by Sarah Sawyer | Jul 31, 2020 | Uncategorised
The DfE has produced some information to simplify the options available to young people after GCSE and A-Levels which could help aid discussions with students over results day/the summer. Post-16 options and post-18 options pages are available on the National Careers...
by Sarah Sawyer | Jul 30, 2020 | Uncategorised
The ETF is offering FE providers a free six-month subscription to its Enhance Digital Teaching Platform Management Dashboard. The Enhance Digital Teaching Platform has an expanding range of free EdTech training resources that FE provider staff can access anytime,...
by Sarah Sawyer | Jul 30, 2020 | Uncategorised
The DfE has published its latest apprenticeships and traineeships statistics. The data includes apprenticeship service data as of June 2020, and apprenticeship starts to May 2020, with separate June 2020 starts covering the COVID-19 outbreak. This contains figures for...
by Sarah Sawyer | Jul 30, 2020 | Uncategorised
The DfE has published annual statistics on young people’s participation in higher education by student characteristics, including eligibility for free school meals, gender, ethnicity, special educational need status and first language.
by Sarah Sawyer | Jul 30, 2020 | Uncategorised
The government has announced a new law to ensure that furloughed employees who are then made redundant will receive redundancy pay based on their normal wages, rather than a reduced furlough rate. This legislation will also ensure that notice pay is based on normal...
by Sarah Sawyer | Jul 30, 2020 | Uncategorised
The government has announced £20 million of new funding to help smaller businesses recover from the effects of COVID-19. Small and medium-sized businesses will have access to grants of between £1,000 – £5,000 to help them access new technology and other...
by Sarah Sawyer | Jul 30, 2020 | Uncategorised
The Treasury has announced that changes to state aid rules mean that more small businesses can now benefit from loans of up to £5 million under the Coronavirus Business Interruption Loan Scheme (CBILS). Previously businesses that were classed as ‘undertakings in...
by Sarah Sawyer | Jul 30, 2020 | Uncategorised
The Universities Minister, Michelle Donelan, has announced that over 9000 extra university places for engineering, science and nursing courses have been made available for September.
by Sarah Sawyer | Jul 30, 2020 | Uncategorised
The ESFA has published the 2020 to 2021 apprenticeship funding rules (version 1) in PDF, following feedback from their recent clarification exercise. The web-based rules will be live from the 1 August. The changes made from the 2019 to 2020 version are set out in the...
by Sarah Sawyer | Jul 30, 2020 | Uncategorised
The Office for National Statistics has published the latest ‘Coronavirus and the latest indicators for the UK economy and society‘ data. This is early experimental data on the impact of the coronavirus on the UK economy and society. These faster indicators are created...
