by Sarah Sawyer | Apr 26, 2019 | Uncategorised
The Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) has published a report entitled ‘Fit for the Future: Making the Apprenticeship System Work for Small Businesses’ looking at the impact of the apprenticeship reforms on small businesses across England. The report...
by Sarah Sawyer | Apr 26, 2019 | Uncategorised
The National Apprenticeship Awards 2019 will be open for entries from 30 April – 24 May. Applications can be made through the website appawards.co.uk which will go live on Tuesday 30 April. Guidance documents are available to help plan applications for each category,...
by Sarah Sawyer | Apr 26, 2019 | Uncategorised
The Association of Colleges is managing a project called ‘The 5Rs – a revision year approach to GCSE Maths resits’, which aims to support students re-sitting their GCSEs to improve their attainment. The programme content is built on the 40 most common topics in...
by Sarah Sawyer | Apr 26, 2019 | Uncategorised
The ESFA have announced that they have reviewed providers’ delivery as at the R08 data collection and will issue variations for over-delivery to date by the end of April 2019. They will revisit 2018-2019 financial year over-delivery again in August 2019 and November...
by Sarah Sawyer | Apr 26, 2019 | Uncategorised
The Education and Training Foundation (ETF) has announced the launch of three regional Knowledge Hubs as part of their T Level Professional Development offer. This offer will help to ensure that FE providers in the first two tranches are T Level ready, as well as...
by Sarah Sawyer | Apr 26, 2019 | Uncategorised
A reminder from the ESFA that if you need to submit a business case for your 16-19 funding allocation, the deadline is Tuesday 30 April. They have stated that you should only submit a business case where you believe there is a significant error in the data you have...
by Sarah Sawyer | Apr 26, 2019 | Uncategorised
Interesting article from a College Principal, reviewing the apprenticeships agenda a year on since writing open letters to five government ministers about the apprenticeships agenda for National Apprenticeship Week 2018.
by Sarah Sawyer | Apr 26, 2019 | Uncategorised
The ESFA are seeking feedback to help them to improve their QAR processes and how they support providers. To contribute your views about your experience of the QAR 2017 to 2018 process, you can complete their provider feedback survey. The survey will close on 3 May...
by Sarah Sawyer | Apr 26, 2019 | Uncategorised
The ESFA has launched the View Your Education Data portal. This portal replaces the Birst (My BI) service and will contain interactive dashboards and reports on the data submitted by your organisation, along with links to relevant help and support information. The...
by Sarah Sawyer | Apr 26, 2019 | Uncategorised
The Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education (IfATE) has published its April newsletter which includes references to the newly launched nursing associate apprenticeship standard, the EQA contract award and a T Level update.
