by Sarah Sawyer | May 22, 2019 | Uncategorised
City & Guilds have published a research report ‘Sense & Instability 2019’, calling on the government to urgently rethink how skills and education policy in the UK is designed and delivered. They believe that an independent body, a ‘Skills...
by Sarah Sawyer | May 22, 2019 | Uncategorised
The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has published its progress report into the apprenticeship reforms that were introduced in April 2017. The report gives six conclusions and recommendations for the Department for Education (DfE) including assessing whether there are...
by Sarah Sawyer | May 22, 2019 | Uncategorised
The Department for Education (DfE) is advising that Independent Learning Providers who are providing education and training to children of compulsory school age of more than 18 hours a week to 5 or more children, or one or more child with an EHC plan or who is...
by Sarah Sawyer | May 22, 2019 | Uncategorised
EngineeringUK has released a new free guide ‘Getting the message across’ to help STEM professionals and ambassadors to deliver exciting and varied activities to help encourage young people to consider engineering as a career choice.
by Sarah Sawyer | May 22, 2019 | Uncategorised
A YouGov survey, commissioned by Pearson Business School, has found that the majority of UK businesses are unaware of recent changes intended to improve the apprenticeship levy and suggests that much more needs to be done to engage with businesses to communicate these...
by Sarah Sawyer | May 22, 2019 | Uncategorised
The Education Secretary, Damian Hinds, has unveiled new measures to support employers to offer T Level industry placements. The T Levels Industry placements policy update is new guidance published to support employers and providers to offer tailored placements that...
by Sarah Sawyer | May 22, 2019 | Uncategorised
The ESFA has published new guidance on the Industry Placement Capacity and Delivery Fund (CDF) for 2019/20. The CDF was introduced last year to ensure high quality industry placements can be delivered before T Levels are introduced in 2020, which industry placements...
by Sarah Sawyer | May 22, 2019 | Uncategorised
The Education Secretary, Damian Hinds, has announced the expansion of the Careers Hub initiative. 18 new and two expanded Careers Hubs areas have been announced, with a further £2.5 m investment. Careers Hubs are designed to bring together schools and colleges with...
by Sarah Sawyer | May 22, 2019 | Uncategorised
The ESFA have announced that Charlotte Briscall has been appointed as their new Director of Customer Experience, Digital and Data. They said that she will lead a large technology transformation project to ensure customers find the ESFA easy to interact with, and...
by Sarah Sawyer | May 22, 2019 | Uncategorised
Latest information from the ESFA: 1. Action: the new way to submit ILR, EAS and ESF round 1; 2. Information: Independent Learning Providers (ILPs) delivering education to compulsory school age students; 3. Information: new package of support announced to support...
