ESFA Update: 23 March 2022

Latest information from the ESFA including: 1. Information: initial funded qualification offers for 2022 to 2023; 2. Information: Advanced Learner Loans (ALL) funding rules for 2022 to 2023; 3. Information: maximum loan amounts for Advanced Learner Loans 2022 to 2023;...

Review of Reading Education in Prisons Published

Following concerns about the poor state of prison education, Ofsted and HMIP decided to find out how prisoners are helped to improve their reading skills. Specifically, they sought to understand how prisoners’ reading is assessed, what provision is in place and how...

New Lifelong Learning Evaluation Report Published

This report published this week by the Centre for the Development of Vocational Training (Cedefop) looks into individual support to careers and learning to shed light on the efficacy of current upskilling, reskilling and activation measures.

Key News from the Annual Apprenticeship Conference

a number of key messages have emerged for the this week’s Annual Apprenticeship Conference (AAC) which we have summarised below: DFE’s Director of Apprenticeships has said that both the revised apprenticeship achievement rates for 2019/20 and the new rates...

ESFA Update 16th March

Latest information from the ESFA including: 1. Reminder: application deadline for the incentive payment for hiring a new apprentice; 2. Information: third cycle for higher technical qualifications announced; 3. Information: teachers’ pay grant (TPG) and teachers’...

Campaign for Learning: Articles on Levelling Up

Click here for an interesting series of articles from the Campaign for Learning looking at the levelling up agenda in Higher Technical Education, Higher & Degree Apprenticeships, Post-16 Education and Skills, Lifelong Training & Learning and the role of...