by SCTP | Jul 20, 2025 | News
The Latest Office for National Statistics data has been released looking at the employment data from March to May 2025. The Top level figures are that the employment rate for people aged 16 to 64 for (Mar – May 2025) is 75.2%, an increase of 0.8% percentage points...
by SCTP | Jul 20, 2025 | News
Inspections will be led by only the ‘most senior’ HMIs when the new framework launches, and there will be no visits in the last week before Christmas. Click here for more from FE Week. In the meantime Ofsted plans FE webinars in response to concerns over...
by SCTP | Jul 20, 2025 | News
The government will temporarily reduce minimum off-the-job training (OTJ) hours for dozens of apprenticeship standards following concerns that the timing to implement new rules was too short. Last month, the Department for Education agreed cuts to OTJ hours for 39...
by SCTP | Jul 20, 2025 | News
The government has set up an advisory panel of young people to help “shape” its policies for keeping them in education, employment or training. Click here for more from FE Week.
by SCTP | Jul 20, 2025 | News
Click here for a FE Week analysis of the Department for Education’s accounts this year and the Education and Skills Funding Agency’s final accounts following its merger with the DfE in March.
