by Sarah Sawyer | Sep 21, 2020 | Uncategorised
National Apprenticeship Week has been announced as 8 – 14 February 2021. The annual week-long celebration of apprenticeships, taking place across England, will showcase how apprenticeships have helped employers and people of all ages and backgrounds. Employers...
by Sarah Sawyer | Sep 21, 2020 | Uncategorised
East Sussex County Council (ESCC) has issued advice to businesses and venues on actions they need to take with regards to the new NHS tracking app introduced on 24 September. Their website includes links for businesses and venues to print their own posters and videos...
by Sarah Sawyer | Sep 21, 2020 | Uncategorised
Footprint Intelligence and Nestlé have published a report ‘Defusing The Talent Timebomb – How Foodservice Can Attract And Retain Talent’ which examines the hospitality sector’s employment challenges and offers a guide to being a responsible employer that will...
by Sarah Sawyer | Sep 21, 2020 | Uncategorised
The Further Education Trust for Leadership (FETL) has published a new report which considers the role of governance in improving organisational performance and teaching and learning outcomes and makes a number of recommendations as to how its potential contribution to...
by Sarah Sawyer | Sep 20, 2020 | Uncategorised
The government has announced a new support payment to help with self-isolation, and new fines for breaching self-isolation rules. A payment of £500 for those on lower incomes who cannot work from home and have lost income as a result has been announced, with new fines...
by Sarah Sawyer | Sep 18, 2020 | Uncategorised
EDSK, an independent ‘think tank’, has published a report, funded by the Further Education Trust for Leadership (FETL), outlining a package of reforms to create a new role, purpose and direction for the FE sector. One of the recommendations of the report...
by Sarah Sawyer | Sep 18, 2020 | Uncategorised
The Institute for Employment Studies has published a briefing note estimating the impact on redundancies of COVID-19. It uses newly released data from employers planning 20 or more redundancies alongside historic estimates of actual redundancies, in order to estimate...
by Sarah Sawyer | Sep 18, 2020 | Uncategorised
West Sussex County Council’s Cabinet has met to discuss the county’s response to COVID-19. An ‘economy reset plan’ is in development to supersede the county council’s existing Economic Growth Plan. It proposes nine priority themes to help mitigate the...
by Sarah Sawyer | Sep 18, 2020 | Uncategorised
PWC has published research assessing the impact on the UK economy of office workers continuing to work from home, versus if they were to return to their pre-COVID-19 offices for their regular working hours. One of their key findings is that if those workers continue...
by Sarah Sawyer | Sep 18, 2020 | Uncategorised
This article discusses recent analysis which identifies a slight narrowing of the attainment gap at GCSE grade 4 or above by disadvantaged students. The attainment gap however remains very large at 22 percentage points, but the comparable figures last year show a gap...
