by Jasmine Griffiths | Sep 4, 2023 | Uncategorised
The Sussex Chamber of Commerce is pleased to announce that it has received approval from the Secretary of State for the Local Skills Improvement Plan for the Sussex area, including Future Skills Sussex and the associated annexes. A representative from the Chamber said...
by Jasmine Griffiths | Sep 4, 2023 | Uncategorised
This insight looks at how the UK’s economy performed in the second quarter of 2023. Recent grounds for economic optimism have been fleeting. While the latest figures on GDP growth were higher than expected and inflation fell to its lowest rate in over a year...
by Jasmine Griffiths | Sep 4, 2023 | Uncategorised
Runway Training have launched a function skills pilot, to tackle the issue of learners being entered into their final Functional Skills exam with insufficient exam practice, knowledge gaps or without practical application deficiencies being accurately identified and...
by Jasmine Griffiths | Sep 4, 2023 | Uncategorised
In a recently published assessment, DfE permanent secretary Susan Acland-Hood announced that the lifelong loan entitlement faces “significant challenges” that could delay the planned 2025 rollout. She also concluded that the flagship skills reform policy represents...
by Jasmine Griffiths | Sep 4, 2023 | Uncategorised
The 2021 Skills for Jobs white paper set out the DfE’s plans to introduce a mandatory, comprehensive data collection on the FE workforce. The first release, published recently, covers the 2021/22 academic year and includes data from over 1,250 general FE...
by Jasmine Griffiths | Sep 4, 2023 | Uncategorised
ESFA are making improvements to the Recruit an Apprentice area of your Apprenticeship Service account. This service enhancement will allow you to: share applications with employers share the status of each application with employers share the outcome of vacancies with...
by Jasmine Griffiths | Sep 4, 2023 | Uncategorised
ITPs are an important part of the skills infrastructure and play a key role in supporting young people. ESFA need to ensure the ITP provider base is in a sound financial position and so are improving their oversight by asking some ITPs to submit financial forecast...
by Jasmine Griffiths | Sep 4, 2023 | Uncategorised
Latest from ESFA including: 1. Action: how to claim exceptional learning support (ELS) for 2023 to 2024. 2. Information: changes to 16 to 19 funding calculation for R02. 3. Information: independent training providers (ITP) financial forecasts. 4. Information: recruit...
by Jasmine Griffiths | Sep 4, 2023 | Uncategorised
Ofqual have put together infographics summarising the key trends from Level 3 vocational and technical qualification results in summer 2023. You can explore the results data yourself on the Ofqual Analytics website.
by Jasmine Griffiths | Sep 4, 2023 | Uncategorised
Students in London and the South East recorded the largest rise in top A-level results compared to 2019 as grade standards settled back to the new post-pandemic normal, with those in the north east hardest-hit. Results this year have mostly returned to pre-pandemic...
