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. Student finance

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

3. Find an apprenticeship

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

4. Apply online for student finance

   Apply online for student finance - online applications for student finance including Tuition Fee Loans, Maintenance Loans and Grants

5. 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

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Guidance and regulation

1. Key stage 2 tests: 2018 mathematics test materials
   • Guidance
   • 4 September 2018
   • Standards and Testing Agency
2. Find postgraduate teacher training courses in England
   • Detailed guide
   • 4 October 2018
   • Department for Education
3. Early years foundation stage statutory framework (EYFS)
   • Statutory guidance
   • 20 February 2018
   • Department for Education
4. Key stage 2 tests: 2018 English grammar, punctuation and spelling test materials
   • Guidance
   • 4 September 2018
   • Standards and Testing Agency
5. Working together to safeguard children
   • Statutory guidance
   • 21 February 2019
   • Department for Education

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News and communications

25 March 2019 — Decision

Stanhope Primary School

Office of the Schools Adjudicator

1. Celebrating UK skills for nuclear
   • 25 March 2019
   • Nuclear Decommissioning Authority
   • News story
2. Chris Skidmore: A STEP further for students
   • 25 March 2019
   • Department for Education
   • Speech
3. 'Rogue' private landlords must stop exploiting students
   • 25 March 2019
   • Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government and Department for Education
   • News story
4. Universities told to end grade inflation
   • 24 March 2019
   • Department for Education
   • News story

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Research and statistics

1. A review of approaches to assessing writing at the end of primary education
   • 22 March 2019
   • Ofqual
   • Research
2. Tailored review on the Office of the Children’s Commissioner
   • 21 March 2019
   • Department for Education and Office of the Children's Commissioner
   • Independent report
3. Higher education provider data: finance, 2017 to 2018
   • 21 March 2019
   • Department for Education and Higher Education Statistics Agency
   • Official statistics
4. Parental responsibility measures: 2017 to 2018
   • 21 March 2019
   • Department for Education
   • Official statistics
5. Pupil absence in schools in England: 2017 to 2018
   • 21 March 2019
   • Department for Education
   • National statistics

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Policy papers and consultations

1. FE workforce data collection
   • 20 March 2019
   • Department for Education
   • Open consultation
   • Closing date 12 June 2019
2. Review of post-16 qualifications at level 3 and below in England
   • 19 March 2019
   • Department for Education
   • Open consultation
   • Closing date 10 June 2019
3. Reducing teacher workload
   • 20 March 2019
   • Department for Education
   • Policy paper
4. DIT Education Sector Advisory Group minutes 20 November 2018
   • 18 March 2019
   • Department for International Trade
   • Policy paper
5. International Education Strategy: global potential, global growth
   • 16 March 2019
   • Department for Education and Department for International Trade
   • Policy paper

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Transparency and freedom of information releases

1. Local authority interactive tool (LAIT)
   • 22 March 2019
   • Department for Education
   • Transparency
2. Academy sponsor contact list
   • 22 March 2019
   • Department for Education
   • Transparency
3. Lancashire and west Yorkshire headteacher board
   • 21 March 2019
   • Schools Commissioners Group
   • Transparency
4. North of England headteacher board
   • 21 March 2019
   • Schools Commissioners Group
   • Transparency
5. Headteacher board meetings schedule and preparation templates
   • 21 March 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. Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport
4. School Teachers' Review Body
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. Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy
11. Cabinet Office
12. Government Equalities Office
13. Ministry of Justice
14. Schools Commissioners Group
15. Department for International Trade
16. Office of Manpower Economics
17. Department for International Development
18. HM Revenue & Customs
19. Civil Service Fast Track Apprenticeship
20. HM Courts & Tribunals Service
21. Home Office
22. Public Health England
23. Government Economic Service
24. Crown Commercial Service
25. Department for Transport
26. Commonwealth Scholarship Commission in the UK
27. Race Disparity Unit
28. Central Arbitration Committee
29. Department for Environment Food & Rural Affairs
30. Government Legal Department
31. UK Atomic Energy Authority
32. Attorney General's Office
33. Civil Service
34. Digital, Data and Technology Profession
35. Northern Ireland Office
36. Office for Disability Issues
37. Office of the Secretary of State for Wales Swyddfa Ysgrifennydd Gwladol Cymru
38. Social Mobility Commission
39. Border Force
40. Child Safeguarding Practice Review Panel
41. Government Finance Profession
42. Civil Service Resourcing
43. Driver & Vehicle Licensing Agency
44. Driver & Vehicle Standards Agency
45. Government Actuary's Department
46. Government Digital Service
47. Immigration Enforcement
48. Intellectual Property Office
49. Marine Management Organisation
50. Office of the Advocate General for Scotland
51. Rural Payments Agency
52. Coal Authority
53. Office of the Leader of the House of Commons
54. UK Export Finance
55. UK Visas and Immigration

1. Ofqual
2. Ofsted
3. Nuclear Decommissioning Authority
4. UK Space Agency
5. Sellafield Ltd
6. UK Hydrographic Office
7. Youth Justice Board for England and Wales
8. Defence Science and Technology Laboratory
9. Government Chemist
10. Low Level Waste Repository Ltd
11. Natural England
12. Defence Equipment and Support
13. Innovate UK
14. Low Pay Commission
15. Social Security Advisory Committee
16. The Charity Commission
17. Dounreay
18. Environment Agency
19. Government Internal Audit Agency
20. High Speed Two (HS2) Limited
21. Highways England
22. Magnox Ltd
23. National Counter Terrorism Security Office
24. Radioactive Waste Management
25. UK Council for Internet Safety

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