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
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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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Recruit an apprentice
Advertise apprenticeship vacancies and manage applications. This service is for training organisations, not employers
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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
- Universal Credit and students
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): guidance on isolation for residential educational settings
- How to register and use the apprenticeship service as an employer
- Actions for FE colleges and providers during the coronavirus outbreak
- Apprenticeship funding rules
News and communications
ESFA Update: 23 September 2020
Correspondence
Research and statistics
- Vocational qualifications dataset
- Welfare and duty of care in Armed Forces initial training
- Vocational and other qualifications quarterly: April to June 2020
- College staff survey: 2018
- Postgraduate degrees: labour market returns
Policy papers and consultations
- Consultation on the arrangements for the assessment and awarding of vocational, technical and other general qualifications in 2020 to 2021
- Consultation on the assessment and awarding of Vocational, Technical and other General Qualifications in 2020 to 2021
- Package of support for students who have to defer their studies
- Reducing bureaucratic burden: higher education
- Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education: strategic guidance
Transparency and freedom of information releases
- HS2 Phase One vocational qualifications reports, 2017 to 2019
- Adult Education Budget (AEB) postcode files
- Uplift factors and postcode files
- Capital allocations for FE colleges and designated institutions
- Responses to post-inspection surveys: inspections and visits between 1 September 2015 and 31 August 2019
Organisations
- Ofqual
- Ofsted
- Nuclear Decommissioning Authority
- Sellafield Ltd
- Defence Science and Technology Laboratory
- High Speed Two (HS2) Limited
- UK Hydrographic Office
- Defence Equipment and Support
- Environment Agency
- Natural England
- Dounreay
- Government Internal Audit Agency
- 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