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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Contact Student Finance England
Contact details for Student Finance England - including complaints and student finance appeals, Advanced Learner Loan.
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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
Guidance and regulation
- Keeping children safe in education
- Early years foundation stage (EYFS) statutory framework
- Getting your first student finance payment
- Universal Credit and students
- Free courses for jobs
News and communications
- Termination Warning Notice to St Aidan’s Church of England High School
- Teacher misconduct panel outcome: Ms Kate Louise Griffiths
- Glenthorne High School: 22 September 2022
- Urmston Grammar Academy: 22 September 2022
- British High Commissioner inaugurates two learning centres for disadvantaged children
Research and statistics
- DfE energy survey: spring 2022
- Further education and skills inspections and outcomes: management information from September 2021 to August 2022
- Department for Education – Statistics at DfE
- State-funded school inspections and outcomes: management information
- Educational attainment and household composition, research and methodology
Policy papers and consultations
- Implementing a new FE funding and accountability system
- Down Syndrome Act 2022 guidance: call for evidence (easy read)
- Free early education for 2-year-olds with no recourse to public funds (NRPF)
- Apprenticeship funding
- Identifying and meeting local skills needs to support growth
Transparency and freedom of information releases
- Ofqual spend data over £25k
- Ofqual government procurement card data
- Free schools and UTCs: successful applications
- SLC prompt payment data 1 April 2022 to 31 March 2023
- SLC prompt payment data 1 April 2021 to 31 March 2022
Organisations
- 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
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