by Sarah Sawyer | Sep 18, 2020 | Uncategorised
EDSK, an independent ‘think tank’, has published a report, funded by the Further Education Trust for Leadership (FETL), outlining a package of reforms to create a new role, purpose and direction for the FE sector. One of the recommendations of the report...
by Sarah Sawyer | Sep 18, 2020 | Uncategorised
The Institute for Employment Studies has published a briefing note estimating the impact on redundancies of COVID-19. It uses newly released data from employers planning 20 or more redundancies alongside historic estimates of actual redundancies, in order to estimate...
by Sarah Sawyer | Sep 18, 2020 | Uncategorised
West Sussex County Council’s Cabinet has met to discuss the county’s response to COVID-19. An ‘economy reset plan’ is in development to supersede the county council’s existing Economic Growth Plan. It proposes nine priority themes to help mitigate the...
by Sarah Sawyer | Sep 18, 2020 | Uncategorised
PWC has published research assessing the impact on the UK economy of office workers continuing to work from home, versus if they were to return to their pre-COVID-19 offices for their regular working hours. One of their key findings is that if those workers continue...
by Sarah Sawyer | Sep 18, 2020 | Uncategorised
This article discusses recent analysis which identifies a slight narrowing of the attainment gap at GCSE grade 4 or above by disadvantaged students. The attainment gap however remains very large at 22 percentage points, but the comparable figures last year show a gap...
by Sarah Sawyer | Sep 18, 2020 | Uncategorised
Get Career Confident, Sussex Learning Network, East Sussex and Coast to Capital Careers Hubs, working with Elev8Careers and Learn Live, are running a large-scale Sussex-wide virtual post-16 pathways event called What Next Sussex. The event provides a platform for all...
