A Turbulent Week For T Levels

The Government’s T-Levels policy has been rocked this week by formal notification of an anticipated legal challenge to the implementation plan by the Federation of Awarding Bodies who are concerned about tight implementation timescales and awarding body...

ESFA FE Update 18th June

Latest from the ESFA including: 1. Information: industry placements – capacity and delivery fund (CDF) for 2019 to 2020 for 16 to 19 providers not in receipt of CDF in 2018 to 2019 academic year; 2. Information: non-levy apprenticeship performance-management...

AELP Offers End Point Assessor Training

AELP has developed an EPA Offer to support assessors to acquire the necessary skills for the role. Understandably, this is only available to AELP members, so if any SCTP member wants to join AELP we’d remind them that discounts are available via their SCTP...

AELP Publishes Traineeship Briefing Paper

National provider network, AELP has published a new Briefing Paper, “Tackling the Growing Barriers to Traineeship Success”,  which is full of useful statistics and feedback from the recent Traineeships event in Parliament, which was followed up by a meeting with...

ForSkills Maths & English Survey

Click here to take part in the ForSkills 2018 maths and English survey for the post-16 sector. With over 300 responses last year this survey is now established as a key vehicle for taking the temperature of maths & English skills delivery. As such it’s a...

Analysis of Sussex Apprenticeship Starts

Click here for a spreadsheet showing SCTP’s local analysis of last week’s apprenticeship starts figures released by the DfE. This shows starts by borough, district and parliamentary constituency and compares Q1-3 (August 2017-April 2018) with the same...

Ofsted Publishes Annual Report

Ofsted has published its latest annual report and accounts showing it had met or exceeded requirements in nine of its thirteen strategic work streams and had completed most inspection schedules despite a reduction in budget.

Register Now for the SCTP Members’ Meeting 19 July

The next SCTP Members’ Meeting is on Thursday 19th July at Clair Hall, Haywards Heath from 9.30-1.00. We hope to see many of you there to listen to speakers from the IfA, SELEP and the Prison Service and enjoy the networking opportunities throughout the morning....