by Sarah Sawyer | Oct 11, 2019 | Uncategorised
The Social Mobility Foundation has published a list of the top 75 UK employers in 2019 who have taken the most action on social mobility in the workplace. The Social Mobility Foundation has ranked the employers on the actions they are taking to ensure they are open to...
by Sarah Sawyer | Oct 11, 2019 | Uncategorised
Instructure have published a Skills Study report looking at the skills employers are looking for and how well equipped schools are to support their students in gaining these skills. Their top recommendations can be seen here.
by Sarah Sawyer | Oct 11, 2019 | Uncategorised
The Government has published its first State of the Nation report on children’s mental wellbeing, on World Mental Health Day (10 October). The report collated responses from around 7000 young people from age 10-24. Also, on World Mental Health Day, the British...
by Sarah Sawyer | Oct 11, 2019 | Uncategorised
The South East Local Enterprise Partnership (SELEP) has launched another round of the Growing Places Fund (GPF) recyclable loan scheme. All of the information, including the Expression of Interest form, can be found here. Potential applicants need to register their...
by Sarah Sawyer | Oct 11, 2019 | Uncategorised
The Office for Students (OfS) has launched a competition inviting universities and other higher education providers to develop and implement postgraduate conversion courses to boost the number of skilled graduates in artificial intelligence and data science...
by Sarah Sawyer | Oct 11, 2019 | Uncategorised
The Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy has published the annual business population estimates for the UK and regions in 2019.
by Sarah Sawyer | Oct 11, 2019 | Uncategorised
Sally Collier, Chief Regulator of Ofqual, gave a speech to the Federation of Awarding Bodies conference, on the role of Ofqual in maintaining public confidence in qualifications. You can read the transcript of her speech here, and more about her speech at the...
by Sarah Sawyer | Oct 11, 2019 | Uncategorised
Ofqual has published updated statistics on vocational and other qualifications (excluding GCSEs, AS levels and A levels) from April to June 2019. The main trends in the statistics are also available on the linked page.
by Sarah Sawyer | Oct 11, 2019 | Uncategorised
The DfE has published the latest apprenticeships statistics covering apprenticeship starts, apprenticeship service registrations and commitments. It shows there have been 389,200 apprenticeship starts reported to date between August 2018 and July 2019 for the 2018/19...
by Sarah Sawyer | Oct 11, 2019 | Uncategorised
The Coast to Capital LEP has released an ESF call of £2million to run a project to address the digital needs of local businesses and their workforce. The full application deadline is 2 January 2020.
