The next meeting will be held on Thursday 27 May 2021; again this meeting will be a virtual meeting. On this occasion we will be using GoToMeeting again but we are investigating the use of alternative systems.
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Keynote addresses from Rt. Hon Thérèse Coffey MP and Kate Green OBE MP The pandemic has triggered the sharpest fall in economic output since records began. Despite unprecedented intervention to support businesses and jobs, we have…
From FE Week: A new £83 million fund has been launched to ensure colleges can accommodate an expected demographic increase in 16 to 19-year-olds. The “Post-16 Capacity fund” was promised in chancellor Rishi Sunak’s spending review in…
From FE Week: The scope of new powers for the education secretary to intervene where colleges are deemed to be “failing” their communities will be revealed today. The first draft of the new Skills and Post-16…
From FE Week: A third of FE and school staff felt “undue pressure” on their professional judgment when issuing exam grades in 2020, according to an Ofqual survey. The exams regulator has published a report on…
From FE Week: The flagship national college for HS2 has been officially closed by ministers after facing insolvency, and relaunched as a subsidiary of a university. The National College for Advanced Transport and Infrastructure (NCATI), which…
The ESFA have published a new guide online, which gives training providers step-by-step advice for delivering high-quality apprenticeships. Informed by providers, apprentices and the quality bodies, this guide is for all providers delivering apprenticeships at any…
High level national summaries of qualification achievement rates (QARs) for the 2019 to 2020 academic year were made available in the further education and skills, and apprenticeships and traineeships statistics publications for March 2021. The ESFA previously confirmed, for 2019…
A new manual, co-authored by Industry and Government, has been published to set out how flexibilities in apprenticeships can be used and delivered in construction. The ‘Flexible Apprenticeships in Construction’ manual explains how apprenticeship training can…
Paragraphs 250 to 254 of version 5 of the AEB funding rules for 2020 to 2021 explain how learner support funds can be used to support learners to access IT if they are unable to undertake online delivery…
In February the ESFA added Find a further education service, which is a starting page that links to key ESFA services and the funding rules. The ESFA have now added a calendar that shows you key…
