by SCTP | May 17, 2018 | Uncategorised
Extra payments to providers training the youngest and most disadvantaged apprentices will remain in place from August, the Department for Education has confirmed. The 20-per-cent uplift is for 16- to 18-year-old apprentices on frameworks, with additional cash for...
by SCTP | May 17, 2018 | Uncategorised
Latest from the ESFA (former EFA) including: 1. Information: ESFA e-bulletin subscriptions; 2. Action: summer school census opens today; 3. Reminder: local authorities to submit school financial value standard chief finance officer’s statement by 31 May 2018; 4....
by SCTP | May 17, 2018 | Uncategorised
Care leavers will be boosted by a new £1,000 bursary payment if they choose to do an apprenticeship from August 2018, the Government has announced. The £1,000 bursary will be paid once to each care leaver in the eligible age range, when they start an apprenticeship...
by SCTP | May 17, 2018 | Uncategorised
Providers in some of the most disadvantaged areas of the country will be given an extra £500 per learner for post-16 maths teaching, in a pilot announced today by the ESFA. It will test three different approaches to using the funding, to assess which is most effective...
by SCTP | May 17, 2018 | Uncategorised
Apprenticeship starts were down 40 per cent in February compared to the same period in 2017, the latest provisional government statistics have shown. There were 21,800 starts reported for the month, compared with February 2017’s provisional total of 36,400. Click here...
