SELEP Skills Advisory Group Meeting Preview

Tuesday the 10 July sees the next meeting of the South East LEP’s Skills Advisory Group that oversees skill strategy for the SELEP region across East Sussex, Kent and Essex. The agenda covers a range of items including finalising the SELEP Skill Strategy, an...

Minutes of the Skills East Sussex Meeting 21 June

Skills East Sussex, the strategic skills group for the county met recently and heard updates from SELEP, the employer-based task groups and heard from local colleges about their curriculum offers. Click here for the minutes. The group has asked SCTP to collate...

Great Debate held on Apprenticeships

The first in a series of FE Week and Pearson Great Debates was held in parliament this week, with nearly 300 sector leaders debating whether further reforms are needed to the apprenticeships system of whether stability needs to be paramount. A report on the event and...

East Sussex Funding News – July Edition

Click here to see the July edition of East Sussex County Council’s Funding News. Funding News is a monthly bulletin about forthcoming funding opportunities and recent successful applications and includes a Funding Diary and a summary of deadlines. We’ll be featuring...

GLA Provider Briefings on AEB

The GLA has published a Skills for Londoners Framework which sets out the Mayor’s priorities for AEB. In the first year of devolution, the GLA will continue to provide grant funding to those organisations that are delivering provision to London residents in line with...

A Year of Apprenticeship Tipping Points

In this useful article, Richard Marsh of national provider Kaplan, charts the implementation of the apprenticeship reforms and suggests we have passed some milestones in the transition from frameworks to standards and procurement to new market access.