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About Education, training and skills
and Further and higher education, skills and vocational training
From Department for Education (DfE)
Updated After 16 December 2018
  • Qualifications accepted as meeting the minimum English and maths requirements for apprenticeships.

  • An overview of 16 to 19 education funding and how we calculate.

  • How education settings should prepare for and respond to terrorism and other major incidents.

  • Functional Skills subject content for Entry Levels 1 to 3 and Levels 1 and 2.

  • Rules and guidance for using 16 to 19 formula funding allocated by ESFA.

  • Information about how we allocate 16 to 19 funding to institutions.

  • Information about employing an apprentice and how apprenticeship funding works.

  • What citizens of the EU, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway and Switzerland studying, or planning to study in the UK should consider.

  • Training provider agreement with the Department for Education (DfE) to pay training providers to carry out apprenticeship training.

  • Guidance about accessing the LRS organisational portal and latest releases. Includes the monthly headline report for national learners aged 14+.

  • Information for further education and sixth-form colleges directly enrolling 14- to 16-year-olds for the 2025 to 2026 academic year.

  • Find out how to become an educational psychologist and how to get funding for our educational psychology training scheme.

  • Registration documents for learner registration bodies (LRB) and awarding organisations to gain access to the learning records service (LRS) portal and services.

  • Guidance to help providers and employers deliver high-quality industry placements

  • Apply to become a Wave 2 Technical Excellence College in Defence, Clean Energy, Digital and Technologies or Advanced Manufacturing.

  • The funding rates and formula used to calculate the education and skills funding arrangements for 16 to 19 year olds.

  • Guides for learning providers, local authorities and awarding organisations on how to use the learning records service and manage event data challenges.

  • How the government funds apprenticeships in England, including details of funding bands and the apprenticeship levy.

  • Guidance on DfE's post-16 funding assurance process for further education and new apprenticeship providers.

  • Information for large employers about transferring unused apprenticeship levy funds to another business to pay for their apprenticeship training and assessment.