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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. Search for apprenticeship standards
    • Detailed guide
    • Institute for Apprenticeships
  2. Apprenticeship funding bands
    • Guidance
    • Education and Skills Funding Agency
  3. LRS organisational portal
    • Guidance
    • Education and Skills Funding Agency
  4. Universal Credit and students
    • Detailed guide
    • Department for Work and Pensions
  5. A guide to apprenticeships
    • Guidance
    • Education and Skills Funding Agency
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News and communications

News story

Construction industry to benefit from major skills boost

Department for Education

  1. ESFA Update: 14 November 2018
    • Education and Skills Funding Agency
    • Correspondence
  2. Grading vocational and technical assessments
    • Ofqual
    • News story
  3. Apprenticeships at WorldSkills UK Live – 15 to 17 November
    • Education and Skills Funding Agency
    • News story
  4. ESFA Update: 7 November 2018
    • Education and Skills Funding Agency
    • Correspondence
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Research and statistics

  1. Apprenticeships in England by industry sector
    • Department for Education
    • Research
  2. Apprenticeship and levy statistics: October 2018
    • Department for Education
    • Official statistics
  3. Equality and diversity
    • Department for Education
    • Statistical data set
  4. Apprenticeship vacancies archive
    • Department for Education and Education and Skills Funding Agency
    • Statistical data set
  5. Apprenticeships and traineeships data
    • Department for Education
    • Statistical data set
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Policy papers and consultations

  1. Regulating Basic Digital Skills Qualifications
    • Ofqual
    • Open consultation
    • Closing date 13 January 2019
  2. Teaching Excellence and Student Outcomes Framework: subject-level
    • Department for Education
    • Consultation outcome
    • Date closed 21 May 2018
  3. Improving adult basic digital skills
    • Department for Education
    • Open consultation
    • Closing date 10 January 2019
  4. Introduction of T Levels
    • Department for Education
    • Policy paper
  5. Institutes of Technology competition
    • Department for Education
    • Policy paper
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Transparency and freedom of information releases

  1. Strategic college improvement fund: successful applicants
    • Department for Education
    • Transparency
  2. List of declared subcontractors
    • Education and Skills Funding Agency
    • Transparency
  3. NEET data by local authority
    • Department for Education
    • Transparency
  4. Participation in education and training: local authority figures
    • Department for Education
    • Transparency
  5. Young people NEET or activity unknown: comparative data scorecard
    • Department for Education
    • Transparency
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Organisations

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