by Sarah Sawyer | Jan 17, 2019 | Uncategorised
The Department for Education has published the expression of interest to deliver the next group of T Levels to be taught from 2021. The next 7 T Levels will be Health; Healthcare Science; Science; Onsite Construction; Building Services Engineering; Digital Support and...
by Sarah Sawyer | Jan 17, 2019 | Uncategorised
The government has launched a new campaign to promote apprenticeships among young people, parents and employers. The new campaign, which includes national TV and social media adverts and a new website, aims to help raise awareness of the variety of apprenticeship...
by Sarah Sawyer | Jan 16, 2019 | Uncategorised
Latest update from the ESFA including: 1. Action: how to express an interest to deliver T Levels in 2021 to 2022 academic year, including the transition offer; 2. Action: qualification achievement rates (QAR) 2017 to 2018 – provisional data window; 3. Action: help us...
by Sarah Sawyer | Jan 16, 2019 | Uncategorised
The Resolution Foundation has published a report on employment trends over the last decade since the global financial crisis. It looks into the decade of employment growth but notes that some of this has come at the cost of job quality and also that younger people...
by Sarah Sawyer | Jan 14, 2019 | Uncategorised
Kate Josephs has been appointed as the Education and Skills Funding Agency’s new director of funding. She is currently director of national operations for academies and regional delivery at the DfE and will start her new role in April. She will head up a new...
by Sarah Sawyer | Jan 14, 2019 | Uncategorised
Chris Jones, HMI, Specialist Adviser for Apprenticeships at Ofsted, has written a useful blog which covers Ofsted’s new provider monitoring visits. He outlines the themes the inspectors concentrate on and explains the progress judgements they make with some...
by Sarah Sawyer | Jan 14, 2019 | Uncategorised
The government has announced a new rail card for 16 and 17 year olds which enables them to get 50% discount on rail travel. The scheme will launch for September 2019 to coincide with the new academic year.
by Sarah Sawyer | Jan 14, 2019 | Uncategorised
The Education Secretary, Damian Hinds will appear before the Education Committee on Wednesday 16 January at 10:00, in its latest accountability session. The meeting will be broadcast live on Parliament TV.
by Sarah Sawyer | Jan 11, 2019 | Uncategorised
Anne Milton, Skills Minister, has responded to recent reports that the apprenticeships budget is heading for a huge overspend. Speaking this week, she said that she had no fears about the budget running out. More on this here. She has also vowed to look further into...
by Sarah Sawyer | Jan 11, 2019 | Uncategorised
The ESFA have published the minimum standard measure applied to all schools and colleges for 16-18 year olds for 2018.
