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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. Minimum wage: work experience and internships
    • Detailed guide
    • Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy
  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

Colleges receive funding boost to help raise standards

Department for Education

  1. Education Secretary outlines plans to get more people into skilled jobs
    • Department for Education
    • News story
  2. Damian Hinds Technical Education Speech
    • Department for Education
    • Speech
  3. Further intervention on student mental health
    • Department for Education
    • News story
  4. Workshops for creative industries professionals
    • World news story
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Research and statistics

  1. Undergraduate degrees: labour market returns
    • Department for Education
    • Research
  2. International comparison of courses in hairdressing and barbering
    • Department for Education
    • Official statistics
  3. Provider and local authority tables
    • Department for Education
    • Statistical data set
  4. Apprenticeship and levy statistics: November 2018
    • Department for Education
    • Official statistics
  5. Further education and skills data
    • Department for Education and Education and Skills Funding Agency
    • Statistical data set
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Policy papers and consultations

  1. Funding for the delivery of T levels
    • Department for Education
    • Open consultation
    • Closing date 19 February 2019
  2. T Level action plan
    • Department for Education
    • Policy paper
  3. Post-16 skills plan and independent report on technical education
    • Closed organisation: Department for Business, Innovation & Skills and Department for Education
    • Policy paper
  4. Accelerated degree courses: assessment of impact
    • Department for Education
    • Impact assessment
  5. Review of TEF: terms of reference
    • Department for Education
    • Policy paper
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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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Organisations

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