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  • Statutory guidance for the development, implementation and review of a Local Skills Improvement Plan (LSIP).

  • Grade descriptors for GCSEs graded 9 to 1. Designed to provide an indication of the likely level of performance at grades 2, 5 and 8. 

  • Ready reckoner to calculate level 3 value-added scores for providers. Transition matrices shows grades in different subjects nationally.

  • Help with planning school finances and resources – tools and advice from the Department for Education (DfE).

  • The standards that inspectorates of British schools overseas refer to when they inspect schools.

  • How schools can buy, install and maintain an automated external defibrillator.

  • Information for service personnel with children in state schools, and for the schools themselves, about eligibility for the service pupil premium (SPP).

  • How initial teacher training providers can train postgraduate teaching apprentices.

  • Steps SMEs can take when bidding for government contracts so they can compete with larger companies.

  • This page provides information about the UK’s 3 main international scholarship programmes funded by the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO).

  • These guidance documents outline how Ofsted uses artificial intelligence (AI) for its own work and set out how we look at AI during inspection and regulation.

  • The list of educational settings eligible to receive grant funding from the National Education Nature Park programme and application criteria.

  • Information on introducing a multi-disciplinary specialist taskforce within an alternative provision school.

  • How we calculate and allocate revenue funding for alternative provision (AP) free schools in the 2025 to 2026 academic year.

  • How headteachers, induction tutors and mentors can support early career teachers (ECTs) during their early career teacher entitlement (ECTE).

  • How eligible providers of full-time online education can apply to join the DfE accreditation scheme.

  • Guidance for suppliers under wave 3 and Jaggaer projects funded by DfE, including who is eligible to learn, how to report data and how it is evaluated.

  • The post-16 budget grant will help institutions with their overall costs in the 2024 to 2025 financial year, following confirmation of the 2024 teacher pay award. 

  • Information for local authorities, schools and colleges about high needs funding arrangements for the 2025 to 2026 financial and academic year.

  • Advice about individualised learner record (ILR) funding returns for institutions funded by Department for Education.