A report describing an investigation into how trainers and experienced teachers in an FE college engaged with promoting Fundamental British Values in teaching and learning, in accordance with national policy
This report presents results of a project to investigate how the labour market outcomes secured by individual learners vary across Further Education (FE) Providers. This programme of investigation identifies good labour market returns to FE learning, and compelling evidence that previous less favourable findings (relating to vocationally oriented learning at Level 2 and below) were a result of data limitations, rather than insignificant value added.
Two reports produced by the two researchers working together at Premier Learning describing their investigation in to supporting ESOL learners who were illiterate in their first language.
A report examining the research evidence on the teaching of English and maths, for the Education and Training Foundation (ETF) by the Centre for the Use of Research and Evidence in Education (CUREE) and the East Midlands Centre for Excellence in Teacher Training (emCETT).
This report describes the proceeding and findings of a sponsored seminar designed to enquire into effective ways of supporting a highly qualified further education workforce in the future, through better use and understanding of current workforce data, and identification of additional data which may be required.
This is a summary of the findings of a consultation conducted by the National Foundation for Educational Research (NFER) for ETF into the nature of provision of STEM subjects in further education
A report outlining a series of seminars organised by the UCL Institute of Education in partnership with the ETF.
The research aimed to explore the perspectives of learning mediators on a new model for working with employers, which was designed to expand the role of apprenticeships, create more diversity in the varieties of apprenticeships on offer, and more closely align apprenticeships with both learner and employer needs
A report describing a research project into the role of the 'clerk to the corporation' of Further Education institutions, particularly in how it relates to ensuring high quality college governance.
These presentations are part of an LSRN discussion workshop covering evidence informed decision making. At the workshop, participants were invited to share their experiences of evidence-use in decision-making in particular contexts and to look for correspondence with the generic messages from the systematic review.
