Education, training and skills
Schools and academies, further and higher education, apprenticeships and other skills training, student funding, early years.
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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Find an apprenticeship
Register your profile, search vacancies and apply for an apprenticeship - you must be 16 or over
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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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Apply for free school meals
Check if your child can get free school meals - and find out how to apply on your local authority’s website
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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
Guidance and regulation
- Get laptops and tablets for children who cannot attend school due to coronavirus (COVID-19)
- Critical workers and vulnerable children who can access schools or educational settings
- Get help with technology during coronavirus (COVID-19)
- What parents and carers need to know about early years providers, schools and colleges
- Higher education providers: coronavirus (COVID-19)
News and communications
Research and statistics
- Higher education staff statistics UK: 2019 to 2020
- Department for Education – Statistics at DfE
- Attendance in education and early years settings during the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak: 23 March 2020 to 4 January 2021
- State-funded school inspections and outcomes: management information
- Further education and skills inspections and outcomes: management information from September 2020 to August 2021
Policy papers and consultations
- Consultation on how GCSE, AS and A level grades should be awarded in summer 2021
- Consultation on alternative arrangements for the award of VTQs and other general qualifications in 2021
- Post-16 study at level 2 and below: call for evidence
- Review of post-16 qualifications at level 3: second stage
- T Level action plan
Transparency and freedom of information releases
- Academy sponsor list
- South-East England and south London headteacher board
- East Midlands and the Humber headteacher board
- Free schools and UTCs: successful applications
- List of declared subcontractors
Organisations
- Ofqual
- Ofsted
- Student Loans Company
- UK Space Agency
- Nuclear Decommissioning Authority
- Sellafield Ltd
- Defence Science and Technology Laboratory
- UK Hydrographic Office
- Youth Justice Board for England and Wales
- Government Chemist
- UK Council for Internet Safety
- High Speed Two (HS2) Limited
- Low Level Waste Repository Ltd
- Natural England
- Defence Equipment and Support
- Dounreay
- Environment Agency
- Innovate UK
- Low Pay Commission
- Social Security Advisory Committee
- The Charity Commission
- Highways England
- Magnox Ltd
- National Counter Terrorism Security Office
- Radioactive Waste Management
- Security Industry Authority
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