by SCTP | Oct 3, 2025 | News
The DfE has published the first time request form for obtaining an advanced learner loans contract. Completed request forms must be sent to them through the customer help portal before 5pm on Wednesday 15 October 2025. Click here for more.
by SCTP | Oct 3, 2025 | News
Latest information from the DfE including: 1.2025 to 2026 advanced learner loans performance management point 1; 2. Change to the 16 to 19 funded large programme uplift for academic year 2026 to 2027; 3. Further education workforce data collection is now open; 4....
by SCTP | Sep 29, 2025 | News
The Department for Work and Pensions is looking to create a Panel to support, advise and connect the department to the wider disability community. Click here for more information including details of the application process.
by SCTP | Sep 27, 2025 | News
New guidance from the Education Endowment Foundation (EEF) will support the 16 – 19 sector deliver high-quality continuous professional development (PD) for teachers – driving stronger teaching practice and better outcomes for learners.
by SCTP | Sep 27, 2025 | News
When the Education Select Committee published its report Solving the SEND Crisis (18/09/25), it gave national prominence to challenges long recognised within further education (FE) and skills. For years, practitioners have voiced concern that too many young people...
by SCTP | Sep 27, 2025 | News
New research published by DfE provides the most detailed analysis to date of the pathways taken by young people who don’t go straight to university after finishing school or college. The groundbreaking study, which tracked over 3,600 young people through detailed...
by SCTP | Sep 27, 2025 | News
The Education Committee has laid out a blueprint for how the Government should spread prosperity and achieve its mission of economic growth by investing in the further education (FE) and skills sector. The cross-party Committee’s new report concludes that the sector...
by SCTP | Sep 27, 2025 | News
HM Inspectorate of Prisons has published its report providing an analysis of 12–18-year-olds’ perceptions of their experiences in secure training centres and young offender institutions. This found that although the number of children held in in the featured...
by SCTP | Sep 27, 2025 | News
One of Ofsted’s most senior officials speaks about FE’s new inspection regime, a month before it comes into force. Click here for this article from FE Week.
by SCTP | Sep 27, 2025 | News
This Treasury press release states that Rachel Reeves has fired the starting gun on the government’s landmark Regional Investment Summit, pledging that “no region will be locked out of investment”.
