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Today we have published the ESFA apprenticeship funding rules 2018 to 2019 (version 2) on GOV.UK. The rules apply to all providers, employers and employers-providers receiving apprenticeship funding from the ESFA. We have made changes to this document due to ...
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Document Exchange user feedback requested from Local Authorities We are doing some work to improve the user experience of the Document Exchange service. In this round of research, we are particularly interested to speak with service users within local authorities ...
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Apprenticeship funding rules user feedback survey We are doing some work to make the apprenticeship funding rules clearer, easier to use, and to learn more about the users. As part of this continuing work, we would like employers, employer-providers and ...
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Final qualification achievement rates (QAR) 2017 to 2018 We will publish your final QAR 2017 to 2018 data on Thursday 28 March. The data extracts and reports will be available in the ‘QAR reports’ section of the Data Returns page ...
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Please be aware that we will need to take the Manage your education and skills funding service down for an hour from 7pm on Monday 25th February to allow us to make some important updates to our service ...
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Calling all apprenticeship training providers! Help us improve how content is organised on the apprenticeship service. Please take part in our 15 minute research activity. The survey closes on Tuesday 12 February. https://www.provenbyusers.com/cs.php?c=bf734332 ...
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R05 funding monitoring reports published We have published the R05 funding monitoring reports on the Hub. The funding monitoring reports user guide 2018 to 2019 explains how to access the reports and any actions you must take to ensure data ...
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Managing apprentice records - When to pause and stop an apprentice record webinar recording Following our webinar about when to pause and stop an apprentice record we have made the recording available on our YouTube channel. User research is extremely ...
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Qualification achievement rates (QAR) 2017 to 2018 – provisional data update Thank you to those who have provided feedback on the provisional QAR 2017 to 2018 data and raised queries. We have identified a minor issue affecting the QAR calculation ...
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For all training providers and employer-providers: apprenticeship service webinar series: When to pause and stop an apprentice record The apprenticeship service is pleased to bring you the next in our series of support webinars. This webinar is intended for training ...
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