Sunderland College is a large Further Education college, established over 120 years ago and spread over five sites. It has a wide range of students and courses, from Higher Education and Advanced Level study to adult and part time courses, and bespoke employer training.
Active learning by staff to deliver active learning for learners Regent College, Leicester is proud to be an inclusive college in the centre of Leicester. Over three quarters of learners are of minority ethnic heritage, in comparison with the corresponding ratio of half for the entire city. We specialise in supporting young people to study at an advanced level, with a majority progressing from here to university.
North Nottinghamshire College is the leading provider of education and training in the North Nottinghamshire area and beyond, with 1300 full time and over 8,000 part time students. The College has a £15 million turnover and employs around 450 staff. For the last two years, the Skills for Life department at NNC have been working hard to raise the profile of functional skills within their organisation from the point of view of the learners, to something that is central to success with their studies.
Barking & Dagenham College is a further education college offering academic and vocational courses to young people and adults. The college is based in Rush Green, Romford, East London. We have a very wide range of learners; currently there is a particular emphasis on working with learners on apprenticeship programmes
Wiltshire CC, have moved from training existing employees via Train to Gain, to running advanced apprenticeships (25+).This is one of a series of provider support case studies.
This project brought together the neighbouring adult education departments of Slough, Windsor and Maidenhead adult learning. a range of adult education classes which include maths, English and ESOL, family learning and vocational courses.
Salford Adult Learning, part of Salford City Council. Salford Adult Learning aims to work with local communities to develop and deliver relevant and accessible opportunities for learning. This is one of a series of provider support case studies.
Oldham Lifelong Learning Service (OLLS) is a local authority adult learning provider delivering a wide range of curriculum both under Adult Safeguarding Learning and Adult Skills budgets. Our belief in the importance of delivering only the best to learners drives continuous improvement – recognised by our Ofsted grading of “outstanding”. To achieve this we all know that sharing good practice and ideas in networks of similar practitioners is important, and this is encouraged.
Hull Training and Adult Education in Hull City Council have come together as one organisation to deliver apprenticeships, adult skills qualifications and community learning to the residents of the city. This has provided both new challenges and new opportunities for the staff and learners. Sharing of expertise has started the journey of working more effectively to provide learning opportunities to learners of all ages. The Adult Education Service has considerable experience of delivering English, maths and ESOL as stand alone qualifications, but not in vocational contexts.
Gateshead Council’s Skills for Life (SfL) team deliver English, maths and ESOL programmes in over 20 community venues throughout Gateshead, particularly focusing on areas of deprivation and targeting hard-to-reach learners with few or no qualifications.
