by Sarah Sawyer | May 17, 2019 | Uncategorised
The ESFA has published new guidance on how funding for traineeships works. They have also published a 19 to 24 traineeships over-delivery calculator that can be used to work out how much traineeship delivery they will fund in the 2018/19 funding year, if you deliver...
by Sarah Sawyer | May 17, 2019 | Uncategorised
The Institute of Apprenticeships and Technical Education (IfATE) has published a blog which outlines how they intend to make their funding process clearer. They state that they will be evaluating the impact of the current funding reviews which they are undertaking,...
by Sarah Sawyer | May 15, 2019 | Uncategorised
Latest update from the ESFA: 1. Reminder: successful condition improvement fund (CIF) 2019 to 2020 applicants must complete returns by Friday 17 May 2019; 2. Information: update to 16 to 19 study guidance for providers; 3. Information: updated 2018 to 2019...
by Sarah Sawyer | May 15, 2019 | Uncategorised
The deadline for entries to the National Apprenticeship Awards 2019 is 24 May. All the information that applicants need can be found on the awards website appawards.co.uk.
by Sarah Sawyer | May 15, 2019 | Uncategorised
The Department for Education has announced that the contract to support the phased implementation of the T Level transition offer running up to first delivery in 2020 and 2021 has been awarded to the Association of Colleges (AoC). Further details are in this...
by Sarah Sawyer | May 14, 2019 | Uncategorised
Latest course newsletter from the Education & Training Foundation highlighting the courses and resources they offer to support the FE & skills sector. This edition highlights Mental Health Awareness Week and some resources which may help support staff in the...
by Sarah Sawyer | May 13, 2019 | Uncategorised
The next SCTP members’ conference is on Thursday 23 May at Crawley College from 09.30-13.00. We have a interesting agenda lined up for you with an update from the South East LEP, followed by Dr Richard Beynon from Ofsted talking about the new inspection framework, and...
by Sarah Sawyer | May 13, 2019 | Uncategorised
The ETF has recently run some launch events across the country to provid information about the T Level Professional Development offer for the recently announced Teacher Regional Improvement Projects (TRIPs). For interested parties who were unable to attend a launch,...
by Sarah Sawyer | May 13, 2019 | Uncategorised
The Department for Work and Pensions has announced measures to help people better themselves in work, moving to higher paid, higher skilled roles. They have announced some new projects for jobcentres and a change in the length of the maximum single sanction any...
by Sarah Sawyer | May 13, 2019 | Uncategorised
This opinion piece looks at the recent publication of the FE Skills Index, arguing that the index is too high-level to make it useful to use it to make any targeted policy decisions either now or in future.
