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

• Student finance login

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

• Student finance for undergraduates

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

• Find an apprenticeship

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

• Get help with school uniform costs

  Get financial help from your local council or your child's school to pay for school uniform and games kit.

• Contact Student Finance England

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

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Guidance and regulation

• Apprenticeship funding rules
  • Detailed guide
  • 26 July 2022
  • Education and Skills Funding Agency
• Early years foundation stage (EYFS) statutory framework
  • Statutory guidance
  • 3 September 2021
  • Department for Education
• Free courses for jobs
  • Detailed guide
  • 4 April 2022
  • Department for Education
• Contact SLC - repayment enquiries
  • Detailed guide
  • 6 June 2022
  • Student Loans Company
• Keeping children safe in education
  • Statutory guidance
  • 31 May 2022
  • Department for Education

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News and communications

• Teacher misconduct panel outcome: Mr Mark Portass
  • 15 August 2022
  • Teaching Regulation Agency
  • Decision
• Cabinet ministers see levelling up in action at Airbus factory
  • 15 August 2022
  • HM Treasury, Office of the Secretary of State for Wales, and Prime Minister's Office, 10 Downing Street
  • Press release
• Clearing a path to higher education
  • 15 August 2022
  • Student Loans Company
  • Press release
• Joint Ofqual and UCAS letter to students
  • 14 August 2022
  • Ofqual
  • Correspondence
• Teacher misconduct panel outcome: Dr Rosemin Najmudin
  • 12 August 2022
  • Teaching Regulation Agency
  • Decision

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Research and statistics

• State-funded school inspections and outcomes: management information
  • 11 August 2022
  • Ofsted
  • Statistical data set
• Department for Education – Statistics at DfE
  • 10 August 2022
  • Department for Education
  • Statistics
• Further education and skills inspections and outcomes: management information from September 2021 to August 2022
  • 10 August 2022
  • Ofsted
  • Statistical data set
• Exploring Ofsted inspection data with Data View
  • 10 August 2022
  • Ofsted
  • Research
• Local skills dashboard
  • 9 August 2022
  • Department for Education
  • Research

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Policy papers and consultations

• A new approach to area SEND inspections
  • 11 August 2022
  • Ofsted and Care Quality Commission
  • Open consultation
  • Closing date 11 September 2022
• Down Syndrome Act 2022 guidance: call for evidence
  • 29 July 2022
  • Department of Health and Social Care
  • Open consultation
  • Closing date 08 November 2022
• Revised behaviour in schools guidance and suspension and permanent exclusions guidance
  • 27 July 2022
  • Department for Education
  • Consultation outcome
  • Date closed 31 March 2022
• Implementing a new FE funding and accountability system
  • 21 July 2022
  • Department for Education
  • Open consultation
  • Closing date 22 September 2022
• Reforms to further education (FE) funding and accountability
  • 21 July 2022
  • Department for Education
  • Consultation outcome
  • Date closed 07 October 2021

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Transparency and freedom of information releases

• British schools overseas: inspection reports for accredited schools
  • 12 August 2022
  • Department for Education
  • Transparency
• Free schools and UTCs: successful applications
  • 12 August 2022
  • Department for Education
  • Transparency
• East Midlands and the Humber advisory board
  • 11 August 2022
  • Regional Schools Commissioners
  • Transparency
• Education, children’s social care and offending
  • 11 August 2022
  • Department for Education and Ministry of Justice
  • Transparency
• North of England advisory board
  • 9 August 2022
  • Regional Schools Commissioners
  • Transparency

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Organisations

• Department for Education
• Office of the Schools Adjudicator
• Education & Skills Funding Agency
• Teaching Regulation Agency
• Standards & Testing Agency

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• Department of Health & Social Care
• Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport
• Department for Work & Pensions
• Prime Minister's Office, 10 Downing Street
• School Teachers' Review Body
• Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy
• HM Treasury
• Ministry of Defence
• Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office
• Cabinet Office
• Department for International Trade
• Government Equalities Office
• Ministry of Justice
• Office of Manpower Economics
• Department for Transport
• Social Mobility Commission
• HM Revenue & Customs
• Regional Schools Commissioners
• Further Education Commissioner
• Commonwealth Scholarship Commission in the UK
• UK Atomic Energy Authority
• Government Skills and Curriculum Unit
• Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities
• Government Actuary's Department
• Home Office
• Government Economic Service
• Crown Commercial Service
• Government Legal Department
• Race Disparity Unit
• HM Courts & Tribunals Service
• Leadership College for Government
• Office of the Secretary of State for Wales
• Central Arbitration Committee
• Civil Service
• Department for Environment Food & Rural Affairs
• Government Digital Service
• Office for Artificial Intelligence
• Office of the Secretary of State for Scotland
• Attorney General's Office
• Government Legal Profession
• Groceries Code Adjudicator
• Medicines & Healthcare products Regulatory Agency
• Northern Ireland Office
• UK Health Security Agency
• Border Force
• Child Safeguarding Practice Review Panel
• Government social research profession
• Operational Delivery Profession
• Companies House
• Digital, Data and Technology Profession
• Gov Facility Services Limited
• Government Finance Function
• Government Internal Audit Agency
• Government Office for Science
• Her Majesty’s Prison & Probation Service
• Immigration Enforcement
• The Insolvency Service
• Intellectual Property Office
• Marine Management Organisation
• Office for Health Improvement & Disparities
• Office for Product Safety & Standards
• Office of the Advocate General for Scotland
• Rural Payments Agency
• Coal Authority
• Office of the Leader of the House of Commons
• UK Visas and Immigration

• Ofqual
• Ofsted
• Student Loans Company
• Sellafield Ltd
• Nuclear Decommissioning Authority
• UK Space Agency
• Defence Science and Technology Laboratory
• Dounreay
• High Speed Two (HS2) Limited
• Security Industry Authority
• UK Hydrographic Office
• Government Chemist
• UK Council for Internet Safety
• Competition and Markets Authority
• Environment Agency
• 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

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• 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