Further and higher education, skills and vocational training

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Find an apprenticeship
Register your profile, search vacancies and apply for an apprenticeship - you must be 16 or over
Become an apprentice
Becoming an apprentice - what to expect, apprenticeship levels, pay and training, making an application, complaining about an apprenticeship
What qualification levels mean
Find the difficulty level of a qualification and compare qualifications across different countries.
Career skills and training
Find courses and training online with the National Careers Service and get advice on funding the costs of learning
Employing an apprentice
How to employ an apprentice, what's expected of you and what funding you can get.

Higher education providers: coronavirus (COVID-19)
- Guidance
- 2 March 2021
- Department for Education
Actions for FE colleges and providers during the coronavirus outbreak
- Guidance
- 22 February 2021
- Department for Education
Qualifications in new funded offers
- Guidance
- 26 February 2021
- Education and Skills Funding Agency
Universal Credit and students
- Detailed guide
- 15 January 2021
- Department for Work and Pensions
National Skills Fund
- Detailed guide
- 24 February 2021
- Department for Education

Skills Advisory Panels: S31 grant determination letters
- 2 March 2021
- Department for Education
- Correspondence
Education Secretary speaks at launch of digital learning review
- 25 February 2021
- Department for Education and Office for Students
- Speech
How qualifications will be awarded in 2021
- 25 February 2021
- Ofqual
- Authored article
ESFA Update: 24 February 2021
- 24 February 2021
- Education and Skills Funding Agency
- Correspondence
Changes to the training you need for an SIA licence
- 23 February 2021
- Security Industry Authority
- News story

Apprenticeships and traineeships: February 2021
- 25 February 2021
- Department for Education
- Official statistics
Decision making of adult learners below level 2
- 25 February 2021
- Department for Education
- Research
Student Retention Performance Indicators in HE 2019/20
- 24 February 2021
- Department for the Economy (Northern Ireland) and Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency
- Official statistics
Higher education performance indicators UK: non-continuation 2019 to 2020
- 24 February 2021
- Higher Education Statistics Agency and Department for Education
- Official statistics
ApprenticeshipsNI 2013/2017: Quarterly Statistics from August 2013 to October 2020.
- 24 February 2021
- Department for the Economy (Northern Ireland) and Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency
- Official statistics

Consultation on alternative arrangements for the award of VTQs and other general qualifications in 2021
- 25 February 2021
- Ofqual and Department for Education
- Consultation outcome
- Date closed 29 January 2021
Regulatory arrangements for the awarding of vocational and technical and other general qualifications in 2020-2021
- 25 February 2021
- Ofqual
- Open consultation
- Closing date 11 March 2021
Introducing international qualified teacher status (iQTS)
- 6 February 2021
- Department for Education
- Open consultation
- Closing date 03 May 2021
Higher education: free speech and academic freedom
- 17 February 2021
- Department for Education
- Policy paper
Higher education student finance 2021 to 2022: equality analysis
- 8 February 2021
- Department for Education
- Impact assessment

Coronavirus (COVID-19) reporting in higher education providers
- 19 February 2021
- Department for Education
- Transparency
T Level panels: membership
- 9 February 2021
- Department for Education
- Transparency
Further education college workforce analysis
- 29 January 2021
- Department for Education
- Transparency
CITB annual report and accounts 2019 to 2020
- 28 January 2021
- Construction Industry Training Board
- Corporate report
16 to 19 subcontracting
- 21 January 2021
- Education and Skills Funding Agency
- Transparency

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