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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

• Student finance login

  Your student finance online account - check payment dates, track an application, change details, reset password, find customer reference numbers

• Student finance

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

• Find an apprenticeship

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

• Contact Student Finance England

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

• Apply online for student finance

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

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Guidance and regulation

• Keeping children safe in education

  Statutory guidance

  3 September 2018

  Department for Education

• Working together to safeguard children

  Statutory guidance

  1 August 2018

  Department for Education

• Teachers' standards

  Guidance

  1 July 2011

  Department for Education

• Sex and relationship education
  • Statutory guidance
  • 6 July 2000
  • Department for Education
• Early years foundation stage statutory framework (EYFS)
  • Statutory guidance
  • 20 February 2018
  • Department for Education

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News and communications

STA assessment update: 18 September 2018

18 September 2018

Standards and Testing Agency

Correspondence

1. HMCI commentary: curriculum and the new education inspection framework
   • 18 September 2018
   • Ofsted
   • Authored article
2. British Embassy Open Day 2018: a chance to experience the best of the UK
   • 18 September 2018
   • World news story
3. Closed: Financial health notice to improve: Epping Forest College
   • 17 September 2018
   • Education and Skills Funding Agency
   • Correspondence
4. Closed: Quality notice to improve: Redcar and Cleveland College
   • 17 September 2018
   • Education and Skills Funding Agency
   • Correspondence

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Research and statistics

• Academies LGPS pension arrangements
  • 14 September 2018
  • Government Actuary's Department
  • Research
• School inspections and outcomes: management information
  • 13 September 2018
  • Ofsted
  • Statistical data set
• FE Choices learner satisfaction survey 2016 to 2017
  • 13 September 2018
  • Department for Education and Education and Skills Funding Agency
  • Official statistics
• Apprenticeship and levy statistics: September 2018
  • 13 September 2018
  • Department for Education
  • Official statistics
• Employer skills survey 2017: England and local toolkit
  • 12 September 2018
  • Department for Education
  • Research

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Policy and engagement

• Implementation of Technical Qualifications 3 September 2018

  Ofqual

  Open consultation

  Closing date 28 October 2018

• Ofqual’s approach to regulating Technical Qualifications 3 September 2018

  Ofqual

  Consultation outcome

  Date closed 06 August 2018

• Administration of mathematics early-career payments 31 August 2018

  Department for Education

  Consultation outcome

  Date closed 30 July 2018

• Ventilation, thermal comfort and indoor air quality in schools
  • 23 August 2018
  • Department for Education, Closed organisation: Education Funding Agency, and Education and Skills Funding Agency
  • Consultation outcome
  • Date closed 25 August 2016
• Institutes of Technology competition
  • 23 August 2018
  • Department for Education
  • Policy paper

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Transparency

• New school proposals
  • 18 September 2018
  • Department for Education
  • Transparency
• Academy sponsor contact list
  • 14 September 2018
  • Department for Education
  • Transparency
• South-West England Headteacher Board
  • 14 September 2018
  • Schools Commissioners Group
  • Transparency
• East of England and North-East London Headteacher Board
  • 14 September 2018
  • Schools Commissioners Group
  • Transparency
• South-East England and South London Headteacher Board
  • 14 September 2018
  • Schools Commissioners Group
  • 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 Digital, Culture, Media & Sport
2. Department for Work & Pensions
3. School Teachers' Review Body
4. Prime Minister's Office, 10 Downing Street
5. Department of Health & Social Care
6. Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government
7. Ministry of Defence
8. HM Treasury
9. Cabinet Office
10. Foreign & Commonwealth 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. Crown Commercial Service
20. Department for Transport
21. Home Office
22. Public Health England
23. Central Arbitration Committee
24. Department for Environment Food & Rural Affairs
25. Department for International Trade
26. Civil Service
27. Government Economic Service
28. Department for International Development
29. Government Legal Department
30. Northern Ireland Office
31. Office for Disability Issues
32. Office of the Secretary of State for Wales Swyddfa Ysgrifennydd Gwladol Cymru
33. Race Disparity Unit
34. Border Force
35. Government Finance Profession
36. Civil Service Resourcing
37. Driver & Vehicle Licensing Agency
38. Driver & Vehicle Standards Agency
39. Government Actuary's Department
40. Government Digital Service
41. Immigration Enforcement
42. Intellectual Property Office
43. Office of the Advocate General for Scotland
44. Social Mobility Commission
45. Office of the Leader of the House of Commons
46. UK Atomic Energy Authority
47. UK Export Finance
48. UK Visas and Immigration

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