by Sarah Sawyer | Jan 28, 2022 | Uncategorised
The Level 5 learning and skills teacher apprenticeship has been through the Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education’s revisions process and refreshed to better reflect the role that teachers play across the FE sector. One change is that the...
by Sarah Sawyer | Jan 28, 2022 | Uncategorised
This article addresses the underspend in traineeships which has been returned to the Treasury. Skills minister Alex Burghart revealed the £65 million underspend in answer to a parliamentary question. It also highlights that DfE data shows that 17,400 starts were...
by Sarah Sawyer | Jan 28, 2022 | Uncategorised
The latest monthly newsletter from the Education & Training Foundation for January – February outlines the latest news and support programmes for the FE and skills sector. The latest monthly newsletter for the Centres for Excellence in Maths (CfEM) has also...
by Sarah Sawyer | Jan 28, 2022 | Uncategorised
SCTP member, London Learning Consortium is managing ESF Community Grants funding in the Coast to Capital Local Enterprise Partnership (C2C LEP) area. The funding is in the form of small grants of up to £20,000 to third sector and other small organisations for the...
by Sarah Sawyer | Jan 28, 2022 | Uncategorised
A secondary school in Brighton has been in contact asking if any training provider would be able to deliver short courses to a small cohort of students. Courses they would be interested in would be at Level 1 in subjects such as First Aid, Lifeguard, Horticulture,...
by Sarah Sawyer | Jan 27, 2022 | Uncategorised
This article, examining the FE participation figures just released, addresses the number of learners starting a course through the government’s ‘free courses for jobs’ offer.
by Sarah Sawyer | Jan 27, 2022 | Uncategorised
The government has announced a new target to move half a million people into jobs by the end of June, as part of a new ‘Way to Work’ campaign. This new announcement is targeted at people on Universal Credit, and aims to support people to move into work...
by Sarah Sawyer | Jan 27, 2022 | Uncategorised
The DfE has published the apprenticeships and traineeship statistics for the first quarter (August to October 2021) of the 2021 to 2022 academic year. The figures show that there have been 130,200 apprenticeship starts in the first quarter, which is up 43% from the...
by Sarah Sawyer | Jan 26, 2022 | Uncategorised
The Education Secretary, Nadhim Zahawi, is hosting a summit with university vice chancellors, university reps and Jewish rights groups to look at incidents of antisemitism on campus and discuss measures and commitments that can be taken to ensure Jewish students and...
by Sarah Sawyer | Jan 26, 2022 | Uncategorised
A recent poll of 500 employers has found that almost half of them had returned unspent apprenticeship levy funding, and that 17% of them felt the system was currently working well. This article from the CIPD, commenting on the poll results, calls for a reform of the...