by Sarah Sawyer | Jul 31, 2020 | Uncategorised
The Job Retention Bonus was announced by the Chancellor as part of his Plan for Jobs last month. The scheme gives businesses a one-off payment of £1,000 for every previously furloughed employee if they are still employed at the end of January next year. The Treasury...
by Sarah Sawyer | Jul 31, 2020 | Uncategorised
The ESFA has updated the guidance for temporary flexibilities around functional skills qualifications and end-point assessment.
by Sarah Sawyer | Jul 31, 2020 | Uncategorised
The DfE has produced some information to simplify the options available to young people after GCSE and A-Levels which could help aid discussions with students over results day/the summer. Post-16 options and post-18 options pages are available on the National Careers...
by Sarah Sawyer | Jul 30, 2020 | Uncategorised
The ETF is offering FE providers a free six-month subscription to its Enhance Digital Teaching Platform Management Dashboard. The Enhance Digital Teaching Platform has an expanding range of free EdTech training resources that FE provider staff can access anytime,...
by Sarah Sawyer | Jul 30, 2020 | Uncategorised
The DfE has published its latest apprenticeships and traineeships statistics. The data includes apprenticeship service data as of June 2020, and apprenticeship starts to May 2020, with separate June 2020 starts covering the COVID-19 outbreak. This contains figures for...
by Sarah Sawyer | Jul 30, 2020 | Uncategorised
The DfE has published annual statistics on young people’s participation in higher education by student characteristics, including eligibility for free school meals, gender, ethnicity, special educational need status and first language.
