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. Student finance

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

3. Find an apprenticeship

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

4. Apply online for student finance

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

5. Student finance: how to apply

   How to apply for student finance - when to apply, deadlines, proof of identity, parents, income, change an application

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Guidance and regulation

1. Find postgraduate teacher training courses in England
   • Detailed guide
   • 4 October 2018
   • Department for Education
2. Early years foundation stage statutory framework (EYFS)
   • Statutory guidance
   • 20 February 2018
   • Department for Education
3. Key stage 2 tests: 2018 mathematics test materials
   • Guidance
   • 4 September 2018
   • Standards and Testing Agency
4. Working together to safeguard children
   • Statutory guidance
   • 21 February 2019
   • Department for Education
5. Key stage 1 and key stage 2 test dates
   • Detailed guide
   • 20 December 2018
   • Standards and Testing Agency

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News and communications

25 April 2019 — News story

Graduates continue to benefit with higher earnings

Department for Education

1. Understanding the regulation of End-Point Assessments
   • 24 April 2019
   • Ofqual
   • Speech
2. ESFA Update: 24 April 2019
   • 24 April 2019
   • Education and Skills Funding Agency
   • Correspondence
3. New programme to boost judicial diversity
   • 24 April 2019
   • Ministry of Justice
   • Press release
4. Letter to awarding organisations: international qualifications
   • 24 April 2019
   • Ofqual
   • Correspondence

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Research and statistics

1. Graduate labour market statistics: 2018
   • 25 April 2019
   • Department for Education
   • Official statistics
2. A level and other 16 to 18 results: 2017 to 2018 (revised)
   • 23 April 2019
   • Department for Education
   • National statistics
3. Assessment functioning of external assessments
   • 18 April 2019
   • Ofqual
   • Research
4. Unregistered schools management information
   • 12 April 2019
   • Ofsted
   • Statistical data set
5. FE learners and apprentices survey
   • 11 April 2019
   • Department for Education
   • Research

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Policy papers and consultations

1. Changes to our rules for reviews of marking, moderation and appeals
   • 23 April 2019
   • Ofqual
   • Consultation outcome
   • Date closed 25 January 2019
2. Regulating Basic Digital Skills Qualifications
   • 23 April 2019
   • Ofqual
   • Consultation outcome
   • Date closed 13 January 2019
3. Improving adult basic digital skills
   • 23 April 2019
   • Department for Education
   • Consultation outcome
   • Date closed 10 January 2019
4. Guided learning in Functional Skills
   • 12 April 2019
   • Ofqual
   • Open consultation
   • Closing date 30 April 2019
5. Improving adult basic digital skills: equality impact assessment
   • 23 April 2019
   • Department for Education
   • Impact assessment

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Transparency and freedom of information releases

1. South-West England headteacher board
   • 25 April 2019
   • Schools Commissioners Group
   • Transparency
2. CSC Business Plan 2019
   • 24 April 2019
   • Department for International Development and Commonwealth Scholarship Commission in the UK
   • Corporate report
3. CSC Corporate Plan 2019
   • 24 April 2019
   • Department for International Development and Commonwealth Scholarship Commission in the UK
   • Corporate report
4. Teachers' pension scheme payments: 2018 to 2019
   • 17 April 2019
   • Department for Education
   • Transparency
5. Local authority interactive tool (LAIT)
   • 11 April 2019
   • 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. Foreign & Commonwealth Office
8. Ministry of Defence
9. Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy
10. HM Treasury
11. Cabinet Office
12. Government Equalities Office
13. Ministry of Justice
14. Department for International Development
15. Schools Commissioners Group
16. Department for International Trade
17. Office of Manpower Economics
18. HM Revenue & Customs
19. Civil Service Fast Track Apprenticeship
20. Commonwealth Scholarship Commission in the UK
21. Department for Transport
22. Home Office
23. Public Health England
24. Government Economic Service
25. Crown Commercial Service
26. HM Courts & Tribunals Service
27. Race Disparity Unit
28. Central Arbitration Committee
29. Department for Environment Food & Rural Affairs
30. Government Legal Department
31. UK Atomic Energy Authority
32. Attorney General's Office
33. Civil Service
34. Digital, Data and Technology Profession
35. Groceries Code Adjudicator
36. Northern Ireland Office
37. Office for Disability Issues
38. Office of the Secretary of State for Wales Swyddfa Ysgrifennydd Gwladol Cymru
39. Social Mobility Commission
40. Border Force
41. Child Safeguarding Practice Review Panel
42. Government Finance Profession
43. Civil Service Resourcing
44. Driver & Vehicle Licensing Agency
45. Driver & Vehicle Standards Agency
46. Government Actuary's Department
47. Government Digital Service
48. Immigration Enforcement
49. Intellectual Property Office
50. Marine Management Organisation
51. Office of the Advocate General for Scotland
52. Rural Payments Agency
53. Coal Authority
54. Office of the Leader of the House of Commons
55. UK Visas and Immigration

1. Ofqual
2. Ofsted
3. Nuclear Decommissioning Authority
4. UK Space Agency
5. Sellafield Ltd
6. UK Hydrographic Office
7. Defence Science and Technology Laboratory
8. Youth Justice Board for England and Wales
9. Government Chemist
10. Low Level Waste Repository Ltd
11. Natural England
12. Defence Equipment and Support
13. High Speed Two (HS2) Limited
14. Innovate UK
15. Low Pay Commission
16. Social Security Advisory Committee
17. The Charity Commission
18. Dounreay
19. Environment Agency
20. Government Internal Audit Agency
21. Highways England
22. Magnox Ltd
23. National Counter Terrorism Security Office
24. Radioactive Waste Management
25. UK Council for Internet Safety

Explore 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