by Sarah Sawyer | Oct 4, 2018 | Uncategorised
Click here to see the video recording of City & Guilds’ recent webinar on apprenticeships policy and funding changes 2018/19. The slides used are here.
by Sarah Sawyer | Oct 4, 2018 | Uncategorised
Latest update from the ESFA including: 1. Information: 2017 to 2018 year-end reconciliation statements; 2. Information: qualification achievement rates (QAR) – dashboard decommissioning and new reports; 3. Information: apprenticeships funding band review; 4....
by SCTP | Oct 3, 2018 | Uncategorised
We are delighted to announce that Business East Sussex has become the latest Partner Member of SCTP. We welcome Ian Smallwood, Head of Business Services and his team of Business Navigators that advise company’s across Sussex on a range of subjects including...
by SCTP | Oct 3, 2018 | Uncategorised
A new five-year strategy to develop the skilled workforce needed to help the South East continue to grow and play its vital role in the UK economy has been launched by the South East Local Enterprise Partnership (SELEP). Developed with local businesses and education...
by SCTP | Oct 3, 2018 | Uncategorised
Charlie Mullins of Pimlico Plumbers fame and long-time apprenticeship supporter, provides a refreshingly blunt assessment on where the apprenticeship programme is now and critiques the announcements made this week.
by SCTP | Oct 3, 2018 | Uncategorised
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) will fund Citizens Advice to provide Universal Support from April 2019. The support scheme will help claimants through every step of making a Universal Credit claim. It will offer people the comprehensive and practical...
by SCTP | Oct 3, 2018 | Uncategorised
The Department of Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy has published a policy prospectus that sets out the objectives, policy rationale and approach to developing Local Industrial Strategies in partnership with places. It also outlines next steps on engagement...
by SCTP | Oct 3, 2018 | Uncategorised
Click here for the Education Secretary’s speech to the Conservative Party Conference. There is much here that our members would likely agree with such as a commitment to equal educational and training opportunity, parity of esteem between technical and academic...
by SCTP | Oct 3, 2018 | Uncategorised
Congratulations to Greater Brighton Metropolitan College has been successful as one of 21 colleges receiving Maths Centres of Excellence funding. The centres are designed to test and share new ways to teach students who are re-sitting their maths GCSEs and will share...
by Sarah Sawyer | Oct 2, 2018 | Uncategorised
SCTP is pleased to announce details of the first two events in a series of interactive, industry-led events as part of the Teach Too initiative, tackling skills shortages in construction, engineering and tech. These events aim to explore how businesses and training...
