by Sarah Sawyer | Jul 2, 2019 | Uncategorised
Ofsted has published a blog on what intent means in the quality of education judgement in the new school inspection handbook. It outlines that intent is about what leaders intend pupils to learn, that intent is everything up to the point at which teaching...
by Sarah Sawyer | Jul 2, 2019 | Uncategorised
The Centres for Excellence in Maths monthly newsletter for June, which aims to provide the further education sector with updates regarding the Centres for Excellence in Maths programme including best practice case studies, dates for the diary and news from the...
by Sarah Sawyer | Jul 1, 2019 | Uncategorised
The ESFA’s monthly e-news for MI managers, software writers and suppliers about FE data systems and reports, the ILR, open data and other data news.
by Sarah Sawyer | Jun 28, 2019 | Uncategorised
Little Gate Farm is a charity supporting young people with autism/learning disabilities in possession of an Education Health Care Plan. They have received a lottery grant of £425,000 to launch a supported apprenticeship and traineeship programme across East Sussex...
by Sarah Sawyer | Jun 28, 2019 | Uncategorised
Following research by Ofsted into the validity and reliability of its inspection methods this week, it has found its model for assessing the quality of lessons does not fit FE providers. As a result, Ofsted said it is working on developing a model that is more suited...
by Sarah Sawyer | Jun 28, 2019 | Uncategorised
Ofsted has published reports looking into reliable and valid methods for inspectors to assess the quality of education using lesson observation and workbook scrutiny.
by Sarah Sawyer | Jun 28, 2019 | Uncategorised
The ESFA has published guidance relating to apprenticeship end-point assessments and changes to their starts policy for new standards being approved. From 1 October 2019 the ESFA will not fund apprentices to start on a new standard until an End-Point Assessment...
by Sarah Sawyer | Jun 28, 2019 | Uncategorised
The ETF publishes a fortnightly T Level bulletin which details the Department for Education’s funded T level professional development offer. The latest edition can be seen here, you can sign up for these updates at the bottom of the bulletin.
by Sarah Sawyer | Jun 28, 2019 | Uncategorised
SCTP has been approached by a number of members who would like to procure/discuss funding partnerships and subcontracting opportunities across a range of funding streams including ESF, apprenticeships and AEB. If you are a prime and have current or future...
by Sarah Sawyer | Jun 28, 2019 | Uncategorised
The ESFA have published their 2019 to 2020 business plan. Part of their key aims of the plan are to strengthen oversight and improve their customer service. More can be read about the plan here.
