ESFA Update Issue 392

Latest from the ESFA (former SFA) including: Class of 2018 apprentice graduations; Non levy apprenticeship procured growth requests; Review of apprenticeship funding bands; Final Qualification Achievement Rates (QAR) for 2016 to 2017.

Slides from Lsect’s Ministerial Webinar

Click here for the slides from this week’s Lsect webinar with Skills Minister, Ann Milton and Keith Smith, Director of Funding and Programmes at the ESFA, plus an update from sponsors and SCTP member, NCFE. Unfortunately there isn’t a recording available...

Skills Minister Acknowledges £63M AEB Underspend

In answer to a question from the chair of the Commons treasury sub-committee, who asked what estimate had been “made of the underspend against the AEB in the academic year 2016/17”, Anne Milton confirmed that “The underspend against the mainstream participation...

EPA Assessment Methods – Professional Discussion

We’ll be carrying this series of articles from the Strategic Development Network unpicking the detail of End Point Assessment. The first article gave an overview of EPA and this second article focusses on the use of Professional Discussion as an assessment...

GDPR Session for SCTP Members Coming Very Soon

Big changes to the current Data Protection Act (DPA) 1998 will come into force in May 2018 under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and will have serious implications as to how all businesses, including the FE sector holds and processes personal data. SCTP...