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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What qualification levels mean
Find the difficulty level of a qualification and compare qualifications across different countries.
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Career skills and training
Find courses and training online with the National Careers Service and get advice on funding the costs of learning
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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
- Higher education providers: coronavirus (COVID-19)
- Actions for FE colleges and providers during the coronavirus outbreak
- Qualifications in new funded offers
- Universal Credit and students
- National Skills Fund
News and communications
Research and statistics
- Apprenticeships and traineeships: February 2021
- Decision making of adult learners below level 2
- Student Retention Performance Indicators in HE 2019/20
- Higher education performance indicators UK: non-continuation 2019 to 2020
- ApprenticeshipsNI 2013/2017: Quarterly Statistics from August 2013 to October 2020.
Policy papers and consultations
- Consultation on alternative arrangements for the award of VTQs and other general qualifications in 2021
- Regulatory arrangements for the awarding of vocational and technical and other general qualifications in 2020-2021
- Introducing international qualified teacher status (iQTS)
- Higher education: free speech and academic freedom
- Higher education student finance 2021 to 2022: equality analysis
Transparency and freedom of information releases
- Coronavirus (COVID-19) reporting in higher education providers
- T Level panels: membership
- Further education college workforce analysis
- CITB annual report and accounts 2019 to 2020
- 16 to 19 subcontracting
Organisations
- Ofqual
- Ofsted
- Nuclear Decommissioning Authority
- Sellafield Ltd
- Defence Science and Technology Laboratory
- Security Industry Authority
- High Speed Two (HS2) Limited
- UK Hydrographic Office
- Defence Equipment and Support
- Dounreay
- Environment Agency
- Natural England
- Highways England
- Innovate UK
- Low Level Waste Repository Ltd
- Magnox Ltd
- Radioactive Waste Management
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