Simon Lebus speech at the Annual Apprenticeship Conference
Simon Lebus spoke about Ofqual s role in the apprenticeship system.
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26 April 2021 (Transcript of the speech, exactly as it was delivered)
Good morning and thank you for inviting me to speak to you at this year’s apprenticeship conference. It is a great honour to be the first speaker at this marathon five-day event and I am especially glad as it also gives me the opportunity to thank all of you for the huge effort that is being put in to ensuring that high quality apprenticeship assessments continue to be delivered to apprentices during this exceptionally difficult period.
UK’s Sail Training Sector on ‘Knife Edge’, Industry Body Warns
14th February 2021
Jubilee Sailing Trust’s SV Tenacious at the Cowes Small Ships Race in 2018
Credit: Max Mudie/ASTO
While plans are in the offing for a phased restart of tall shipsail training and other outdoor learning activities in the UK after Easter, the sector remains on a “knife edge”.
That’s the message from Andy Robinson, chief executive of the Institute for Outdoor Learning, who as Marine Industry News reports has pilloried the British Government’s guidance amid continued pandemic restrictions as “catastrophic”.
“Our £700m industry is on a knife edge,” Robinson says. “But with the right support and guidance, the sector can still be saved.”
UK Outdoors Submit a Roadmap For Reopening Educational Visits, Warning That Without Urgent Action Sector Will Be Decimated
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89% of sector revenues come from educational visits; £600m of sector revenue has been lost resulting in 6,000 jobs gone and a further 10,000 jobs at risk
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Government-backed Insurance scheme requested to enable future school bookings
LONDON, Feb. 10, 2021 /PRNewswire/ UK Outdoors, the industry body for outdoor learning and activities, announces that, in conjunction with the School Travel Sector Stakeholder Group ( STSSG ), it has submitted to Rt Hon Gavin Williamson, Secretary of State, and the Department for Education, a roadmap for the phased restart of domestic educational visits after Easter, over a year after visits were suspended by government guidance in March 2020.
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media captionEducating pupils in nature releases stress of masks and social distancing, say teachers
The number of teachers being trained to educate children outdoors has gone through the roof because of Covid-19, Natural Resources Wales (NRW) has said.
About 450 teachers have enrolled on its outdoor learning courses in the last two months - compared to 350 for the whole of last year.
The courses recently re-started following Covid restrictions.
They are delivered via Zoom and encourage teachers to use nature to help teach key subjects.
The rise follows a warning by the Institute for Outdoor Learning that a lack of school trips during the pandemic has cost the outdoor education sector £500m and caused the loss of 6,000 jobs.