Further Education and Skills: July 2024

These further education and skills statistics cover the first three quarters of the 2023 to 2024 academic year, reported to date. They include government-funded further education for adults, aged 19 and over. This covers: adult further education and skills summary...

Apprenticeships: July 2024

This months apprenticeships publication has been updated. Key figures from the 2023/24 academic year show: Apprenticeship starts were up by 1.1% to 278,590 compared to 275,630 reported for the same period in the previous year. Under 19s accounted for 25.1% of starts...

Adult Skills Fund: Funding Rules for 2024-25

ESFA have published an updated version of the adult skills funding and performance management rules for 2024 to 2025. This includes a new section for performance management, along with new supporting annexes, F, G and H. They have also updated sections on residency,...

Changes to Ungraded Inspections

In this blog post, UCAS talks through the changes being made to ungraded inspections in the autumn term. These changes were initially announced by Sir Martyn Oliver in his speech to the NAHT in May. In his speech, Sir Martyn emphasised the importance of professional...