by Jasmine Griffiths | Mar 25, 2024 | Uncategorised
ESFA are planning to give providers a 6 month extension to their current 19 to 24 traineeship contract to cover potential achievement payments. Providers can earn the achievement payment for an eligible traineeship, within 6 months of completing the traineeship when...
by Jasmine Griffiths | Mar 25, 2024 | Uncategorised
ESFA has worked closely with the sector on the Outcome Area field, which will capture the outcomes of Tailored Learning provision from the academic year 2024 to 2025. There will be 11 Outcome Area codes for this field, which can be viewed on Tailored Learning...
by Jasmine Griffiths | Mar 25, 2024 | Uncategorised
The Department for Education (DfE) recently announced the continuation of FE ITE bursaries for the 2024 to 2025 academic year, for skilled non-graduates and graduates who are training pre-service, to teach high-priority shortage subjects in the FE sector in...
by Jasmine Griffiths | Mar 25, 2024 | Uncategorised
On Thursday 21 March ESFA will publish the final QAR data for 2022 to 2023, including provider level data. This will be in the National Achievement Rate Tables on the Explore our statistics and data service. Following a review, ESFA can confirm that the Education and...
by Jasmine Griffiths | Mar 25, 2024 | Uncategorised
ESFA has published the College financial handbook, which comes into effect on Thursday 1 August 2024. It applies to all: further education and sixth form college corporations designated institutions with an accountability agreement with the Secretary of State for...
by Jasmine Griffiths | Mar 24, 2024 | Uncategorised
Latest from ESFA including: Information: Read the new College financial handbook. Information: Access your final qualification achievement rates (QAR) for 2022 to 2023. Information: Further Education initial teacher education (ITE) bursaries programme – available for...
by Jasmine Griffiths | Mar 24, 2024 | Uncategorised
The proportion of apprentices who successfully completed their training and assessment grew marginally to 54.3 per cent last year, new figures reveal. Overall apprenticeship achievement rates on the new-style standards rose by 2.9 percentage points in 2022/23, up from...
by Jasmine Griffiths | Mar 24, 2024 | Uncategorised
Government plans for a new Advanced British Standard qualification will create a “blunt choice” between academic and vocational routes for students and add to uncertainty over post-16 options, leaders have warned. College membership bodies and school leaders’ unions...
by Jasmine Griffiths | Mar 24, 2024 | Uncategorised
An investigation by FE Week reveals that despite a £1,000 increase in funding for adult care apprenticeships, the number of new apprentices has declined, leading to almost 200 training providers discontinuing their delivery of adult care worker apprenticeships since...
by Jasmine Griffiths | Mar 24, 2024 | Uncategorised
Leigh Whitehouse has been appointed as the new Chief Executive of West Sussex County Council. Leigh will be joining from Surrey County Council where he is currently the interim Chief Executive, acting up from his substantive role of Deputy Chief Executive and...
