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. 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. Find postgraduate teacher training courses in England
   • Detailed guide
   • 4 October 2018
   • Department for Education
2. Teachers' standards
   • Guidance
   • 1 July 2011
   • Department for Education
3. Multiplication tables check assessment framework
   • Guidance
   • 13 November 2018
   • Standards and Testing Agency
4. Keeping children safe in education
   • Statutory guidance
   • 19 September 2018
   • Department for Education
5. Early years foundation stage statutory framework (EYFS)
   • Statutory guidance
   • 20 February 2018
   • Department for Education

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News and communications

18 November 2018 — News story

Government boosts student choice with two-year degrees

Department for Education

1. Construction industry to benefit from major skills boost
   • 16 November 2018
   • Department for Education
   • News story
2. Minister attends UK’s largest interactive skills event to inspire next generation
   • 15 November 2018
   • Department for Education
   • News story
3. Financial health notice to improve: Coulsdon Sixth Form College
   • 15 November 2018
   • Education and Skills Funding Agency
   • Correspondence
4. Financial health notice to improve: North Hertfordshire College
   • 15 November 2018
   • Education and Skills Funding Agency
   • Correspondence

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Research and statistics

1. Department for Education – Statistics at DfE
   • 15 November 2018
   • Department for Education
   • Statistics
2. Financial support for students in higher education: England 2018
   • 15 November 2018
   • Student Loans Company
   • National statistics
3. Financial support for students in HE: Northern Ireland 2018
   • 15 November 2018
   • Student Loans Company
   • National statistics
4. Financial support for students in higher education: Wales 2018
   • 15 November 2018
   • Student Loans Company
   • National statistics
5. Grading Vocational and Technical Qualifications
   • 13 November 2018
   • Ofqual
   • Research

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Policy papers and consultations

1. STEM Engagement across the NDA Group
   • 14 November 2018
   • Nuclear Decommissioning Authority
   • Closed consultation
   • Date closed 17 August 2018
2. Consultation on GCSE and GCE music and dance
   • 9 November 2018
   • Ofqual
   • Open consultation
   • Closing date 09 December 2018
3. Future assessment arrangements for GCSE computer science
   • 5 November 2018
   • Ofqual
   • Open consultation
   • Closing date 03 December 2018
4. Regulating Basic Digital Skills Qualifications
   • 5 November 2018
   • Ofqual
   • Open consultation
   • Closing date 13 January 2019
5. Reducing teacher workload
   • 5 November 2018
   • Department for Education
   • Policy paper

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Transparency and freedom of information releases

1. High needs: allocated place numbers
   • 16 November 2018
   • Education and Skills Funding Agency
   • Transparency
2. Teachers' pension scheme payments: 2018 to 2019
   • 15 November 2018
   • Department for Education
   • Transparency
3. Financial management and governance reviews: Wakefield City Academies Trust
   • 15 November 2018
   • Education and Skills Funding Agency
   • Transparency
4. Lancashire and West Yorkshire Headteacher Board
   • 15 November 2018
   • Schools Commissioners Group
   • Transparency
5. Bullying in England: April 2013 to March 2018
   • 12 November 2018
   • 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. Ministry of Defence
8. Foreign & Commonwealth Office
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. HM Revenue & Customs
17. Civil Service Fast Track Apprenticeship
18. HM Courts & Tribunals Service
19. Home Office
20. Government Economic Service
21. Crown Commercial Service
22. Department for Transport
23. Public Health England
24. Central Arbitration Committee
25. Department for International Development
26. Department for International Trade
27. Race Disparity Unit
28. Civil Service
29. Department for Environment Food & Rural Affairs
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. Driver & Vehicle Licensing Agency
41. Driver & Vehicle Standards Agency
42. Government Actuary's Department
43. Government Digital Service
44. Immigration Enforcement
45. Intellectual Property Office
46. Office of the Advocate General for Scotland
47. Rural Payments Agency
48. Office of the Leader of the House of Commons
49. UK Export Finance
50. UK Visas and Immigration

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

Explore these 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