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. Find an apprenticeship

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

2. Become an apprentice

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

3. What qualification levels mean

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

4. Employing an apprentice

   How to employ an apprentice, what's expected of you and what funding you can get.

5. Recruit an apprentice

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

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Guidance and regulation

1. Student guide to post-16 qualification results: summer 2020
   • Guidance
   • 13 August 2020
   • Ofqual
2. Universal Credit and students
   • Detailed guide
   • 7 April 2020
   • Department for Work and Pensions
3. Apprenticeship funding rules
   • Detailed guide
   • 30 July 2020
   • Education and Skills Funding Agency
4. How to register and use the apprenticeship service as an employer
   • Detailed guide
   • 13 February 2020
   • Education and Skills Funding Agency
5. Providing apprenticeships during the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak
   • Guidance
   • 30 July 2020
   • Department for Education and Education and Skills Funding Agency

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News and communications

13 August 2020 — Correspondence

Letter to heads of admissions, higher education - 7 August 2020

Ofqual

1. ESFA Update: 12 August 2020
   • 12 August 2020
   • Education and Skills Funding Agency
   • Correspondence
2. Government urges universities to hold places
   • 10 August 2020
   • Department for Education
   • News story
3. ESFA Update: 5 August 2020
   • 5 August 2020
   • Education and Skills Funding Agency
   • Correspondence
4. ESFA: Business Update
   • 5 August 2020
   • Education and Skills Funding Agency
   • Correspondence

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Research and statistics

1. Analysis of Level 3 and Level 4 VTQs in spring and summer 2020
   • 13 August 2020
   • Ofqual
   • Research
2. Apprenticeships and traineeships: July 2020
   • 30 July 2020
   • Department for Education
   • Official statistics
3. Malpractice in vocational and technical qualifications: academic year 2017 to 2018
   • 29 July 2020
   • Ofqual
   • Research
4. Hours spent building skills and employability
   • 21 July 2020
   • Department for Education
   • Research
5. Education and training
   • 16 July 2020
   • Department for Education
   • Statistical data set

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Policy papers and consultations

1. Consultation on the assessment and awarding of Vocational, Technical and other General Qualifications in 2020 to 2021
   • 3 August 2020
   • Ofqual
   • Open consultation
   • Closing date 14 August 2020
2. Improving higher technical education
   • 14 July 2020
   • Department for Education
   • Consultation outcome
   • Date closed 29 September 2019
3. Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education: strategic guidance
   • 21 July 2020
   • Department for Education
   • Policy paper
4. Apprenticeship funding
   • 14 July 2020
   • Education and Skills Funding Agency
   • Policy paper
5. Statutory notice to the Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education
   • 14 July 2020
   • Department for Education
   • Policy paper

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Transparency and freedom of information releases

1. Responses to post-inspection surveys: inspections and visits between 1 September 2015 and 31 August 2019
   • 24 July 2020
   • Ofsted
   • Transparency
2. Funding allocations to training providers: 2018 to 2019
   • 20 July 2020
   • Education and Skills Funding Agency
   • Transparency
3. Ofqual's corporate plan for 2020 to 2021
   • 17 July 2020
   • Ofqual
   • Corporate report
4. NEET and participation: local authority figures
   • 9 July 2020
   • Department for Education
   • Transparency
5. Funding allocations to training providers: 2019 to 2020
   • 8 June 2020
   • Education and Skills Funding Agency
   • Transparency

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Organisations

1. Department for Education
2. Education & Skills Funding Agency
3. Department for Work & Pensions
4. Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy
5. Prime Minister's Office, 10 Downing Street

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1. Foreign & Commonwealth Office
2. Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport
3. Department of Health & Social Care
4. HM Treasury
5. Ministry of Defence
6. Civil Service Fast Track Apprenticeship
7. Further Education Commissioner
8. Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government
9. Cabinet Office
10. Ministry of Justice
11. Public Health England
12. Government Economic Service
13. Department for Transport
14. HM Revenue & Customs
15. Department for International Trade
16. Social Mobility Commission
17. UK Atomic Energy Authority
18. Central Arbitration Committee
19. Government Equalities Office
20. Office for Artificial Intelligence
21. Race Disparity Unit
22. Crown Commercial Service
23. Department for International Development
24. Marine Management Organisation
25. Office of the Advocate General for Scotland
26. Teaching Regulation Agency
27. Coal Authority

1. Ofqual
2. Ofsted
3. Nuclear Decommissioning Authority
4. Sellafield Ltd
5. Defence Science and Technology Laboratory
6. High Speed Two (HS2) Limited
7. UK Hydrographic Office
8. Defence Equipment and Support
9. Environment Agency
10. Natural England
11. Dounreay
12. Government Internal Audit Agency
13. Highways England
14. Innovate UK
15. Low Level Waste Repository Ltd
16. Magnox Ltd
17. Radioactive Waste Management

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1. Adult and community learning
2. Apprenticeships, traineeships and internships
3. Careers guidance in further and higher education
4. Education in prisons
5. Further and higher education courses and qualifications
6. Further education financial management and data collection
7. Further education funding
8. Learning Records Service (LRS)
9. Running a further or higher education institution
10. T levels