Insight Newsletter | March 2023
Your March work-based learning insight newsletter.
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Your March work-based learning insight newsletter.
Sector updates:
Construction Health and Social Care Security and Protective Services
Annual Apprenticeship Conference | 2023
Congratulations and thank you to FE Week on a successful AAC 2023.
The atmosphere and support for apprenticeships was incredible and speaks volumes about how important they are for our future workforce. As stated by Oliver Latham (Pearson’s VP of Strategy & Growth) at the event:
‘Apprenticeships facilitate experimental learning, which is probably the most valuable way of developing skills and changing attitudes and behaviours’.
Watch Oliver's full keynote speech from the event here: AAC 2023 | Pearson keynote speech
Pearson’s Functional Skills Context Review 2023
As part of Pearson's commitment to being learner-centred, we are carrying out a review of the contexts for its Functional Skills Assessments. Two surveys have been created that we ask you to complete and to share with colleagues:
You can find out more about our context review by reading our new Functional Skills Blog here:
Functional Skills Context Review | March blog
There is also a practitioner workshop to discuss our contexts on the 19 April, which you can sign up for here: Pearson Functional Skills Contexts Workshop
Centre Details to the SIA
We have been asked to confirm up-to-date centre contact details for the SIA. This information will be used to populate the 'Search for a Training Provider' facility on the SIA website.
All current listings on the SIA website will be removed, so if you wish to appear on the Training Provider list, please ensure you complete this form by 31 March, 2023.
To learn more about this, alongside further updates within the Security and Protective services sector, click here:
Reminder: Qualification withdrawals, extensions and certification end dates.
Following a review of qualification demand, we have set end dates for the listed qualifications and/or brought forward the existing certification end dates for previously withdrawn qualifications.
The qualifications are summarised in the latest update linked below:
Join Early Education for a conference in the Midlands, celebrating all things 'play in the early years'. Featuring keynotes from Professor Dame Cathy Nutbrown and Debi Keyte-Harland, six ‘pop-up pedagogy’ sessions sharing learning from practice, and much more!
Further details to be released shortly. Book your place here:
Midlands branch - The power of play
Ticket pricing: £5 members; £10 non-members; free to students (verification required).
University of Wolverhampton - Walsall Campus, Gorway Rd, Walsall
Date: 24 June, 2023 | Time: 9:00am – 1:15pm
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