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The Skills Funding Agency (SFA) has now released its invitation to tender for adult education and training services. We look at what this means for the tendering landscape and the specifics of your contract that might make your tender more likely to succeed. After much delay, the Skills Funding Agency (SFA) has now released its invitation to tender for adult education and training services. The much anticipated document sets out what training the SFA is looking for from providers for the 2017/18 funding year.

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We offer lots of resources to support your delivery of our Functional Skills qualifications. These include Qualification Support Packs, Chief Examiner Reports and Amplification Guides to equip you to deliver the qualifications in a way that will ensure the best results for you and your learners. You’ll also get free access to ForSkills’ initial assessment and diagnostic tool, which supports learners’ progression and prepares them for their external assessment. This tool is vital for ensuring that your learners are learning at a level appropriate to them, and automatic signposting to interactive resources provides targeted teaching for each learner to address any skills gaps detected by the assessment process. This helps to ensure that they’re able to achieve the qualification.

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However you view it, 2016 was certainly an eventful year with significant repercussions on the national and international policy stage, and we’re now left with the political aftermath of last year. The invocation of Article 50 is due in the first quarter of this year. Although the government is keeping its own counsel on the precise nature of Brexit, restrictions on the movement of workers from the EU into the UK will mean skills gaps will grow in the UK workforce. In this instance, technical education will be more important than ever to support employers in plugging these skills gaps. Schools will play a key role in offering technical education options to young people looking to broaden their employment or study options after completing their studies.

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However you view it, 2016 was certainly an eventful year with significant repercussions on the national and international policy stage, and we’re now left with the political aftermath of last year. The invocation of Article 50 is due in the first quarter of this year. Although the government is keeping its own counsel on the precise nature of Brexit, restrictions on the movement of workers from the EU into the UK will mean skills gaps will grow in the UK workforce. In this instance, technical education will be more important than ever to support employers in plugging these skills gaps.

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The government made a commitment in its 2015 manifesto to overhaul national school funding. Since then, we’ve had a new Prime Minister and Education Secretary, and progress on the issue has been slow. We are starting to see firm proposals on how the new National Funding Formula will look. The nature of what the government is seeking to achieve makes this a very technical and complicated issue. The Education Secretary said that 10,700 schools will benefit from more funding under the fairer funding formula, while 9,128 will be funded at a lower level. It’s anticipated that rural schools will be among the big winners, whilst those in London will be more likely to see reductions.

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Lindsay Plumpton

David Grailey

Andrew Gladstone-Heighton

Esme Winch

Michael Lemin

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