Further and higher education, skills and vocational training

University and college qualifications. Apprenticeships, traineeships and internships. Funding for further education providers.

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Services

1. Recruit an apprentice

   Advertise apprenticeship vacancies and manage applications. This service is for training organisations, not employers

2. Find a traineeship

   Apply for a traineeship in England - get ready to work or an apprenticeship

3. Courses and qualifications for 14 to 19 year olds

   Find out what vocational or academic courses and qualifications are available at schools, colleges and sixth forms in your area

1. Find an internship

   Use the Graduate Talent Pool to find internships if you're a new or recent graduate in the European Economic Area (EEA)

2. Find a regulated qualification

   Check if a qualification is regulated and what level it is on the Regulated Qualifications Framework (RQF)

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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

   Answer

2. Become an apprentice

   Becoming an apprentice - what to expect, apprenticeship levels, pay and training, making an application, complaining about an apprenticeship

   Guide

3. What qualification levels mean

   Find the difficulty level of a qualification and compare qualifications across different countries.

   Guide

1. Civil Service Fast Track Apprenticeship schemes

   • Detailed guide
   • 20 February 2017
   • Civil Service Fast Track Apprenticeship

2. Employing an apprentice

   How to take on an apprentice as an employer, what's expected of you and what funding you can get.

   • Guide

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News and communications

1. ESFA update: April 2018

   • 18 April 2018
   • Education and Skills Funding Agency
   • Correspondence

2. Find out what’s new about the National Apprenticeship Awards 2018 – now open for entries

   • 18 April 2018
   • Education and Skills Funding Agency
   • News story

3. 600,000 graduates to benefit from financial milestone

   • 6 April 2018
   • Department for Education
   • News story

4. IoH and AI surrender Ofqual recognition

   • 6 April 2018
   • Ofqual
   • News story

5. Further Education Commissioner objective setting letter

   • 5 April 2018
   • Department for Education
   • Correspondence

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Policy and engagement

1. Performance reporting: FE college groups and multi-site colleges 10 April 2018

   Department for Education

   Open consultation

   Closing date 10 June 2018

2. Implementing functional skills reform 28 March 2018

   Ofqual

   Open consultation

   Closing date 11 May 2018

3. Reforming functional skills qualifications in English and maths 28 March 2018

   Ofqual

   Consultation outcome

   Date closed 22 November 2017

1. FE residential accommodation: national minimum standards

   • 28 March 2018
   • Department for Education
   • Consultation outcome
   • Date closed 26 January 2018

2. Office for Students: monetary and financial penalties

   • 22 March 2018
   • Department for Education and Office for Students
   • Consultation outcome
   • Date closed 09 February 2018

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Transparency

1. Graduate labour market statistics: 2017

   • 24 April 2018
   • Department for Education
   • Official statistics

2. Experimental UK Performance Indicators 2016 to 2017: further tables

   • 19 April 2018
   • Department for Education
   • Official statistics

3. Uplift factors and postcode files

   • 11 April 2018
   • Education and Skills Funding Agency
   • Transparency

4. Apprenticeships: off-the-job training hours estimates

   • 29 March 2018
   • Department for Education
   • Transparency

5. FE data library: other statistics and research

   • 29 March 2018
   • Department for Education and Education and Skills Funding Agency
   • Statistical data set

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Organisations

1. Department for Education

2. Ofqual

3. Education and Skills Funding Agency

4. Ofsted

5. Prime Minister's Office, 10 Downing Street

6. Department for Work and Pensions

7. Civil Service Fast Track Apprenticeship

8. Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy

9. Cabinet Office

10. Defence Science and Technology Laboratory

11. Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

12. Department of Health and Social Care

13. Foreign & Commonwealth Office

14. HM Revenue & Customs

15. Central Arbitration Committee

16. Ministry of Justice

17. Race Disparity Unit

18. Government Economic Service

19. Department for International Development

20. HM Treasury

21. Ministry of Defence

22. Office of the Advocate General for Scotland

23. UK Atomic Energy Authority

24. UK Hydrographic Office