Preparing for Christmas break
Recognising colleagues will be unavailable over the festive period, the days between 21 December and 1 January (inclusive) will be designated as non-working days within our systems. This means they won’t count towards your 40-day decision deadline, and applicants will not Reject By Default (RBD) – Track has been updated.
Our last working day of 2020 is Wednesday 23 December, ahead of us reopening on Monday 4 January.
Playback yesterday’s UCAS Teacher Training Annual Review and Transition Update
Yesterday we hosted our annual UCAS Teacher Training event. If you missed any of our sessions, or would like to share these with colleagues, you can now watch them on demand.
- The introduction, presented by Sander Kristel, our Chief Operations Officer.
- UCAS’ operational update delivered by Lynsey Hopkins, UCAS Relationship Manager and Service Transition Lead. Download the slides.
- Data insight: reflection on the 2020 cycle data from Richard O’Kelly, Head of Analytical Data, UCAS. Download the slides.
- The transitional update, delivered by the Department for Education.
ITT update: Publication of 2020 to 2021 census
Last week gov.uk published the ITT trainee number census. The positive results are a testament to the providers who have worked so hard to recruit high quality trainees despite the challenges posed by COVID-19 and the move to remote recruitment.
Many providers are working closely with the DfE to provide continued feedback on the new application service, Apply for teacher training. By October 2021, all providers will need to be ready to use the Apply for teacher training service. If you are not yet using the service and want to find out more get in touch with the DfE team by emailing becomingateacher@digital.education.gov.uk