by SCTP | Nov 30, 2017 | Uncategorised
Advanced learner loan applications are continuing to fall, according to new government statistics. Applications so far for 2017/18 are down 11,100 – or 17 per cent – on the same time last year. Click here for more from FE Week.
by SCTP | Nov 30, 2017 | Uncategorised
Today, Education Secretary, Justine Greening will host the Department for Education’s first ever Skills Summit which is designed to signal the start of a new partnership between Government and business that will spread opportunity to more communities. The text...
by SCTP | Nov 29, 2017 | Uncategorised
Latest from the ESFA (former SFA) including: 1. ESFA e-tendering portal – new URL; 2. Funding reports guidance 2017 to 2018; 3. Earnings adjustment statement 2017 to 2018; 4. Disability Confident – offering an interview to disabled people; 5. New qualification...
by SCTP | Nov 29, 2017 | Uncategorised
The Social Mobility Commission published its fifth annual ‘state of the nation’ report on social mobility highlighting sharp social divides across different regions in the country and calling for a national ten-year plan targeted at local ‘cold spots’ to help remedy...
by SCTP | Nov 29, 2017 | Uncategorised
The ESFA’s monthly e-news for MI managers, software writers and suppliers about FE data systems and reports, the ILR, open data and other data news.
by SCTP | Nov 28, 2017 | Uncategorised
Ofsted has published data for inspections and outcomes for all FE and skills providers as at 31 August 2017 including data for inspections conducted between September 2016 and 31 August 2017. This shows 15% of inspection outcomes as outstanding, 64% as good and 18% as...
by SCTP | Nov 27, 2017 | Uncategorised
The most recent issue of the C2C LEP’s newsletter.
by SCTP | Nov 27, 2017 | Uncategorised
The Department for Education has published a report into effective teaching and provision of English and mathematics to those without GCSE grades A* to C. The report focuses on what works best in helping students with resits and found no single, simple solution but...
by SCTP | Nov 27, 2017 | Uncategorised
This Foresight report looks at the barriers to skills and lifelong learning in the UK. The report lists five future skills challenges (poor literacy/numeracy, work-preparedness, skill mismatches, low skills equilibrium, lifelong learning) that may ultimately prove...
by Sarah Sawyer | Nov 27, 2017 | Uncategorised
The government has launched their Industrial Strategy today. The Strategy sets out the government’s vision for how Britain can build on its economic strengths, address its productivity performance, embrace technological change and boost the earning power of...
