Off-The-Job Training ILR Field Change

The ESFA has announced that from 1 August 2020 providers must input the total hours of off-the-job training that has been delivered to apprentices who started new apprenticeships from 1 August 2019 into the ILR. They state that the new actual hours field will need to...

FSB Outlines Skills Challenges Faced by SMEs

The Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) has revealed what skills and training challenges that small and medium-sized businesses say they are faced with, for both owners and employees. Their main challenges are outlined by the themes of chronic skills shortages and...

ESFA FE Update: 29 January 2020

Latest information from the ESFA: 1. Action: qualification achievement rates (QAR) 2018 to 2019 – provisional data now live; 2. Reminder: R06 individualised learner record (ILR) data return closes Thursday 6 February 2020; 3. Information: mid-year funding claims for...