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Your student finance online account - check payment dates, track an application, change details, reset password, find customer reference numbers
Register your profile, search vacancies and apply for an apprenticeship - you must be 16 or over
School closures happen because of an emergency like severe weather - check whether your child's school is closed on your local council website.
Student finance - student loans or student grants for tuition fees and living costs, extra help, student loan repayments.
Contact details for Student Finance England - including complaints and student finance appeals, Advanced Learner Loan.
When you start repaying your student loan, your monthly repayments, what to do if you have 2 jobs or are self-employed, how to get a refund if you've overpaid.
Apply for a state primary school place through your local council
Find your child's school term, half term and holiday dates on your local council's website
Advertise apprenticeships and manage applications using the apprenticeship service.
Check school performance tables (‘league tables’), Ofsted reports and financial information.
Student finance calculator - get a quick estimate of what student loans, grants, bursaries and other funding you could get - for full-time, part-time and EU students
Apply online for student finance - online applications for student finance including Tuition Fee Loans, Maintenance Loans and Grants.
Becoming an apprentice - what to expect, apprenticeship levels, pay and training, making an application, complaining about an apprenticeship.
Check if your child can get free school meals - and find out how to apply on your local authority’s website.
Disabled Students' Allowance is extra money for higher education students - DSA1 forms, eligibility, how to apply, needs assessment.
Find out about a qualification, including if it’s regulated and how it compares to other qualifications.
Get a place for your child at a primary or secondary school - applications, deadlines, admission criteria, appeals and complaints.
The English national curriculum means children in different schools (at primary and secondary level) study the same subjects to similar standards - it's split into key stages with tests
Request a replacement exam certificate or a certified statement of results if you've lost your original - check the list of old exam boards if your board no longer exists
Educating your child at home ('home schooling'): when to get permission, telling the school, curriculum, SEN.
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