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. Find an apprenticeship

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

3. Student finance

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

4. Contact Student Finance England

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

5. 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

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Guidance and regulation

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

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News and communications

17 October 2019 — World news story

British Week in Paraguay celebrates education, music and more

1. Secretary of State Nicky Morgan speaking at the Reform Women's Network
   • 17 October 2019
   • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport
   • Speech
2. Teacher misconduct panel outcome: Ms Amber Shahid
   • 17 October 2019
   • Teaching Regulation Agency
   • Decision
3. Teacher misconduct panel outcome: Mrs Jane Schalch
   • 17 October 2019
   • Teaching Regulation Agency
   • Decision
4. Teacher misconduct panel outcome: Mr Neil John Jinks
   • 17 October 2019
   • Teaching Regulation Agency
   • Decision

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Research and statistics

1. Reviews of marking and moderation: November GCSEs and projects
   • 17 October 2019
   • Ofqual
   • Research
2. Early years foundation stage profile results: 2018 to 2019
   • 17 October 2019
   • Department for Education
   • National statistics
3. A level and other 16 to 18 results: 2018 to 2019 (provisional)
   • 17 October 2019
   • Department for Education
   • National statistics
4. TSM and initial teacher training allocations: 2020 to 2021
   • 17 October 2019
   • Department for Education
   • Official statistics
5. Destinations of KS4 and 16 to 18 (KS5) students: 2018
   • 17 October 2019
   • Department for Education
   • Official statistics

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Policy papers and consultations

1. Consultation on changing the dedicated schools grant
   • 11 October 2019
   • Department for Education
   • Open consultation
   • Closing date 15 November 2019
2. Amending the 'Taking Regulatory Action' policy
   • 8 October 2019
   • Ofqual
   • Open consultation
   • Closing date 02 December 2019
3. National retraining scheme
   • 16 October 2019
   • Department for Education
   • Policy paper
4. National funding formula for schools and high needs
   • 11 October 2019
   • Department for Education
   • Policy paper
5. T Level action plan
   • 7 October 2019
   • Department for Education
   • Policy paper

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Transparency and freedom of information releases

1. Young people NEET or activity unknown: comparative data scorecard
   • 17 October 2019
   • Department for Education
   • Transparency
2. Free schools and UTCs: successful applications
   • 16 October 2019
   • Department for Education
   • Transparency
3. Curriculum fund programme pilots: list of lead schools
   • 16 October 2019
   • Department for Education
   • Transparency
4. Academy trusts: late financial returns 2018 to 2019
   • 14 October 2019
   • Education and Skills Funding Agency
   • Transparency
5. West Midlands headteacher board
   • 11 October 2019
   • Regional Schools Commissioners
   • 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. Regional Schools Commissioners
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. Operational Delivery Profession
46. Driver & Vehicle Licensing Agency
47. Driver & Vehicle Standards Agency
48. Government Digital Service
49. Her Majesty’s Prison & Probation Service
50. Immigration Enforcement
51. The Insolvency Service
52. Intellectual Property Office
53. Marine Management Organisation
54. Medicines & Healthcare products Regulatory Agency
55. Office for Artificial Intelligence
56. Office of the Advocate General for Scotland
57. Rural Payments Agency
58. Coal Authority
59. Office of the Leader of the House of Commons
60. UK Visas and Immigration

1. Ofqual
2. Ofsted
3. Student Loans Company
4. UK Space Agency
5. Nuclear Decommissioning Authority
6. Sellafield Ltd
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