New Guidance on Supporting BME Apprentices

Unionlearn (established by the TUC to help unions open up learning opportunities for their members), has published a new 20-page guide on supporting Black & Minority Ethnic apprentices, both in terms of encouraging more recruitment and ensuring that the...

Apprenticeship Funding Rules Published

As covered in ESFA’s Update below the ESFA has published the Apprenticeship Funding Rules (version 1) for the 2018-19 year. The funding rules are here and we are grateful to AELP for offering an analysis of the main changes for new starts from 1st August...

ESFA FE Update 1 August

Latest update from the ESFA including: 1. Information: Tech Level and Applied General qualifications on 16 to 19 performance tables; 2. Information: updated 2018 to 2019 apprenticeship funding rules;3. Information: 2018 to 2019 apprenticeships performance-management...

IfA Concerns about Conflict of Interest Quality Risk

Conflicts of interest are the “biggest risk” to the effectiveness of external quality assurance, the Institute for Apprenticeships has revealed in newly-published minutes from January and March meetings of its quality assurance committee, which is responsible for...