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Approved key stage 4 qualifications (GCSEs, Technical Awards, AS levels and graded music exams), discount codes and point scores for reporting in the 2014 to 2027 school and college performance tables.
Generic design brief and technical annexes.
Description of the national professional qualifications (NPQs) available to teachers and school leaders for providers to use when designing their courses.
Information for further education and sixth-form colleges directly enrolling 14- to 16-year-olds for the 2025 to 2026 academic year.
How the government funds apprenticeships in England, including details of funding bands and the apprenticeship levy.
Information about the mandatory qualifications special educational needs co-ordinators (SENCOs) must gain within 3 years of taking up their post.
A course to help teachers and school leaders develop leadership knowledge and expertise to improve outcomes for teachers and pupils in their school.
Who you can share personal data with and what consent you need to get – for example, when publishing exam results, taking photos in school and for immunisation programmes.
Information about employing an apprentice and how apprenticeship funding works.
Guidance on 16 to 19 education and skills funding rules for the current and previous funding years.
Statutory guidance on the principles behind children’s social care, its purpose, factors enabling good practice and what it should achieve.
A framework to support trainee teacher development, designed with an expert advisory group.
Information for local authorities, schools and colleges about high needs funding arrangements for the 2025 to 2026 financial and academic year.
Functional Skills subject content for Entry Levels 1 to 3 and Levels 1 and 2.
This section provides information on expenditure for schools.
Advice for schools and responsible bodies to help manage their school buildings and land.
Safeguarding guidance, e-learning and resources for providers of after-school clubs, activities and tuition, and other out-of-school settings.
Guidance for local authorities, schools and colleges on the core schools budget grant (CSBG) for 2025 to 2026. CSBG allocations and conditions of grant are also published here.
What citizens of the EU, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway and Switzerland studying, or planning to study in the UK should consider.
Guidance about every piece of information you need to send us in autumn 2024, and spring and summer 2025.
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