DfE publishes guidance on raising awareness of technical education and apprenticeships

The Department for Education has published guidance for schools and academies on letting pupils in years 8 to 13 hear from a range of technical education and apprenticeship providers. 

From 2 January 2018 schools and academies must provide technical education and apprenticeship providers with access to pupils in years 8 to 13. This is a requirement of the Education Act 1997 (as amended by the Technical and Further Education Act 2017).

This guidance is also for technical education and apprenticeship providers to be aware of changes in their ability to inform pupils about the different courses they have to offer.

This guidance is for:

• all maintained schools and academies
• sixth form colleges
• university technical colleges
• further education colleges
• higher education providers
• apprenticeship providers

Technical education and apprenticeships: raising awareness in schools HTML

Example policy statement on provider access MS Word Document, 23.1KB