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

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
   • 3 November 2017
   • Institute for Apprenticeships
2. Apprenticeship funding bands
   • Guidance
   • 9 November 2018
   • Education and Skills Funding Agency
3. LRS organisational portal
   • Guidance
   • 16 November 2018
   • Education and Skills Funding Agency
4. A guide to apprenticeships
   • Guidance
   • 10 October 2018
   • Education and Skills Funding Agency
5. Universal Credit and students
   • Detailed guide
   • 6 November 2018
   • Department for Work and Pensions

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News and communications

20 November 2018 — News story

Higher education expert to review TEF

Department for Education

1. Top college leaders to help strengthen further education sector
   • 20 November 2018
   • Department for Education
   • News story
2. Education and Sport were GREAT in Ashgabat exhibition
   • 19 November 2018
   • World news story
3. Government boosts student choice with two-year degrees
   • 18 November 2018
   • Department for Education
   • News story
4. Construction industry to benefit from major skills boost
   • 16 November 2018
   • Department for Education
   • News story

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Research and statistics

1. Identifying FE teacher comparators
   • 20 November 2018
   • Department for Education
   • Research
2. Post-16 education: outcomes for disadvantaged students
   • 20 November 2018
   • Department for Education
   • Research
3. College staff survey: 2018
   • 20 November 2018
   • Department for Education
   • Research
4. FE learners and apprentices survey
   • 20 November 2018
   • Department for Education
   • Research
5. Apprenticeships in England by industry sector
   • 25 October 2018
   • Department for Education
   • Research

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Policy papers and consultations

1. Accelerated degrees: widening student choice in higher education
   • 19 November 2018
   • Department for Education and Office for Students
   • Consultation outcome
   • Date closed 11 February 2018
2. Regulating Basic Digital Skills Qualifications
   • 5 November 2018
   • Ofqual
   • Open consultation
   • Closing date 13 January 2019
3. Teaching Excellence and Student Outcomes Framework: subject-level
   • 22 October 2018
   • Department for Education
   • Consultation outcome
   • Date closed 21 May 2018
4. Review of TEF: terms of reference
   • 19 November 2018
   • Department for Education
   • Policy paper
5. Accelerated degree courses: assessment of impact
   • 19 November 2018
   • Department for Education
   • Impact assessment

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Transparency and freedom of information releases

1. Further Education Commissioner: annual report 2017 to 2018
   • 20 November 2018
   • Department for Education
   • Corporate report
2. Strategic college improvement fund: successful applicants
   • 6 November 2018
   • Department for Education
   • Transparency
3. List of declared subcontractors
   • 5 November 2018
   • Education and Skills Funding Agency
   • Transparency
4. NEET data by local authority
   • 18 October 2018
   • Department for Education
   • Transparency
5. Participation in education and training: local authority figures
   • 18 October 2018
   • Department for Education
   • Transparency

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Organisations

1. Department for Education
2. Education & Skills Funding Agency
3. Department for Work & Pensions
4. Prime Minister's Office, 10 Downing Street
5. Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy

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1. HM Treasury
2. Cabinet Office
3. Civil Service Fast Track Apprenticeship
4. Foreign & Commonwealth Office
5. Ministry of Defence
6. Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport
7. Ministry of Justice
8. Government Economic Service
9. HM Revenue & Customs
10. Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government
11. Department of Health & Social Care
12. Central Arbitration Committee
13. Department for Transport
14. Race Disparity Unit
15. Civil Service Resourcing
16. Crown Commercial Service
17. Department for International Development
18. Government Equalities Office
19. Office of the Advocate General for Scotland
20. Teaching Regulation Agency
21. UK Atomic Energy Authority
22. UK Export Finance

1. Ofqual
2. Ofsted
3. Nuclear Decommissioning Authority
4. Defence Science and Technology Laboratory
5. Defence Equipment and Support
6. Highways England
7. Innovate UK
8. Sellafield Ltd
9. UK Hydrographic Office

Explore these sub-topics

1. Adult and community learning
2. Apprenticeships, traineeships and internships
3. Careers guidance in further and higher education
4. Education in prisons
5. Further and higher education courses and qualifications
6. Further education financial management and data collection
7. Further education funding
8. Learning Records Service (LRS)
9. Running a further or higher education institution