by Jasmine Griffiths | Feb 4, 2024 | Uncategorised
Over 70 courses are set to be cut by the government in effort to make way for the fourth wave of T Levels. Popular creative media practice and animal management BTECs will be among those to have their funding withdrawn from August 1, 2025, the DfE recently...
by Jasmine Griffiths | Feb 4, 2024 | Uncategorised
Accelerated adoption of AI could help the UK to achieve tech superpower status by 2028. However, businesses are still struggling to find employees with good digital skills. Amazon Web Services (AWS) commissioned independent consultancy, Strand Partners, to undertake a...
by Jasmine Griffiths | Feb 4, 2024 | Uncategorised
When comparing the pre-pandemic period to today, the national employment story has generally focused on the rise in inactivity due to ill health and the resultant fall in employment. However, in this report, Resolution Foundation show that this is not the picture in...
by Jasmine Griffiths | Jan 28, 2024 | Uncategorised
FE Week recently published a new report, Enabling Better Outcomes: A wider view of apprenticeship success, which has revealed that while employers see the value in hiring apprentices, there are many barriers to supporting apprentices to complete their apprenticeship...
by Jasmine Griffiths | Jan 28, 2024 | Uncategorised
The DfE has provided further education and skills statistics cover the first quarter 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...
by Jasmine Griffiths | Jan 28, 2024 | Uncategorised
Members of the UK’s first AI Opportunity Forum have been appointed with a clear mission to boost the adoption of AI in the private sector. Overseen by the Technology Secretary and the Prime Minister’s Special Adviser on Business and Investment, pioneering AI companies...