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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

• 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

• Recruit an apprentice

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

• What qualification levels mean

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

• Find a traineeship

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

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Guidance and regulation

• Search for apprenticeship standards

  Detailed guide

  3 November 2017

  Institute for Apprenticeships

• LRS organisational portal

  Guidance

  10 October 2018

  Education and Skills Funding Agency

• Apprenticeship funding bands

  Guidance

  16 October 2018

  Education and Skills Funding Agency

• A guide to apprenticeships
  • Guidance
  • 10 October 2018
  • Education and Skills Funding Agency
• Higher and degree apprenticeships
  • Guidance
  • 14 May 2018
  • Education and Skills Funding Agency

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News and communications

16 October 2018 — Press release

Youth unemployment down 50% since 2010

Department for Work and Pensions

1. FE providers benefit from scheme to boost teaching workforce
   • 12 October 2018
   • Department for Education
   • Press release
2. Aspire Achieve Advance 3aaa apprenticeship training provider termination of contracts
   • 11 October 2018
   • Education and Skills Funding Agency
   • News story
3. ESFA Update: 10 October 2018
   • 10 October 2018
   • Education and Skills Funding Agency
   • Correspondence
4. Engineering Construction Industry Training Board: priorities letter
   • 8 October 2018
   • Department for Education and Engineering Construction Industry Training Board
   • Correspondence

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Research and statistics

• Destinations of KS4 and KS5 pupils: 2017
  • 16 October 2018
  • Department for Education
  • Official statistics
• Race Disparity Audit
  • 11 October 2018
  • Cabinet Office, Department for Education, Department of Health and Social Care, Ministry of Justice, Prime Minister's Office, 10 Downing Street, and Race Disparity Unit
  • Research
• Community learning mental health research project
  • 10 October 2018
  • Department for Education
  • Research
• Employer skills survey 2017: Northern Ireland toolkit
  • 8 October 2018
  • Department for Education
  • Research
• Employer skills survey 2017: Scotland toolkit
  • 8 October 2018
  • Department for Education
  • Research

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Policy papers and consultations

• Implementation of Technical Qualifications 3 September 2018

  Ofqual

  Open consultation

  Closing date 28 October 2018

• Ofqual’s approach to regulating Technical Qualifications 3 September 2018

  Ofqual

  Consultation outcome

  Date closed 06 August 2018

• Introduction of T Levels
  • 11 October 2018
  • Department for Education
  • Policy paper
• Institutes of Technology competition
  • 2 October 2018
  • Department for Education
  • Policy paper
• Treating students fairly: response to the House of Lords report
  • 10 August 2018
  • Department for Education
  • Policy paper

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Transparency and freedom of information releases

• Chevening impact report
  • 11 October 2018
  • Foreign & Commonwealth Office and Chevening Scholarship Programme
  • Corporate report
• nucleargraduates: 10 years of achievement
  • 11 October 2018
  • Nuclear Decommissioning Authority
  • Corporate report
• Funding allocations to training providers: 2018 to 2019
  • 2 October 2018
  • Education and Skills Funding Agency
  • Transparency
• T Level panels: membership
  • 18 September 2018
  • Department for Education
  • Transparency
• Uplift factors and postcode files
  • 12 September 2018
  • 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. Prime Minister's Office, 10 Downing Street
5. Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy

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1. Cabinet Office
2. HM Treasury
3. Civil Service Fast Track Apprenticeship
4. Foreign & Commonwealth Office
5. Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport
6. Ministry of Defence
7. Ministry of Justice
8. Government Economic Service
9. HM Revenue & Customs
10. Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government
11. Department of Health & Social Care
12. Central Arbitration Committee
13. Department for Transport
14. Race Disparity Unit
15. Civil Service Resourcing
16. Crown Commercial Service
17. Department for International Development
18. Government Equalities Office
19. Office of the Advocate General for Scotland
20. Teaching Regulation Agency
21. UK Atomic Energy Authority
22. UK Export Finance

1. Ofqual
2. Ofsted
3. Defence Science and Technology Laboratory
4. Nuclear Decommissioning Authority
5. Defence Equipment and Support
6. Highways England
7. Innovate UK
8. Sellafield Ltd
9. UK Hydrographic Office