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Draft regulatory conditions, requirements and guidance for awarding organisations offering Alternative Academic and Alternative Technical Qualifications at Level 3.
Explains how qualification achievement rates (QARs) are calculated.
The difference between funding approval and funding validity.
Additional rules and guidance for Technical Qualifications
To analyse variations in qualification levels held by country of birth to establish patterns across UK countries and migrant contribution.
The impact on our approval principles and processes because of ongoing qualification reform.
Principles and processes we use to approve qualifications for funding in England
The stages we use to review qualifications
Find out how to obtain qualified teacher status (QTS) to teach in a maintained school or non-maintained special school in England.
A series of research papers looking at how the standards of GCSE and A level qualifications has changed over time.
Apply for a High Potential Individual (HPI) visa if you've been awarded a qualification by an eligible university in the last 5 years - eligibility, fees, documents, switch, bring your partner and children
Which qualifications are in scope for funding approval, in the relevant approval cycles.
Funding approval criteria that qualifications need to meet for the adult offers alongside the common approval and qualification-type criteria.
Information on the award of qualified teacher status (QTS) by the Department for Education.
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