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A second funding rate consultation has been launched by the government’s apprenticeships quango. The Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education is currently seeking views on a revised proposal for a new model for setting individual apprenticeship standard funding rates. Following a review of over “200 consultation responses” IfATE have laid out revised plans for a […]
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We are determined at the Institute to create a more transparent approach for making apprenticeship funding band recommendations that will support high quality training for many years to come. We are always prepared to listen to feedback and think seriously about how we can improve our work. This project emerged from us recognising the widespread […]
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All BTEC results will be ready by next Friday, awarding body Pearson has said, adding that level 3 results will be available from next Tuesday. This comes after Pearson committed an eleventh-hour U-turn and said results for levels 1 to 3 were to be regraded, less than a day before students were due to receive […]
Colleges have been told not to issue BTEC results tomorrow after an eleventh hour grading U-turn from Pearson. The company, which is the custodian of BTECs, told colleges at 4.30pm today the qualifications will be regraded to “apply consistency across teacher assessed internal grades” following the U-turn for GCSEs and A-levels. While CAGs for internal […]
Going back to teacher-assessed grades for A-levels is the “best option” for the “unprecedented and chaotic circumstances,” writes Labour’s shadow apprenticeships and lifelong learning minister Toby Perkins. The stories of devastated students across England as the exam results were announced was as unfair as it was heart-wrenching. Students who have been assessed by the teaching […]
New rules on funding 19 to 24 year-olds completing traineeships have been released by the Education and Skills Funding Agency, after the government announced a £111 million boost for the ‘proven’ programme. Guidance around initiatives announced by the ESFA last month, such as cutting the hours for the programme’s mandatory work placement from 100 to […]
The Association of Colleges has written to education secretary Gavin Williamson and Ofqual chief regulator Sally Collier calling for an “urgent” review into the standardisation process used for A-level results from larger centres. David Hughes, the association’s chief executive, writes in the letter it appears some colleges with larger numbers of A-level students have been […]
End-point assessment is a key aspect of the government’s apprenticeship reforms, providing an independent test that an apprentice has achieved occupational competence at the end of their apprenticeship. It only succeeds where it is seen to provide a fair, reliable and consistent test of whether different apprentices have reached competence and that includes assessing their […]
Exams watchdog Ofqual is to take the lead in a “new simplified external quality assurance (EQA) system” for apprenticeships it has been confirmed this afternoon. The Institute for Apprenticeship and Technical Education (IfATE) had been consulting on ending the current complex arrangements in which employer bodies and even the IfATE themselves are responsible for oversight […]
