by SCTP | May 18, 2025 | News
The Department for Education has introduced minimum off-the-job training (OTJ) hours for each apprenticeship standard for the first time. Funding rules for 2025-26, stated that OTJ hours-by-standard were necessary due to the shortening of the minimum apprenticeship...
by SCTP | May 18, 2025 | News
Young people who did not pass GCSE English and maths must continue to study the subjects if they take a new foundation apprenticeship – but they will not be required to sit or pass the tests. Apprenticeship funding rules for 2025-26, included a section for foundation...
by SCTP | May 18, 2025 | News
A campaign group demanding a U-turn on the scrapping of enforced English and maths resits for adult apprentices has been launched. The English and Maths Coalition (EMC) claims apprenticeship functional skills exams and the government’s forced GCSE resit policy,...
by SCTP | May 18, 2025 | News
Department for Energy Security and Net Zero has announced an £8 million programme to deliver up to 9,000 training places to enable people to develop skills as installers and retrofit professionals within the retrofit and energy efficiency sector, focused on both...
by SCTP | May 18, 2025 | News
Ofsted’s monitoring reports on commitments made in the Big Listen and its response to Dame Christine Gilbert’s independent learning review are here.
by SCTP | May 18, 2025 | News
The Department for Transport has announced new sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) measures will support aviation expansion and meet decarbonisation goals.
by SCTP | May 18, 2025 | News
The government is proposing reforms to employment, health, and skills support to reduce economic inactivity and help people into work, and the Get Britain Working white paper aims to lower the number of unemployed and achieve an 80% employment rate long term. As part...
by SCTP | May 18, 2025 | News
Residents are being invited to take part in a consultation that will help reshape local government and how services are run in the future. Government wants to reorganise local government so that everyone in East Sussex gets their services from just one council. This...
by SCTP | May 18, 2025 | News
This report sets out the skills needs of the UK quantum sector and makes recommendations on how these needs could be met.
by SCTP | May 18, 2025 | News
Peter Cox Senior HMI at Ofsted has made an offer via local provider networks. Ofsted are looking for providers, post consultation report, to take part in pilot inspections. It is hard to give a timeline as the report is not out yet but it is expected to be summer or...
