Non Levy Growth Request Opportunity Open Now

Providers are now able to submit requests for increases to their non levy apprenticeship procured contract value for the funding year 2017 to 2018 and 2018 to 2019. Completed growth request forms need to be submitted to ESFA Provider Performance Management before 5pm...

DfE Publishes Quarterly NEET Statistics

Click here for the statistics for young people not in education, employment or training (NEET) for the period October-December 2017. The figures show that the proportion of young people NEET decreased for the 16-18 age group and remained relatively stable for the...

Article Looking at European Funding Post Brexit

This useful FE News article looks at research into how much EU funding we are currently relying on and how the post Brexit landscape might look and the need for the Government to pick up the funding of projects and programmes in the future.

Worldskills Registration Opens For Learners

From 1 March – 7 April, you can register your students and apprentices to take part in WorldSkills UK Competitions 2018. The competitions enable apprentices and learners to build on their knowledge and develop their technical and personal skills. For employers...

ETF Newsletters

See the February newsletter from the Education & Training Foundation and also their South East Maths & English Newsletter for March. Both newsletters have details of the ETF’s support available to the education and skills sector.

ESFA Update Issue 393

Latest from the ESFA including: 1. Non levy apprenticeship procured growth requests; 2. National Apprenticeship Week 2018; 3. Funding rules monitoring reports on the hub.

SCTP Pre-employment Meeting Report

In spite of the snow, 23 people were able to attend SCTP’s Pre-employment meeting today at Lewes Jobcentre. The meeting included updates from DWP on Universal Credit, City & Guilds on T Levels, SCDA on the Work & Health Programme, Local Authorities on...

EPA Assessment Methods – The Presentation

We’ll be carrying this series of articles from the Strategic Development Network unpicking the detail of End Point Assessment. The first article gave an overview of EPA, the second article focussed on the use of Professional Discussion as an assessment method and this...