by Jasmine Griffiths | Nov 5, 2023 | Uncategorised
Latest from ESFA including: 1. Reminder: high needs place change process 2024 to 2025: deadline 10 November 2023. 2. Reminder: 2022 to 2023 final reconciliation statements. 3. Information: ESFA Adult Skills Fund – new arrangements for 2024 to 2025. 4....
by Jasmine Griffiths | Nov 5, 2023 | Uncategorised
Top Education and Skills Funding Agency officials have suggested they are not concerned about the financial health of the independent training provider sector, despite several high-profile closures and market exits. Senior agency directors told the Association of...
by Jasmine Griffiths | Nov 5, 2023 | Uncategorised
Fraud and error in further education are getting “worse”, according to the ESFA’s director of finance, who has revealed there was £50 million worth of clawback last year. Andrew Thomas, who heads the agency’s provider market oversight division, said clamping...
by Jasmine Griffiths | Nov 5, 2023 | Uncategorised
The government has paused starts on 18 of the 78 apprenticeships that have no approved end-point assessment organisation. Banners have been placed on the Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education’s web page for each standard the new rule applies to, which...
by Jasmine Griffiths | Nov 5, 2023 | Uncategorised
Apprenticeship starts have fallen by 31% in England since the apprenticeship levy was introduced, according to the CIPD. The study also found that employer training has also continued to decline more widely and as 60% of UK employers undertook some training over the...
