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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

1. Student finance login

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

2. School term and holiday dates

   Find your child's school term, half term and holiday dates on your local council's website

3. Apply online for student finance

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

1. 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

2. Find and compare schools in England

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

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Guidance and regulation

1. Find an apprenticeship

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

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2. Student finance

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

   Guide

3. Contact Student Finance England

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

   Answer

1. Scaled scores at key stage 2

   • Detailed guide
   • 10 July 2018
   • Standards and Testing Agency

2. 2018 key stage 2 scaled score conversion tables

   • Guidance
   • 10 July 2018
   • Standards and Testing Agency

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News and communications

Measures announced to help schools reduce teacher workload

21 July 2018

Department for Education

News story

1. Letter to awarding organisations: qualification category on Register

   • 21 July 2018
   • Ofqual
   • Correspondence

2. Secretary of State speech at the National Association of Headteachers conference

   • 20 July 2018
   • Department for Education
   • Speech

3. Call for evidence launched on qualification fee information

   • 20 July 2018
   • Ofqual
   • News story

4. UK aid supports disability inclusion at disability event in Freetown

   • 20 July 2018
   • World news story

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Policy and engagement

1. Using technology for effective change

   • 21 July 2018
   • Department for Education
   • Case study

2. Measuring pupil progress and managing the data

   • 21 July 2018
   • Department for Education
   • Case study

3. Reducing teacher workload

   • 21 July 2018
   • Department for Education
   • Policy paper

4. Using technology to help with school planning

   • 21 July 2018
   • Department for Education
   • Case study

5. Supporting NQTs and teachers with work-life balance

   • 21 July 2018
   • Department for Education
   • Case study

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Transparency

1. School snapshot survey: winter 2017

   • 21 July 2018
   • Department for Education
   • Research

2. Curriculum support resources in schools

   • 21 July 2018
   • Department for Education
   • Research

3. Call for evidence: qualification fees, purchasing and value for money

   • 20 July 2018
   • Ofqual
   • Research

4. Update on monitoring of exam boards’ marketing and support events

   • 20 July 2018
   • Ofqual
   • Research

5. Department for Education – Statistics at DfE

   • 20 July 2018
   • Department for Education
   • Statistics

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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. Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

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1. Department for Work & Pensions
2. School Teachers' Review Body
3. Prime Minister's Office, 10 Downing Street
4. Department of Health & Social Care
5. Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government
6. Teaching Regulation Agency
7. Cabinet Office
8. HM Treasury
9. Ministry of Defence
10. Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy
11. Foreign & Commonwealth Office
12. Government Equalities Office
13. Ministry of Justice
14. HM Courts & Tribunals Service
15. Schools Commissioners Group
16. Office of Manpower Economics
17. HM Revenue & Customs
18. Civil Service Fast Track Apprenticeship
19. Department for Transport
20. Crown Commercial Service
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. Department for International Development
28. Northern Ireland Office
29. Office for Disability Issues
30. Race Disparity Unit
31. Government Economic Service
32. Government Finance Profession
33. Civil Service Resourcing
34. Driver & Vehicle Licensing Agency
35. Driver & Vehicle Standards Agency
36. Government Digital Service
37. Government Legal Department
38. Intellectual Property Office
39. Office of the Advocate General for Scotland
40. Social Mobility Commission
41. Office of the Leader of the House of Commons
42. UK Atomic Energy Authority
43. UK Export Finance

1. Ofqual
2. Ofsted
3. Youth Justice Board for England and Wales
4. Defence Science and Technology Laboratory
5. Natural England
6. The Charity Commission
7. Highways England
8. Social Security Advisory Committee
9. UK Hydrographic Office