CITB to End Direct Training Delivery

SCTP member, the Construction Industry Training Board launched its new ‘levy in, skills out’ Business Plan for the next three years which will see it reduce staff and sites as it exits direct delivery of training and refocuses on streamlining services and enhancing...

OECD Report on Jobs & Skills Impact of Automation

After gathering evidence from the UK and 31 OECD countries, a working paper titled ‘Automation, Skills Use & Training’ was produced looking at the jobs most at risk (service sector) from the use of robotics and those most resilient (those that require...

Three Apprenticeship Reports Published

The Reform think tank published its assessment of the apprenticeship levy and associate training one year on from its introduction concluding that greater clarification of what constituted an apprenticeship, as well as a simpler system of funding and the scrapping of...

Results of Ofqual’s Functional Skills Consultation

Ofqual carried out a Functional Skills Qualifications (FSQs) Policy Consultation, which ran from 27 September – 22 November 2017. Ofqual has now considered the responses received and published the decisions taken which can be seen in this ETF communication here....