by Sarah Sawyer | Jun 28, 2019 | Uncategorised
SCTP has been approached by an employer who is seeking information about level 3 Accounting Apprenticeships or level 3 fully funded AAT or similar financial sector training. If you are able to support please email vanessapotter@sctp.org.uk.
by Sarah Sawyer | Jun 28, 2019 | Uncategorised
Damian Hinds, appearing before the Education Select Committee, has said that the government’s target of 3 million apprenticeship starts by 2020 will not be reached. He said that the focus should be on the quality of apprenticeships. The accountability hearing,...
by Sarah Sawyer | Jun 28, 2019 | Uncategorised
The ESFA has circulated a warning of cyber-attacks which are being targeted at education providers. The attack uses email to target users and has resulted in financial losses for some. More details and some guidelines to prevent it happening are in the ESFA FE...
by Sarah Sawyer | Jun 28, 2019 | Uncategorised
Employers who pay the apprenticeship levy have 24 months to spend their levy funds. May was the first month of expiry of funds from employers unspent levy accounts and the government has revealed that employers have lost access to £11 million of their levy funds,...
by Sarah Sawyer | Jun 28, 2019 | Uncategorised
The Education and Training Foundation (ETF) has published a new toolkit for apprenticeship standards, looking at what is outstanding teaching, learning and assessment for standards. The toolkit shares emerging practice, case studies and tools and is available on the...
by Sarah Sawyer | Jun 28, 2019 | Uncategorised
The Employer Skills Survey 2019 will interview approximately 82,000 employers across all sectors and sizes in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. The survey collects information on apprenticeships, T-Levels, vacancies, recruitment, training, skill shortages, and...
by Sarah Sawyer | Jun 28, 2019 | Uncategorised
Recognising that during the transition to standards, some apprentices may be unable to complete their standard when it was initially recorded on the ILR, the ESFA have outlined details of a new transparency table being published in March 2020. The official...
by Sarah Sawyer | Jun 28, 2019 | Uncategorised
The Register of Apprenticeship Training Providers (RoATP) has been updated with the first new organisations to be added since its refresh. 23 new organisations have been added, all of whom are listed as supporting providers. More details and a list of the newly added...
by Sarah Sawyer | Jun 28, 2019 | Uncategorised
The Department for Education has published the data showing national participation in education, training and employment for 16 to 18 year olds to the end of 2018. It contains information from schools, FE, apprenticeships and higher education.
by Sarah Sawyer | Jun 28, 2019 | Uncategorised
Damian Hinds, addressed the NSPCC conference about online safety. His speech can be read here.
