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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.

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. Recruit an apprentice

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

  4. What qualification levels mean

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

  5. Employing an apprentice

    How to take on an apprentice as an employer, what's expected of you and what funding you can get.

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Guidance and regulation

  1. Higher and degree apprenticeships
    • Guidance
    • Education and Skills Funding Agency
  2. Condition Improvement Fund
    • Detailed guide
    • Department for Education
  3. Search for apprenticeship standards
    • Detailed guide
    • Institute for Apprenticeships
  4. Register of apprenticeship training providers
    • Detailed guide
    • Education and Skills Funding Agency
  5. Apprenticeship funding bands
    • Guidance
    • Education and Skills Funding Agency
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News and communications

News story

ESFA funded adult education budget 2019 to 2020 illustrative allocations issued

Education and Skills Funding Agency

  1. Blazing a Trail with National Apprenticeship Week 2019
    • Education and Skills Funding Agency
    • News story
  2. Functional Skills - letter from DfE to Chief Regulator
    • Ofqual
    • Correspondence
  3. Second round of £5 million Taking Teaching Further programme opens
    • Department for Education
    • News story
  4. ESFA Update: 12 December 2018
    • Education and Skills Funding Agency
    • Correspondence
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Research and statistics

  1. Strengthening vocational and technical qualifications
    • Ofqual
    • Research
  2. Undergraduate degrees: labour market returns
    • Department for Education
    • Research
  3. International comparison of courses in hairdressing and barbering
    • Department for Education
    • Official statistics
  4. Provider and local authority tables
    • Department for Education
    • Statistical data set
  5. Apprenticeship and levy statistics: November 2018
    • Department for Education
    • Official statistics
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Policy papers and consultations

  1. Implementation of Technical Qualifications
    • Ofqual
    • Consultation outcome
    • Date closed 28 October 2018
  2. Funding for the delivery of T levels
    • Department for Education
    • Open consultation
    • Closing date 19 February 2019
  3. T Level action plan
    • Department for Education
    • Policy paper
  4. Post-16 skills plan and independent report on technical education
    • Closed organisation: Department for Business, Innovation & Skills and Department for Education
    • Policy paper
  5. Accelerated degree courses: assessment of impact
    • Department for Education
    • Impact assessment
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Transparency and freedom of information releases

  1. Institute for Apprenticeships annual report and accounts 2017 to 2018
    • Institute for Apprenticeships
    • Corporate report
  2. Strategic college improvement fund: successful applicants
    • Department for Education
    • Transparency
  3. Further Education Commissioner: annual report 2017 to 2018
    • Department for Education
    • Corporate report
  4. List of declared subcontractors
    • Education and Skills Funding Agency
    • Transparency
  5. NEET data by local authority
    • Department for Education
    • Transparency
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