Guidance and regulation

Explains how to apply for a free level 3 qualification. These courses could help you improve your wage outcomes and job prospects, and gain skills that employers value.

• From: Department for Education
• Updated: 13 May 2024

Guidance on claiming Universal Credit if you're a student.

• From: Department for Work and Pensions
• Updated: 25 July 2023

The rules employers and training providers must follow to get funding for training and assessing apprentices in England.

• From: Department for Education
• Updated: 15 May 2024

Find out when you have to pay Apprenticeship Levy and how to work out and report your payments.

• From: HM Revenue & Customs
• Updated: 12 September 2023

Find out if you need an Academic Technology Approval Scheme (ATAS) certificate to study in the UK.

• From: Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office and 1 others
• Updated: 14 May 2021

Information for learners and parents about their personal learning record and unique learner number

• From: Education and Skills Funding Agency
• Updated: 29 June 2023

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

• From: Department for Education
• Updated: 29 April 2024

Information on what higher and degree apprenticeships are and a summary of upcoming opportunities for programmes starting in 2022.

• From: Education and Skills Funding Agency
• Updated: 15 November 2022

Eligible further education (FE) teachers can apply for the first round of levelling up premium payments from autumn 2024 until spring 2025.

• From: Department for Education
• Updated: 23 April 2024

Information about licence-linked qualifications, the awarding organisations that offer these qualifications, and how to find an approved training provider.

• From: Security Industry Authority
• Updated: 2 September 2022

Track the status and progress of your student finance application using your online account to make sure your money is ready for starting your course.

• From: Student Loans Company
• Updated: 13 March 2024

Guidance on how to use the apprenticeship service to access funds to pay for apprenticeship training.

• From: Department for Education
• Updated: 13 July 2023

The current and prior qualifications accepted as meeting the minimum English and maths requirements for apprenticeships at level 2 and above.

• From: Department for Education
• Updated: 14 October 2022

How employers and training providers should meet the off-the-job training requirements for an apprenticeship

• From: Education and Skills Funding Agency
• Updated: 19 October 2023

Information for colleges, training organisations and employers about the learning aim reference service, also known as LARS.

• From: Education and Skills Funding Agency
• Updated: 22 May 2023

Sets out the rules that apply to ESFA funded AEB provision for the 2023 to 2024 funding year.

• From: Education and Skills Funding Agency
• Updated: 14 May 2024

Information for institutions on the maths and English condition of funding.

• From: Education and Skills Funding Agency
• Updated: 13 February 2024

Funding guidance for institutions

• From: Education and Skills Funding Agency
• Updated: 8 May 2024

New apprenticeship standards are developed by employer groups known as ‘trailblazers’.

• From: Closed organisation: Institute for Apprenticeships
• Updated: 29 June 2021

Advice for institutions on the financial support young people may be able to access to help them participate in education and training.

• From: Education and Skills Funding Agency
• Updated: 27 April 2023