Further and higher education, skills and vocational training
University and college qualifications. Apprenticeships, traineeships and internships. Funding for further education providers.
Services
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Find an apprenticeship
Register your profile, search vacancies and apply for an apprenticeship - you must be 16 or over
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Become an apprentice
Becoming an apprentice - what to expect, apprenticeship levels, pay and training, making an application, complaining about an apprenticeship
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Recruit an apprentice
Advertise apprenticeship vacancies and manage applications. This service is for training organisations, not employers
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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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Employing an apprentice
How to employ an apprentice, what's expected of you and what funding you can get.
Guidance and regulation
- Incentive payments for hiring a new apprentice
- Free courses for jobs
- Universal Credit and students
- How to register and use the apprenticeship service as an employer
- Condition Improvement Fund
News and communications
Research and statistics
- Perceptions of vocational and technical qualifications - wave 4
- Post-16 education and labour market activities and outcomes of looked-after children (LEO)
- Post-16 education and labour market activities, pathways and outcomes (LEO)
- Vocational and other qualifications quarterly: January to March 2021
- Vocational qualifications dataset
Policy papers and consultations
- Amending the 'Taking Regulatory Action' policy
- Consultation on autumn assessment opportunities for VTQ and other general qualifications
- Flexi-job apprenticeships: reshaping the role of apprenticeship training agencies
- Skills and Post-16 Education Bill: impact assessment and JCHR memorandum
- Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education: strategic guidance
Transparency and freedom of information releases
- List of declared subcontractors
- Ofqual equalities report 2021
- 16 to 19 allocation data: 2020 to 2021 academic year
- Funding allocations to training providers: 2020 to 2021
- Measuring the net present value of further education in England 2018 to 2019
Organisations
- Ofqual
- Ofsted
- Nuclear Decommissioning Authority
- Sellafield Ltd
- Security Industry Authority
- Defence Science and Technology Laboratory
- Dounreay
- High Speed Two (HS2) Limited
- UK Hydrographic Office
- Defence Equipment and Support
- Environment Agency
- Low Level Waste Repository Ltd
- Magnox Ltd
- Natural England
- Radioactive Waste Management
- Council for Science and Technology
- Highways England
- Innovate UK
Explore sub-topics
- Adult and community learning
- Apprenticeships, traineeships and internships
- Careers guidance in further and higher education
- Education in prisons
- Further and higher education courses and qualifications
- Further education financial management and data collection
- Further education funding
- Learning Records Service (LRS)
- Running a further or higher education institution
- T levels