by Jasmine Griffiths | Jul 2, 2023 | Uncategorised
ESFA have provided an update to the provider-facing dashboard that supports the apprenticeships accountability framework. Providers can view the dashboard on View your Education data. Functionality has now been added to allow providers to drill-down to learner level...
by Jasmine Griffiths | Jul 2, 2023 | Uncategorised
ESFA have updated their post-16 interactive tool to support you with returning accurate post-16 school census data. Some institutions risk not getting the funding they should because of inaccurate data. The tool will help you understand: how your data is used to...
by Jasmine Griffiths | Jul 2, 2023 | Uncategorised
The registration portal to allow providers to register to deliver T Levels for the first time in the 2025/26 academic year has been opened and will close at midnight on the 22 March 2024. ESFA are encouraging providers to register before 28 July 2023 to access the...
by Jasmine Griffiths | Jul 2, 2023 | Uncategorised
Latest from ESFA including: 1. Action: register now to deliver T Levels for the first time in the 2025 to 2026 academic year. 2. Information: interactive post-16 census tool 2023 to 2024 now available. 3. Information: national professional qualification (NPQ) targeted...
by Jasmine Griffiths | Jul 2, 2023 | Uncategorised
This briefing analyses the parliamentary progress of the Lifelong Learning (Higher Education Fee Limits) Bill. The Bill has passed the Commons and its second reading in the Lords. The Bill would introduce a new ‘credit-based method’ to set tuition fee levels for...
by Jasmine Griffiths | Jul 2, 2023 | Uncategorised
On Wednesday 5 July there will be an Estimates Day Debate on the spending of the Department for Education on adult education, post-16 education, further education and colleges. The topic for the debate was proposed by the Backbench Business Committee, on applications...
by Jasmine Griffiths | Jul 2, 2023 | Uncategorised
Skills Minister Robert Halfon announced at the Association of Employment and Learning Providers’ national conference, that apprenticeships in care and logistics will receive a ‘substantial’ funding boost. Funding for the level 2 adult care worker and...
by Jasmine Griffiths | Jul 2, 2023 | Uncategorised
A report by the Parliamentary education committee has recommended that ministers should trial the direct funding of careers advisers, as the expectation on schools and colleges to pay for services out of their “already stretched budgets” was “causing significant...
by Jasmine Griffiths | Jul 2, 2023 | Uncategorised
Ofqual is undertaking a feasibility study alongside the Department for Education on “what it would take” to make GCSEs and A-levels exams “fully digital”. Dr Jo Saxton, Ofqual’s chief regulator said at the House of Lords “It is important to set guardrails so...
by Jasmine Griffiths | Jul 2, 2023 | Uncategorised
The amount of NHS clinicians that the government plans to train through apprenticeships will more than double in the next five years, according to the NHS workforce plan. The plan sets out the government’s goals for the medical workforce in England, which will invest...