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. 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

5. Apply for a primary school place

   Apply for a state primary school place through your local council

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Guidance and regulation

1. Find postgraduate teacher training courses in England
   • Detailed guide
   • 4 October 2018
   • Department for Education
2. Early years foundation stage statutory framework (EYFS)
   • Statutory guidance
   • 20 February 2018
   • Department for Education
3. Teachers' standards
   • Guidance
   • 1 July 2011
   • Department for Education
4. SEND code of practice: 0 to 25 years
   • Statutory guidance
   • 1 May 2015
   • Department for Education and Department of Health and Social Care
5. Keeping children safe in education
   • Statutory guidance
   • 19 September 2018
   • Department for Education

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News and communications

16 January 2019 — Decision

British Wheel of Yoga Qualifications (BWYQ) undertaking: December 2018

Ofqual

1. ESFA Update: 16 January 2019
   • 16 January 2019
   • Education and Skills Funding Agency
   • Correspondence
2. Gosforth youngsters prepare for Lego League challenge with LLWR presentation
   • 16 January 2019
   • Low Level Waste Repository Ltd
   • News story
3. Amanda Spielman launches EIF consultation proposals
   • 16 January 2019
   • Ofsted
   • Speech
4. School inspection update: academic year 2018 to 2019
   • 16 January 2019
   • Ofsted
   • Correspondence

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Research and statistics

1. Education inspection framework: overview of research
   • 16 January 2019
   • Ofsted
   • Research
2. Access arrangements for GCSE, AS and A Level: 2017 to 2018 academic year
   • 11 January 2019
   • Ofqual
   • Official statistics
3. State-funded school inspections and outcomes: management information
   • 11 January 2019
   • Ofsted
   • Statistical data set
4. Further education and skills data
   • 10 January 2019
   • Department for Education and Education and Skills Funding Agency
   • Statistical data set
5. Further education and skills inspections and outcomes: management information from September 2018 to August 2019
   • 10 January 2019
   • Ofsted
   • Statistical data set

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Policy papers and consultations

1. Education inspection framework 2019: inspecting the substance of education
   • 16 January 2019
   • Ofsted
   • Open consultation
   • Closing date 05 April 2019
2. Funding increases to teachers’ pensions employer contributions
   • 15 January 2019
   • Department for Education
   • Open consultation
   • Closing date 13 February 2019
3. Value for money in higher education
   • 4 January 2019
   • Department for Education
   • Policy paper
4. T Level action plan
   • 19 December 2018
   • Department for Education
   • Policy paper
5. Voluntary-aided schools capital scheme: equalities impact assessment
   • 18 December 2018
   • Department for Education
   • Impact assessment

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Transparency and freedom of information releases

1. South-East England and south London headteacher board
   • 15 January 2019
   • Schools Commissioners Group
   • Transparency
2. North of England headteacher board
   • 15 January 2019
   • Schools Commissioners Group
   • Transparency
3. Lancashire and west Yorkshire headteacher board
   • 15 January 2019
   • Schools Commissioners Group
   • Transparency
4. East Midlands and the Humber headteacher board
   • 15 January 2019
   • Schools Commissioners Group
   • Transparency
5. Free schools and UTCs: successful applications
   • 15 January 2019
   • Department for Education
   • 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. School Teachers' Review Body
4. Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport
5. Prime Minister's Office, 10 Downing Street
6. Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government
7. Foreign & Commonwealth Office
8. Ministry of Defence
9. HM Treasury
10. Cabinet Office
11. Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy
12. Government Equalities Office
13. Ministry of Justice
14. Schools Commissioners Group
15. Office of Manpower Economics
16. Department for International Development
17. HM Revenue & Customs
18. Civil Service Fast Track Apprenticeship
19. HM Courts & Tribunals Service
20. Home Office
21. Government Economic Service
22. Crown Commercial Service
23. Department for Transport
24. Public Health England
25. Central Arbitration Committee
26. Department for Environment Food & Rural Affairs
27. Department for International Trade
28. Race Disparity Unit
29. Civil Service
30. Government Legal Department
31. Northern Ireland Office
32. Office for Disability Issues
33. Office of the Secretary of State for Wales Swyddfa Ysgrifennydd Gwladol Cymru
34. Social Mobility Commission
35. UK Atomic Energy Authority
36. Attorney General's Office
37. Border Force
38. Government Finance Profession
39. Civil Service Resourcing
40. Commonwealth Scholarship Commission in the UK
41. Driver & Vehicle Licensing Agency
42. Driver & Vehicle Standards Agency
43. Government Actuary's Department
44. Government Digital Service
45. Immigration Enforcement
46. Intellectual Property Office
47. Office of the Advocate General for Scotland
48. Rural Payments Agency
49. Office of the Leader of the House of Commons
50. UK Export Finance
51. UK Visas and Immigration

1. Ofqual
2. Ofsted
3. UK Space Agency
4. Nuclear Decommissioning Authority
5. UK Hydrographic Office
6. Youth Justice Board for England and Wales
7. Sellafield Ltd
8. Defence Science and Technology Laboratory
9. Defence Equipment and Support
10. Innovate UK
11. Low Level Waste Repository Ltd
12. Natural England
13. Social Security Advisory Committee
14. The Charity Commission
15. Highways England
16. National Counter Terrorism Security Office