by Sarah Sawyer | Apr 30, 2020 | Uncategorised
The DfE has extended the deadline for submitting applications to the Provider Relief Scheme until midnight on Sunday 3 May 2020.
by Sarah Sawyer | Apr 30, 2020 | Uncategorised
The DfE has published the Further Education Skills Index for April 2020. The Skills Index shows how the aggregate value of the skills supplied by the FE system each year has changed over time. The index works by taking an estimate of the ‘value-added’ for all adult...
by Sarah Sawyer | Apr 30, 2020 | Uncategorised
The Education and Training Foundation (ETF) has developed a series of free, online webinars and a guide to help colleagues across the FE and training sector working remotely to support students based at home. The Guide identifies and provides links to EdTech and...
by Sarah Sawyer | Apr 30, 2020 | Uncategorised
The Sussex Learning Network (SLN) has launched two new Emergency Learning at Home Funds. The Emergency Learning at Home Educational Provider Fund, is aimed at schools, sixth form colleges, FE training providers and universities, and aims to provide emergency...
by Sarah Sawyer | Apr 30, 2020 | Uncategorised
The latest Ofsted guidance and information relating to coronavirus for schools, early years, children’s social care and further education and skills providers has been updated. Following recent news that Ofsted will not be publishing recent inspection reports until...
by Sarah Sawyer | Apr 30, 2020 | Uncategorised
The Office for National Statistics has published ‘Coronavirus and the social impacts on Great Britain’. The survey aims to understand the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on people, households and communities in Great Britain. It shows that levels of...
by Sarah Sawyer | Apr 30, 2020 | Uncategorised
The Office for National Statistics has published ‘Coronavirus, the UK economy and society, faster indicators’. This is new data and experimental indicators on the UK economy and society, including information related to the coronavirus. Indicators are...
by Sarah Sawyer | Apr 30, 2020 | Uncategorised
SCTP is working with Skills East Sussex, the county’s strategic body for employment and skills, to look at the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the employment and skills infrastructure. We would be grateful if you could complete a short survey on the effects...
by Sarah Sawyer | Apr 30, 2020 | Uncategorised
The DfE announced on 28 April that it had decided to cancel all in year further education and apprenticeship releases and will publish the end of year releases normally in November. Concerns were raised about this announcement to stop publishing the monthly start...
by Sarah Sawyer | Apr 30, 2020 | Uncategorised
A survey carried out by FE Week with 304 apprenticeship providers, revealed that they had between them planned 13,732 starts in April but only achieved 2693, missing their pre-coronavirus expectations by 80%. More on this, including comments from a few of these...
