Civil Service Fast Track Apprenticeship
19. Department for Transport
20. Crown Commercial Service
21. Home Office
22. Public Health England
23. Central Arbitration Committee
24. Department for Environment Food & Rural Affairs
25. Department for International Trade
26. Civil Service
27. Department for International Development
28. Northern Ireland Office
29. Office for Disability Issues
30. Race Disparity Unit
31. Government Economic Service
32. Government Finance Profession
33. Civil Service Resourcing
34. Driver & Vehicle Licensing Agency
35. Driver & Vehicle Standards Agency
36. Government Digital Service
37. Government Legal Department
38. Intellectual Property Office
39. Office of the Advocate General for Scotland
40. Social Mobility Commission
41. Office of the Leader of the House of Commons
42. UK Atomic Energy Authority
43. UK Export Finance

1. Ofqual
2. Ofsted
3. Youth Justice Board for England and Wales
4. Defence Science and Technology Laboratory
5. Natural England
6. The Charity Commission
7. Highways England
8. Social Security Advisory Committee
9. UK Hydrographic Office