by Sarah Sawyer | Jan 31, 2020 | Uncategorised
The Department for Education has published the further education and skills statistics and the apprenticeships and traineeships statistics for the first quarter of the 2019/20 academic year (August 2019 to October 2019). The FE statistics reveal that there has been a...
by Sarah Sawyer | Jan 31, 2020 | Uncategorised
Eastbourne Borough Council are launching a new Local Employment and Training Grants Fund for East Sussex based organisations delivering in Eastbourne borough, supporting the construction sector with grants of up to £5000. A launch event on 13 February will provide...
by Sarah Sawyer | Jan 31, 2020 | Uncategorised
The latest edition of the DWP newsletter covering information relating to employment, job seeking and benefits.
by Sarah Sawyer | Jan 31, 2020 | Uncategorised
The ESFA has released further details about upcoming provider roadshows that it is running in March for main providers on the register of apprenticeship training providers (RoATP). The South Central event is being held on Thursday 26 March at Farnborough College of...
by Sarah Sawyer | Jan 31, 2020 | Uncategorised
A Call has been published to run a project aimed at unemployed or inactive residents in South East LEP area, including those aged 15-24, who do not have any way of travelling to/from employment or training. The call is worth £1.5 million of European Social Fund (ESF)...
by Sarah Sawyer | Jan 31, 2020 | Uncategorised
Latest monthly newsletter from the Education & Training Foundation outlining latest news and support programmes for the FE and skills sector. The Centres for Excellence in Maths (CfEM) monthly newsletter for January has also been published, providing updates...
by Sarah Sawyer | Jan 30, 2020 | Uncategorised
The Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education (IfATE) has invited awarding organisations to bid to develop and implement qualifications for eight new T Levels, based on three routes, to be taught from September 2022. The qualifications will be based upon...
by Sarah Sawyer | Jan 30, 2020 | Uncategorised
The ESFA has announced that from 1 August 2020 providers must input the total hours of off-the-job training that has been delivered to apprentices who started new apprenticeships from 1 August 2019 into the ILR. They state that the new actual hours field will need to...
by Sarah Sawyer | Jan 30, 2020 | Uncategorised
The Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) has revealed what skills and training challenges that small and medium-sized businesses say they are faced with, for both owners and employees. Their main challenges are outlined by the themes of chronic skills shortages and...
by Sarah Sawyer | Jan 30, 2020 | Uncategorised
The ESFA has announced details about how providers need to code apprentice records in the ILR when claiming funding when working with employers who are reserving funding through the apprenticeship service. Details are in the ESFA FE Update this week.
