by Jasmine Griffiths | Jan 13, 2024 | Uncategorised
The DfE recently provided guidance on Advanced learner loans funding rules 2023 to 2024. If you do not have a loan facility you can use the first time request form to request one; you must currently hold an adult education budget or apprenticeship funding...
by Jasmine Griffiths | Jan 13, 2024 | Uncategorised
Projects which aim to create opportunities, reduce inequality, and enhance the quality of life for residents in the city, could benefit from new government funding. Local businesses and community groups are being invited to bid for grants from the new Brighton &...
by Jasmine Griffiths | Jan 13, 2024 | Uncategorised
125 students out of an expected 2,400 enrolled onto the government’s higher education short course trial – raising questions about demand for the flagship lifelong learning entitlement. The figures were revealed recently by HE regulator, the Office for Students as it...
by Jasmine Griffiths | Jan 13, 2024 | Uncategorised
With the opinion polls pointing toward a potential change in government in the upcoming expected general election year, skills policy analyst professor Tom Bewick makes predictions about what the main party manifestos may offer to the FE and skills sector. Click here...
by Jasmine Griffiths | Jan 13, 2024 | Uncategorised
Youth Futures has been awarded £15.35m of Dormant Assets Scheme funding by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) to test and deliver a pioneering programme of intensive, personalised help, including coaching, mentoring and wellbeing support, for young...
by Jasmine Griffiths | Jan 5, 2024 | Uncategorised
The government will launch a £10 million procurement to deliver apprenticeships for civil servants within the Department for Education as early as spring next year, FE Week has learned. According to the DfE’s estimated commercial pipeline for next year, it is looking...
by Jasmine Griffiths | Jan 5, 2024 | Uncategorised
College principals, senior SEND leaders and two WorldSkills UK gold medallists are among the recipients of the 2024 new year honours for services to further education and skills. This year’s honours list includes four CBEs, nine OBEs, eight MBEs and one British Empire...
by Jasmine Griffiths | Jan 5, 2024 | Uncategorised
Congratulations to SCTP member Plumpton College as it has been awarded the highest National Honour in education, a Queen’s Anniversary Prize for its work in wine education and wider impact on the English and Welsh wine sector. Granted every two years by the reigning...
by Jasmine Griffiths | Jan 5, 2024 | Uncategorised
South Essex Colleges Group Institute of technology (SEIoT) has officially opened its doors with a grand opening celebration at Thurrock College. The institute which is part of the South East Institute of Technology (SEIoT) is collaborating with esteemed colleges,...
by Jasmine Griffiths | Jan 5, 2024 | Uncategorised
A new briefing highlights that nine million adults in England lack essential literacy or numeracy skills, emphasising the need for increased and targeted investment. The decline in adults improving these skills by over 60% in the past decade, coupled with a £1 billion...
