The objectives of the pilot were to identify, explore, develop and disseminate, through four practitioner-led collaborative projects, effective approaches to developing student-staff partnerships to enhance staff members’ digital capabilities.
This toolkit is offering a step-by-step guide to creating staff-student partnerships for use by providers and reflects the key findings from four pilots.
A case study of a project that sought to develop a model to support training provider and employer-based mentors, to support their own apprentices towards completion of their apprenticeship.
This case study describes a project between Reaseheath College and agricultural organisations with the goal of reducing the gap between skills and competencies being taught and those required in the agricultural sector.
A case study exploring the collected output of a collaborative educational partnership between educational providers and employers which deployed staff CPD placements to increase subject knowledge and confidence of educators.
This toolkit consists of 10 project summaries, case studies and resources, exploring the implementation of the Apprenticeship Standards.
A toolkit for, and case study exploring, a project that placed teacher staff in industry work placements to accrue experience, then cascaded their experiences to colleagues, and ultimately endeavoured to improved students' learning experiences.
In this Education and Training Foundation National Technical Programme outstanding teaching, learning and assessment (OTLA) project Blackburn, Bolton, and Nelson and Colne colleges trialled an approach to employer engagement to boost the skills of digital teachers and align technical qualifications with the Post-16 Skills Plan and T-levels. The project supported teachers to bring real-world learning into the classroom; deliver an employer-led curri
Abingdon and Witney College worked with industry/vocational experts to deliver outstanding teaching, learning, and assessment (OTLA) in programming for robotics and automation and simultaneously upskill college staff in an area of engineering critical to the future of the sector. Selecting a mandatory, externally assessed BTEC engineering unit which required programming expertise outside of that held by the college’s engineering and computing staff, the project paired an industry expert and a teacher to co-deliver the programming elements of the BTEC unit.
Taking a proactive and creative approach that aimed to unlock potential and transform prisoners' lives, this national technical outstanding teaching, learning and assessment (OTLA) project by Weston College Prison Education Service sought to carve a pathway from entry into prison to entry into an apprenticeship on release from prison. The project focused on the hospitality and catering vocational sector.
