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. Find and compare schools in England

   Check school performance tables (‘league tables’), Ofsted reports and financial information.

5. Contact Student Finance England

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

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Guidance and regulation

1. Teachers' standards
   • Guidance
   • 1 July 2011
   • Department for Education
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. Keeping children safe in education
   • Statutory guidance
   • 19 September 2018
   • Department for Education
5. Early years foundation stage profile handbook
   • Guidance
   • 10 December 2018
   • Standards and Testing Agency

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News and communications

17 December 2018 — World news story

British High Commission organises GREAT debate in Lahore

1. Teacher misconduct panel outcome: Mr Matthew Pryer
   • 17 December 2018
   • Teaching Regulation Agency
   • Decision
2. Teacher misconduct panel outcome: Mr Matthew Dawson
   • 17 December 2018
   • Teaching Regulation Agency
   • Decision
3. New funding to support children with special educational needs
   • 16 December 2018
   • Department for Education
   • News story
4. Herschel Grammar School
   • 14 December 2018
   • Office of the Schools Adjudicator
   • Decision

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Research and statistics

1. Key stage 2 and multi-academy trust performance, 2018 (revised)
   • 14 December 2018
   • Department for Education
   • National statistics
2. Malpractice in GCSE, AS and A level: summer 2018 exam series
   • 14 December 2018
   • Ofqual
   • Official statistics
3. Prevent and counter-extremism in general further education colleges
   • 13 December 2018
   • Department for Education
   • Research
4. Ofqual 2018 summer exam series report
   • 13 December 2018
   • Ofqual
   • Research
5. Reviews of marking and moderation for GCSE, AS and A level: summer 2018 exam series
   • 13 December 2018
   • Ofqual
   • Official statistics

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Policy papers and consultations

1. Changes to our rules for reviews of marking, moderation and appeals
   • 14 December 2018
   • Ofqual
   • Open consultation
   • Closing date 25 January 2019
2. Implementation of Technical Qualifications
   • 12 December 2018
   • Ofqual
   • Consultation outcome
   • Date closed 28 October 2018
3. Review of children in need
   • 10 December 2018
   • Department for Education
   • Policy paper
4. T Level action plan
   • 6 December 2018
   • Department for Education
   • Policy paper
5. English Baccalaureate (EBacc)
   • 3 December 2018
   • Department for Education
   • Policy paper

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Transparency and freedom of information releases

1. Academy sponsor contact list
   • 14 December 2018
   • Department for Education
   • Transparency
2. CSC annual report 2018
   • 13 December 2018
   • Department for International Development and Commonwealth Scholarship Commission in the UK
   • Corporate report
3. Pupil nationality, country of birth and proficiency in English: 2018
   • 13 December 2018
   • Department for Education
   • Transparency
4. Free schools and UTCs: successful applications
   • 7 December 2018
   • Department for Education
   • Transparency
5. Institute for Apprenticeships annual report and accounts 2017 to 2018
   • 7 December 2018
   • Institute for Apprenticeships
   • Corporate report

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