From FE Week: The majority of apprenticeship providers are not eligible for supplier relief from the Department for Education because of the Cabinet Office’s “very specific” policy notice, according to Gillian Keegan. The apprenticeships and skills…
From FE Week: The education secretary today dodged an MP’s question about his department’s delay in launching supplier relief support for training providers. On 20 March, the Cabinet Office published a policy notice that allowed payment in advance…
The National Careers Service is launching a Virtual Jobs Fair on Monday May 4th to promote local vacancies and support citizens to get back into work. The Virtual Jobs Fair will travel round different regions and…
THe ESFA have recently begun the process of migrating its online resources and legacy websites with the former sfa.bis.gov.uk universal resource locators (URL) address over to the new education.gov.uk address. In the ESFA Update 4 March 2020…
The ESFA plan to issue advanced learner loans agreements at the end of April for academic year 2020 to 2021. These will need to be signed by the end of May 2020. Please consider increasing the…
In line with our published policy on minimum standards we have reviewed providers’ achievement data published in the National achievement rates tables for 2018 to 2019. Where the provider has failed to meet the minimum standard achievement for all-age…
When we issued apprenticeship carry-in (non-procured) allocations for the 2019 to 2020 funding year in July 2019, we committed to review allocations in spring 2020. We have now completed this review and contract variations will be…
In response to industry feedback, from June the ESFA will issue variations to the 2020 apprenticeship agreements for training providers which were issued in March. The variation will vary the required level of professional indemnity insurance…
New flexibilities to make it easier for end-point assessments (EPAs) to take place during the COVID-19 outbreak have been introduced. The new temporary flexibilities, are set out in this list published by IfATE. The flexibilities, which may…
Earlier this month, the ESFA explained what we would do about year end reconciliation for grant funded providers in receipt of ESFA funded AEB, including 19-24 traineeships and ALLB fund for 2019 to 2020. The ESFA…
