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’...
by Sarah Sawyer | Aug 16, 2017 | Uncategorised
Click here for a recording of yesterday’s e-Memoir webinar titled ‘An Update on the Funding of Adult Community Learning for 2017 to 2018’. The slides can be seen here.
by Sarah Sawyer | Aug 16, 2017 | Uncategorised
Unemployment in the UK fell by 57,000 in the three months to June, official figures show, bringing the jobless rate down to 4.4% – its lowest since 1975. The numbers of people in the UK who are in employment has increased and unemployment has decreased,...
by Sarah Sawyer | Aug 16, 2017 | Uncategorised
Latest news from the ESFA including: 1.ESF individualised learner record returns; 2.Updated apprenticeship funding and performance-management rules; 3.ESFA business plan 2017 to 2018.
by Sarah Sawyer | Aug 16, 2017 | Uncategorised
From April 2018, the ESFA plan to allow levy paying employers to transfer up to 10% of their levy credits to other employers or Apprenticeship Training Agencies (ATAs) using the apprenticeship service. The ESFA is looking to get feedback from a wide range of groups to...
by Sarah Sawyer | Aug 16, 2017 | Uncategorised
With GCSE results to be issued on the 24th of August it’s timely to remember that learners in new GCSEs in English language, English literature and maths, will receive numbers instead of letters as grades. This signals a change to GCSEs, with more grades at the...
by Sarah Sawyer | Aug 15, 2017 | Uncategorised
Firstly, the Education charity Teach First has found that those born in the poorest postcodes of the country have just a one in five chance of progressing to university. By contrast, half of young people born in the wealthiest postcodes go on to higher education. In a...
by Sarah Sawyer | Aug 15, 2017 | Uncategorised
See this useful article from an experienced practitioner.
by Sarah Sawyer | Aug 15, 2017 | Uncategorised
Do you have a good research idea but need some support and some thinking time to make it happen? Do you want to develop your teaching skills or understand education practice better? Do you want to be a part of the future of teaching in your sector? Applications are...
