Education, training and skills

Schools and academies, further and higher education, apprenticeships and other skills training, student funding, early years.

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Services

• Student finance login

  Your student finance online account - check payment dates, track an application, change details, reset password, find customer reference numbers

• Find an apprenticeship

  Register your profile, search vacancies and apply for an apprenticeship - you must be 16 or over

• Student finance for undergraduates

  Student finance - student loans or student grants for tuition fees and living costs, extra help, student loan repayments.

• Contact Student Finance England

  Contact details for Student Finance England - including complaints and student finance appeals, Advanced Learner Loan.

• Apply online for student finance

  Apply online for student finance - online applications for student finance including Tuition Fee Loans, Maintenance Loans and Grants.

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Guidance and regulation

• Early years foundation stage (EYFS) statutory framework
  • Statutory guidance
  • 1 November 2024
  • Department for Education
• Complete the PE and sport premium expenditure reporting return
  • Detailed guide
  • 11 June 2025
  • Department for Education
• Keeping children safe in education
  • Statutory guidance
  • 3 September 2024
  • Department for Education
• Student Finance England (SFE): Current application timescales
  • Detailed guide
  • 30 June 2025
  • Student Loans Company
• Phonics screening check: 2025 materials
  • Guidance
  • 23 June 2025
  • Standards and Testing Agency

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News and communications

• Sellafield supporting Whitehaven Science Fair
  • 30 June 2025
  • Sellafield Ltd and Nuclear Waste Services
  • News story
• Message to school and college leaders: understanding GCSE, AS and A level grading
  • 30 June 2025
  • Ofqual
  • Correspondence
• Thousands of children with SEND to benefit from assistive tech
  • 27 June 2025
  • Department for Education
  • Press release
• AI in education: how schools and further education colleges are making it work
  • 27 June 2025
  • Ofsted
  • Press release
• Teacher misconduct panel outcome: Miss Claire Herbert
  • 26 June 2025
  • Teaching Regulation Agency
  • Decision

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Research and statistics

• Early years SENCO training programme: evaluation
  • 27 June 2025
  • Department for Education
  • Research
• AI in schools and further education: findings from early adopters
  • 27 June 2025
  • Ofsted
  • Research
• Working lives of teachers and leaders: wave 3
  • 26 June 2025
  • Department for Education
  • Research
• Working lives of teachers and leaders wave 3: workload report
  • 26 June 2025
  • Department for Education
  • Research
• Early years initial teacher training programme evaluation
  • 26 June 2025
  • Department for Education
  • Research

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Policy papers and consultations

• Regulatory framework for apprenticeship assessment
  • 20 June 2025
  • Ofqual
  • Open consultation
  • Closing date 27 August 2025
• Improving the way Ofsted inspects education
  • 11 June 2025
  • Ofsted
  • Closed consultation
  • Date closed 28 April 2025
• The future of the Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Act 2023
  • 26 June 2025
  • Department for Education
  • Policy paper
• International qualified teacher status (iQTS)
  • 23 June 2025
  • Department for Education
  • Policy paper
• International qualified teacher status (iQTS): inspection policy
  • 12 June 2025
  • Department for Education
  • Policy paper

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Transparency and freedom of information releases

• Independent schools: warning notices and enforcement letters
  • 1 July 2025
  • Department for Education
  • Transparency
• Condition improvement fund: 2019 to 2020 outcome
  • 1 July 2025
  • Department for Education
  • Transparency
• Condition improvement fund: 2018 to 2019 outcome
  • 1 July 2025
  • Department for Education
  • Transparency
• Condition improvement fund: 2017 to 2018 outcome
  • 1 July 2025
  • Department for Education
  • Transparency
• Condition improvement fund: 2016 to 2017 outcome
  • 1 July 2025
  • Department for Education
  • Transparency

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Organisations

• Department for Education
• Office of the Schools Adjudicator
• Teaching Regulation Agency
• Standards & Testing Agency
• Department of Health & Social Care

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• Regional Department for Education (DfE) Directors
• Department for Work & Pensions
• Prime Minister's Office 10 Downing Street
• School Teachers' Review Body
• Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office
• HM Treasury
• Ministry of Defence
• Department for Science, Innovation & Technology
• Cabinet Office
• Department for Business & Trade
• Ministry of Justice
• Department for Transport
• Department for Culture, Media & Sport
• Office for the Pay Review Bodies
• Further Education Commissioner
• Commonwealth Scholarship Commission in the UK
• Government Skills
• Skills England
• Government Legal Department
• HM Revenue & Customs
• Government Economic Service
• Government Actuary's Department
• Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government
• Department for Energy Security & Net Zero
• Home Office
• Office for Health Improvement & Disparities
• UK Atomic Energy Authority
• Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
• HM Courts & Tribunals Service
• Leadership College for Government
• Central Arbitration Committee
• Child Safeguarding Practice Review Panel
• Civil Service
• Government Social Research Profession
• Government Digital Service
• Government Property Agency
• HM Prison & Probation Service
• Medicines & Healthcare products Regulatory Agency
• Northern Ireland Office
• Attorney General's Office
• Government Legal Profession
• Crown Commercial Service
• Government Analysis Function
• Government Finance Function
• Government Office for Science
• UK Health Security Agency
• Animal & Plant Health Agency
• Border Force
• Companies House
• Driver & Vehicle Standards Agency
• Gov Facility Services Limited
• Government Internal Audit Agency
• Government Office for Technology Transfer
• Groceries Code Adjudicator
• Homes England
• Immigration Enforcement
• The Insolvency Service
• Intellectual Property Office
• Marine Management Organisation
• Maritime & Coastguard Agency
• Office for Product Safety & Standards
• Office of the Advocate General for Scotland
• Rural Payments Agency
• Scotland Office
• Office of the Leader of the House of Commons
• UK Visas and Immigration

• Ofqual
• Ofsted
• Student Loans Company
• Sellafield Ltd
• Nuclear Decommissioning Authority
• UK Space Agency
• Defence Science and Technology Laboratory
• Nuclear Waste Services
• High Speed Two (HS2) Limited
• Security Industry Authority
• Environment Agency
• Nuclear Restoration Services
• UK Hydrographic Office
• The Charity Commission
• Defence Equipment and Support
• Competition and Markets Authority
• Government Chemist
• UK Council for Internet Safety
• Natural England
• Council for Science and Technology
• Low Pay Commission
• Office of the Regulator of Community Interest Companies
• Social Security Advisory Committee
• Strategic Command
• Employment Agency Standards Inspectorate
• Forestry Commission
• Industrial Strategy Advisory Council
• National Cyber Force
• Public Sector Fraud Authority
• Youth Custody Service
• Youth Justice Board for England and Wales

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• Education of disadvantaged children
• Funding and finance for students
• Further and higher education, skills and vocational training
• Inspections and performance of education providers
• Pupil wellbeing, behaviour and attendance
• Running and managing a school
• School and academy financial management and assurance
• School and academy funding
• School curriculum
• Special educational needs and disability (SEND) and high needs
• Starting and attending school
• Teaching and leadership