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The Department for Education has proposed several changes to apprenticeship funding rules for the 2024/25 academic year, focusing on additional learning support, subcontracting and functional skills for apprentices with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND).

The Society for the Environment celebrated its 20-year anniversary and awards on 4 June.

Registered social housing landlord Kingdom Housing Association has accessed £50,000 of funds through the Social Housing Fuel Support Fund (provided by the Scottish government and delivered through the Scottish Federation of Housing Associations) to support customers with fuel debts.

EngineeringUK’s research report – Graduate Outcomes – uses the latest data from HESA to explore engineering and technology graduates’ activity 15 months on from graduation.

A member of the public who leaned on iron balustrade on a seaside promenade fell four metres onto the beach when the railings gave way. Another member of the public below narrowly avoided being struck by the person and the falling railing.

A report from the National Access & Scaffolding Confederation (NASC) has revealed that 80% of scaffold accidents among its members are due to manual handling, slips, trips and falls from height.

CABE is delighted to announce that the first content to gain CABE Approved CPD
recognition is Coopers Fire’s Active Fire Curtain Barrier webinar.

The Welsh government has published revised versions of the standards, rules and codes for the building control profession. These are the:

The award-winning innovators creating solutions to the biggest climate challenges will be announced on 27 June. This year’s ceremony will be part of London Climate Action Week. Visit b.link/AA_24

RICS has published Code of Conduct Rule 4 guidance for professionals in a bid to boost diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) in the surveying profession.

BSR has published further information for Accountable Persons/Principal Accountable Persons in England on what they must do to comply with S.89 of the Building Safety Act 2022 and how to apply for a Building Assessment Certificate (BAC). This includes what information they need to submit: the resident engagement strategy, information about the mandatory occurrence reporting system and the safety case report.

The Construction Industry Training Board’s Top 100 Influential Women in Construction Awards return for 2024.

The Tall Buildings Conference and Awards 2024 will be held on 25 June. These superstructures are an integral part of modern urban environments, showcasing advancements and technologies.

Leeds Beckett University will work with YORhub to create a supply chain engagement toolkit. This aims to increase the number and diversity of regional SMEs with access to public sector procurement frameworks, reducing the over-dominance of large firms and introducing innovative solutions in a sector that is slow to change. It is a two-year Knowledge Transfer Partnership part-funded by the government through Innovate UK.

From 29 June M+, Asia’s global museum of contemporary visual culture in the West Kowloon Cultural District in Hong Kong, will present I. M. Pei: Life is Architecture, the first major institutional retrospective of Chinese-born American architect Ieoh Ming Pei (1917–2019).

Disadvantaged parents rule out careers in science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) for their children because they think those jobs are “not for somebody like them”.

A joint statement from the Housing Minister Lee Rowley and the Director of Building Safety for the Building Safety Regulator (BSR) Philip White at the GB Health and Safety Executive (HSE) addresses the creation of safety case reports and associated challenges with managing safety in buildings over 18 metres.

Serving as CABE President is a great honour − I am grateful to you, my fellow members, for placing your trust in me. This is the first opportunity for me to officially announce the appointment of Richard Harral FCABE as CABE’s new CEO.

STEM education, skills and workforce planning should be a priority for the UK's next government to support the engineering and technology job surge, according to EngineeringUK.

Richard Harral, former Technical Director at CABE, has been formally announced as its new Chief Executive.