Lifelong Learning (Higher Education Fee Limits) Bill: Progress of the Bill

by Jasmine Griffiths | Jul 2, 2023 | Uncategorised

This briefing analyses the parliamentary progress of the Lifelong Learning (Higher Education Fee Limits) Bill. The Bill has passed the Commons and its second reading in the Lords. The Bill would introduce a new ‘credit-based method’ to set tuition fee levels for...

Estimates: Spending of the Department for Education on Post-16 Further Education, Colleges and Adult Education

by Jasmine Griffiths | Jul 2, 2023 | Uncategorised

On Wednesday 5 July there will be an Estimates Day Debate on the spending of the Department for Education on adult education, post-16 education, further education and colleges. The topic for the debate was proposed by the Backbench Business Committee, on applications...

Exceptional Funding Review: Care Apprenticeships Boosted by a Third

by Jasmine Griffiths | Jul 2, 2023 | Uncategorised

Skills Minister Robert Halfon announced at the Association of Employment and Learning Providers’ national conference, that apprenticeships in care and logistics will receive a ‘substantial’ funding boost. Funding for the level 2 adult care worker and...

Parliamentary Education Committee’s Recommendations for Schools and Colleges

by Jasmine Griffiths | Jul 2, 2023 | Uncategorised

A report by the Parliamentary education committee has recommended that ministers should trial the direct funding of careers advisers, as the expectation on schools and colleges to pay for services out of their “already stretched budgets” was “causing significant...

Ofqual and DfE Exploring ‘Feasibility’ of Fully Digital Exams

by Jasmine Griffiths | Jul 2, 2023 | Uncategorised

Ofqual is undertaking a feasibility study alongside the Department for Education on “what it would take” to make GCSEs and A-levels exams “fully digital”. Dr Jo Saxton, Ofqual’s chief regulator said at the House of Lords “It is important to set guardrails so...