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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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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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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Repaying your student loan
When you start repaying your student loan, your monthly repayments, what to do if you have 2 jobs or are self-employed, how to get a refund if you've overpaid.
Guidance and regulation
- Early years foundation stage (EYFS) statutory framework
- Handling strike action in schools
- Keeping children safe in education
- Free courses for jobs
- Ofsted inspections: what EY providers and practitioners need to know
News and communications
- Industrial action at SLC on Wednesday 1 February
- NDA group showcase skills and expertise in Westminster
- Teacher misconduct panel outcome: Mr Paul Allan
- Teacher misconduct panel outcome: Mr Darren Waters
- Amanda Spielman’s speech at the Big Conversation, 2023
Research and statistics
- Essential Skills enrolments and outcomes in NI: 2017/18 - 2021/22
- Essential Skills enrolments and outcomes in Northern Ireland: 2017/18 to 2021/22
- Higher education student data UK: 2021 to 2022
- School quality and the imprisonment of young people
- Understanding how the quality of schools is linked with the imprisonment of young people: methodology
Policy papers and consultations
- Consultation on Ofsted’s role in the Online Education Accreditation Scheme
- Regulating level 2 qualifications supporting progression to T Levels
- Accreditation for online education providers
- Awarding qualified teacher status to overseas teachers
- International qualified teacher status (iQTS)
Transparency and freedom of information releases
- Monthly statistics on initial teacher training recruitment: 2023 to 2024
- Free courses for jobs: provider list
- Department for Education framework documents
- Post-16 maths participation for pupils ending KS4 in 2018 to 2019
- East of England advisory board
Organisations
- Ofqual
- Ofsted
- Student Loans Company
- Sellafield Ltd
- Nuclear Decommissioning Authority
- UK Space Agency
- Dounreay
- Defence Science and Technology Laboratory
- Security Industry Authority
- High Speed Two (HS2) Limited
- UK Hydrographic Office
- Magnox Ltd
- Competition and Markets Authority
- Government Chemist
- UK Council for Internet Safety
- The Charity Commission
- Environment Agency
- Natural England
- Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation
- Council for Science and Technology
- Defence Equipment and Support
- Low Pay Commission
- Nuclear Waste Services
- Social Security Advisory Committee
- Youth Justice Board for England and Wales
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