About ‘Back the Future’ ‘Back the Future’ is a collective of employers, intermediaries and apprenticeship training providers who believe we should be backing the UK’s future talent pipeline by not paying apprentice minimum wages, but by providing decent and fair pay for all apprentices employed in the UK. We are committed to addressing social mobility issues by […]
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A new Legal Services T Level will drive up standards and help open out the profession to a more diverse variety of young people than ever before. T Levels are classroom-based two-year courses, for 16- to 19-year-olds, that follow GCSEs and are equivalent to 3 A Levels. They crucially involve extensive ‘on-the-job’ training through an
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The Institute will reform and improve degree apprenticeships following strong support from consultation respondents. Degree apprenticeships already play a hugely important role in our education and skills system. They give people, who may not previously have had the opportunity, a chance to progress their careers through higher education. The Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education (the
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End Point Assessor Training. With the success of the Apprenticeship programme gathering pace in our industry, the IAT put out a call to recruit more “End Point Assessors”, (EPAs). EPAs are needed to assess apprentices who are completing the very final stage of their apprenticeship. As our industry is very diverse in terms of the
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Detailed guidance explaining how apprenticeship flexibilities will be retained into 2022 and beyond has been published today (Thursday). The Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education (the Institute) announced in August that the measures introduced to help support the sector through Covid-19 would run until at least the end of this year. The decision was subsequently made, following
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Covid-19 apprenticeship measures to run to end of 2021 Apprenticeship flexibilities and temporary discretions introduced to support the sector through Covid-19 will run until the end of 2021, but a number will then come to an end. In February of this year, the Institute committed to provide at least a three-month notice period before making
Update March 2021. The NCSC is responding to further targeted ransomware attacks on the education sector by cyber criminals. Since late February 2021, an increased number of ransomware attacks have affected education establishments in the UK, including schools, colleges and universities. The NCSC continues to respond to an increased number of ransomware attacks affecting education
IAT Education on mySociety We are very pleased to announce that the education aspects of the new IAT database are now fully operational. This means that all applications for IAT qualifications can be made via mySociety. MIAT, FIAT and RAnTech applications can also be made this way. If you are an existing member of the
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We are now conducting a survey of providers (please click here, or scan QR code below) on how many Guided Learning hours they expect to need for each level 3 module for us to feed into our review. As with level 2, the current level 3 diploma shows Total Qualification Time broken down per module,
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Arrangements for 2021 There are 3 ways learners will be able to access a result. Assessments can continue to take place in a training provider, college, school, employer premises or alternative location, where it is safe for them to do so in line with public health guidance. Assessments can be taken remotely or online. Where
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On Saturday, the Government announced new measures to attract more overseas students, boosting access to global student exchanges for thousands of people, and supporting international education partnerships. In addition, the Department for International Trade and Department for Education jointly published the 2021 update to the International Education Strategy, which restates the government’s commitment to
The Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education has today (4 August 2020) published its consultation outcomes which confirm the arrangements to simplify the External Quality Assurance (EQA) of apprenticeship End Point Assessments. Under the new arrangements, EQA will be delivered by Ofqual and the Office for Students, in alignment with the Institute’s framework. Sally Collier, Chief Regulator,
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