Further and higher education courses and qualifications
Functional skills, essential digital skills, qualifications eligible for funding, what qualification levels mean and checking a university is recognised.
Services
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What qualification levels mean
Find the difficulty level of a qualification and compare qualifications across different countries.
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Career skills and training
Find courses and training online with the National Careers Service and get advice on funding the costs of learning
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Further education courses and funding
Find and apply for a further or adult education course and work out what financial help you can get
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Check if your university or college can award a degree
Recognised bodies, listed bodies, recognised universities, accredited higher learning institutions, bogus degrees
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Improve your English, maths and IT skills
Improve skills like reading, writing, maths or Information and Communication Technology (ICT) - courses, qualifications, find a course and help
Guidance and regulation
- Studying in the UK: guidance for EU students
- Find out if you need an ATAS certificate
- Vocational and technical qualifications contingency regulatory framework
- Awarding of functional skills in 2021
- Educational Psychology Funded Training
News and communications
- Turing scheme to open up global study and work opportunities
- Qualifications review consultation response
- Letter from Dame Glenys Stacey to AoC, Sixth Form Colleges Association, HOLEX, AELP, the Exams Office and ASCL
- Record numbers of nursing students as pandemic inspires next generation
- Glenys Stacey's speech at Inside Government Apprenticeship Conference 2020
Research and statistics
- Graduate outcomes (LEO): 2015 to 2016
- Graduate outcomes (LEO): 2017 to 2018
- Vocational and other qualifications quarterly: October to December 2020
- Vocational qualifications dataset
- Higher education performance indicators UK: non-continuation 2019 to 2020
Policy papers and consultations
- Regulatory arrangements for the awarding of vocational and technical and other general qualifications in 2020-2021
- Consultation on alternative arrangements for the award of VTQs and other general qualifications in 2021
- Consultation on the arrangements for the assessment and awarding of vocational, technical and other general qualifications in 2020 to 2021
- National retraining scheme
- Package of support for students who have to defer their studies
Transparency and freedom of information releases
- Occupational pathways of technical qualifications
- Qualifications at level 3 and below: contextual information
- Post-16 pathways at level 3 and below
- End point assessment quality assurance report: 2018 to 2019
- Non-GCSE qualifications in England: key stage 4 entries and absence and exclusions outcomes