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
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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
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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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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Contact Student Finance England
Contact details for Student Finance England - including complaints and student finance appeals, Advanced Learner Loan
Guidance and regulation
- What parents and carers need to know about early years providers, schools and colleges during the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak
- Keeping children safe in education
- Recording attendance during the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): test kits for schools and FE providers
- Early years foundation stage statutory framework (EYFS)
News and communications
News story
Continuing to deliver payments to students
Research and statistics
- Further education and skills inspections and outcomes as at 31 August 2019
- Further education and skills inspections and outcomes as at 31 August 2018
- Further education and skills inspections and outcomes as at 28 February 2019
- Further education and skills inspections and outcomes as at 29 February 2020
- Initial teacher education: inspections and outcomes as at 30 June 2018
Policy papers and consultations
- Consultation on the arrangements for the assessment and awarding of vocational, technical and other general qualifications in 2020 to 2021
- Digital Resilience Framework
- Package of support for students who have to defer their studies
- Reducing bureaucratic burden: higher education
- Early career framework reforms: overview
Transparency and freedom of information releases
- ESFA investigation publishing policy
- Tailored review of the Teaching Regulation Agency
- West Midlands headteacher board
- South-West England headteacher board
- South-East England and south London headteacher board
Organisations
- Ofqual
- Ofsted
- Student Loans Company
- UK Space Agency
- Nuclear Decommissioning Authority
- Sellafield Ltd
- UK Hydrographic Office
- Defence Science and Technology Laboratory
- Youth Justice Board for England and Wales
- Government Chemist
- High Speed Two (HS2) Limited
- Low Level Waste Repository Ltd
- Natural England
- UK Council for Internet Safety
- Defence Equipment and Support
- Environment Agency
- Innovate UK
- Low Pay Commission
- Social Security Advisory Committee
- The Charity Commission
- Dounreay
- Government Internal Audit Agency
- Highways England
- Magnox Ltd
- National Counter Terrorism Security Office
- Radioactive Waste Management
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