Department for Education (DfE)

Gillian is currently serving as Secretary of State for Education.

The Minister’s responsibilities include:

early years and childcare
children’s social care
teacher quality, recruitment and retention
the school curriculum
school improvement
academies and free schools
further education
apprenticeships and skills
higher education

Department for Education (DfE)

Gillian is currently serving as Secretary of State for Education. The Minister’s responsibilities include: early years and childcare children’s social care teacher quality, recruitment and retention the school curriculum school improvement academies and free schools further education appr

Policy paper: Introduction of T Levels

Find out what T Levels courses include and how they work with other qualifications including grading and UCAS points.

Research: Local skills dashboard

Dashboard showing statistics on local employment and skills in England to support local skills planning and delivery (including local skills

Research: Review of the evidence on numeracy skills interventions for adults

A review of the evidence base for interventions intended to improve numeracy skills among adults with below Level 2 qualifications in mathem

Impact assessment: Lifelong loan entitlement: equality analysis

Analysis of the effect that implementing the lifelong loan entitlement will have on specific protected groups.

Consultation outcome: Lifelong loan entitlement

Seeking views on a lifelong loan entitlement for use on modular or full-time study at higher technical and degree levels, in higher and furt

Press release: Student finance to be radically transformed from 2025

New, more flexible system introduced to empower adults to upskill or retrain throughout their working lives.

Guidance: Join the Latin Excellence Programme

This programme funds and supports non-selective state schools to teach Latin at key stages 3 and 4.

Guidance: Teach in England if you qualified outside the UK

Find out about the visa and immigration routes, qualifications needed and help available for overseas teachers who trained outside the UK.

Guidance: Train to teach in England: non-UK applicants

Find out what you’ll need to train to teach in England, including information about qualifications, visas and immigration, and financial sup

Consultation outcome: Children's social care providers: fees and inspections 2023

We're seeking views on changes to Ofsted fees for children's social care providers and a minimum inspection frequency for secure 16 to 19 ac