From Stuart Linden, Higher Executive Officer, Northern Territory Intervention Team (North East and Cumbria), Further Education Directorate, Education and Skills Funding Agency: It was good to see you last week at the North East Learning Providers…
By Mark Dawe, Chief Executive at AELP: I was writing this yesterday and thinking – this is all very serious and sensible as an intro. Then bang – DfE show their hand this morning. (Click here…
The ESFA have published a presentation on the 16 to 19 funding allocations process for 2019 to 2020. This provides further information on this year’s allocation process following our annual letter to the sector in December…
The ESFA have published the high needs place change notification outcomes that will inform the funded place numbers for academic year 2019 to 2020 in academies, free schools, further education colleges and independent learning providers. The ESFA have also published information…
The ESFA are extending apprenticeship non-levy contracts for 12 months (from 1 April 2019 to 31 March 2020). They will confirm your allocation in late February 2019. Your allocation will be based on your delivery to…
The ESFA are reviewing providers’ delivery on current contracts and will be releasing over delivery in the January 18 to March 18, April 18 to July 18 and August 18 to March 19 periods, where there…
The ESFA are looking for training providers to join our apprenticeship training provider user research panel to help improve our online services. The ESFA want to hear your views on our service and our future prototypes. Your participation…
The ESFA will shortly be sending out the next set of invitations to providers to re-apply to join the Register of Apprenticeship Training Providers (RoATP). Please remember to check that your contact details are up-to-date in…
The query window for the provisional QAR 2017 to 2018 data closes this week. You have until 5pm on Friday 1 February to inform us of any concerns about how we have implemented our published methodology….
Today the ESFA published version 1 of the ILR specification for 2019/20 – which includes quite a few changes – including this beauty: “For apprenticeship standards, for continuing learners with a Learning Actual End date on…
