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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
Student finance - student loans or student grants for tuition fees and living costs, extra help, student loan repayments.
You may be able to borrow money to help pay for university or college…
You can apply for a Tuition Fee Loan and Maintenance Loan if your course…
What you’re eligible for depends on when your course starts. If your…
You may be able to get a loan if your part-time course has a ‘course…
Check on the student finance calculator to see what extra help you might…
Whether you qualify for student finance depends on: your university or…
Find out how to apply for student finance. Parents or partners of students…
Check school performance tables (‘league tables’), Ofsted reports and financial information.
Find your child's school term, half term and holiday dates on your local council's website
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.
Advertise apprenticeships and manage applications using the apprenticeship service.
Apply for a state primary school place through your local council
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.
Check if your child can get free school meals - and find out how to apply on your local authority’s website.
Becoming an apprentice - what to expect, apprenticeship levels, pay and training, making an application, complaining about an apprenticeship.
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.
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.
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
Get a place for your child at a primary or secondary school - applications, deadlines, admission criteria, appeals and complaints.
Get a postgraduate master's loan to help fund a full-time or part-time master's degree: find out if you're eligible and how much you can get.
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