August 14-19 DCSF Newsletter
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Sample contents
DCSF 14-19 policy update
- Certification of spend - Diploma Formula Grant for 2008/09
- Foundation Learning update and actions in 2009/10
- Raising the Participation Age (RPA) information update
Central support package
- LSIS 14-19 Workforce Support
- Functional Skills Support Programme: what’s new
Awarding body support
- ASDAN Update: Briefings on Foundation Learning
- OCR Diplomas update
QCDA support update
- Administering the Diploma [...]
Youth drop-out rate hits new high
From the BBC
Record numbers of young people are not in school, college or work in England, official figures show.
The ranks of 18-24-year-olds considered to be “Neets” - not in education, employment or training - has risen by more than 100,000 in the past year.
Chancellor Alistair Darling has insisted the government is doing all it can [...]
Tories told: Scrap education quangos and save £600m
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2009/aug/13/tory-thinktank-proposes-scrapping-quangos
More than £600m a year could be shaved off England’s schools budget by scrapping some of the biggest education quangos, key advisers will tell the Tories today.
The Centre for Policy Studies, a right-of-centre thinktank that influences Tory policy, has calculated that a Conservative government could save £633m if it abolished at least eight quangos, including the exams [...]
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