by Sarah Sawyer | Feb 22, 2019 | Uncategorised
Plumpton College has been working on a research project for the Outstanding Learning & Assessment programme (OTLA 4), which has been focusing on how employers can teach technical numeracy, literacy and ICT skills as a vital component of apprenticeship programmes....
by Sarah Sawyer | Feb 22, 2019 | Uncategorised
Ofqual has published a series of infographics outlining the work it is doing with an emphasis on current reforms to qualifications in England.
by Sarah Sawyer | Feb 22, 2019 | Uncategorised
The Institute for Apprenticeships & Technical Education (IfATE) has published information about the 15 Route Panels which represent the employer voice within the IfATE. They explain what the route panels are responsible for, how they operate and how the panel...
by Sarah Sawyer | Feb 22, 2019 | Uncategorised
The Labour party have announced the commission panel for its new lifelong learning commission. The commission will bring together 14 experts from across the education sector, to devise an inclusive system of adult education to be implemented by the next Labour...
by Sarah Sawyer | Feb 22, 2019 | Uncategorised
The Association of Colleges has called for an increase in the funding rate for 16 – 18 year olds from the £4000 unweighted base rate, to £5000. They say this increase is needed to avoid a ‘T Levels crisis’. Read more on this story here.
by Sarah Sawyer | Feb 22, 2019 | Uncategorised
The government is developing an independent training provider risk assessment tool as part of its oversight arrangements. No details have been released about it yet. Read more about this here.
by Sarah Sawyer | Feb 21, 2019 | Uncategorised
The ESFA ran a customer survey in December to gain feedback to help them to improve their communications. They have published the survey findings along with what they plan to do to improve their communications.
by Sarah Sawyer | Feb 21, 2019 | Uncategorised
A reminder that the next SCTP pre-employment meeting takes place on Wednesday 27 February, 10.00-13.00 at Lewes Jobcentre Plus. As always this is a great opportunity for members to focus on pre-employment programmes and to compare notes with each other and other key...
by Sarah Sawyer | Feb 21, 2019 | Uncategorised
If you are hosting an event during National Apprenticeship Week (NAW), which runs from 4-8 March, you can add it to the National Apprenticeship Service events map, to help promote it. NAW resources are available to use and you can use #NAW2019 and #BlazeATrail on...
by Sarah Sawyer | Feb 21, 2019 | Uncategorised
A reminder that the free Teach Too mini-conference, organised by SCTP, in partnership with the Association of Colleges and the Education & Training Foundation, is available for registration. The event, ‘Speaking a Shared Language: planning the future of skills...
