by Sarah Sawyer | Aug 23, 2017 | Uncategorised
Eileen Milner will join the Education and Skills Funding Agency as the new Chief Executive in November replacing the retiring Peter Lauener. Click here for details and here for the response from sector leaders.
by Sarah Sawyer | Aug 21, 2017 | Uncategorised
Latest issue of the magazine aimed at employers across the South East.
by Sarah Sawyer | Aug 21, 2017 | Uncategorised
Post-16 education providers and students alike can now benefit from an expanded collection of free digital text books aimed at those retaking English language and maths GCSEs. Another 15 ebooks have been added to the initial 23 titles that went live in September 2016....
by Sarah Sawyer | Aug 21, 2017 | Uncategorised
The National Skills Academy for Financial Services won two ESF/SFA Skills Support For The Workforce lots in the Coast To Capital LEP area – one aimed at Intermediate & Higher Skills Provision For The Employed, (known as ‘Skills For Growth’) the...
by Sarah Sawyer | Aug 18, 2017 | Uncategorised
Tuesday 22nd August sees the next meeting of the South East LEP’s Skills Advisory Group. This group brings together skills policy and interventions across the SELEP area of Kent, Essex and E Sussex. SCTP represents its members on this group and we would be keen...
by Sarah Sawyer | Aug 17, 2017 | Uncategorised
There has been much in the sector news this week about the Grade 4 Ofsted report for Learndirect and the various legal challenges that preceded its publication. Learndirect is not a SCTP member but SCTP is always concerned to hear of a provider in difficulty. There...
by Sarah Sawyer | Aug 17, 2017 | Uncategorised
Click here for DfE press release on ‘A’ level results and here for an article by AELP CEO Mark Dawe urging young people and their parents too look at all the careers routes available and not to see apprenticeships as merely something for ‘other...
by Sarah Sawyer | Aug 17, 2017 | Uncategorised
This article from Deirdre Hughes of the Institute of Employment Research provides a well-balanced critique of the current state of careers guidance in full time education and outlines the improvements that need to be made.
by Sarah Sawyer | Aug 17, 2017 | Uncategorised
Across the country a significant number of training providers are unhappy over the handling the adult education budget procurement process having had their contracts rejected despite near-perfect scores in the bid evaluation. An analysis and comment on the process...
by Sarah Sawyer | Aug 16, 2017 | Uncategorised
Ufi Charitable Trust, a grant-funding body which supports the delivery of adult vocational skills through digital technology, has announced £100,000 of funding for a vocational training project that will use artificial intelligence to create ‘just in time’...
