by Jasmine Griffiths | Jan 5, 2024 | Uncategorised
A new briefing highlights that nine million adults in England lack essential literacy or numeracy skills, emphasising the need for increased and targeted investment. The decline in adults improving these skills by over 60% in the past decade, coupled with a £1 billion...
by Jasmine Griffiths | Jan 5, 2024 | Uncategorised
This briefing note from the Institute for Employment Studies, sets out analysis of the Labour Market Statistics published in December. They show that the labour market is continuing to cool off, as the impacts from higher interest rates and rising costs of living...
by Jasmine Griffiths | Jan 5, 2024 | Uncategorised
Sir Martyn Oliver will embark on a Big Listen with all sectors Ofsted inspects and regulates at the start of his tenure as His Majesty’s Chief Inspector of Education, Children’s Services and Skills. The Big Listen, to begin later this term, will allow Sir Martyn to...
by Jasmine Griffiths | Jan 5, 2024 | Uncategorised
Ofsted inspections will not restart next week, new chief inspector Sir Martyn Oliver has said, as he launches an internal inquiry into how the watchdog responded to the death of headteacher Ruth Perry. In a recent interview, Sir Martyn Oliver has promised the sector a...
by Jasmine Griffiths | Jan 5, 2024 | Uncategorised
Sector-based work academy programmes (SWAPs) are designed to help meet employers’ immediate and future recruitment needs as well as to recruit a workforce with the right skills to sustain and grow their business. A SWAP can last up to 6 weeks and has 3 main...
