The updated Functional Skills English subject content, published in February 2018, underpins the qualifications and sets out the purpose, learning aims and outcomes that students need to achieve.
This is a list of all the Future Apprenticeships workshops and webinars on offer January 2018 - March 2018. For more detail about each course and to book, click on the relevant link and go to the ETF Booking system. The support available covers key areas such as understanding of apprenticeship policy, transition and programme planning, delivery of specific apprenticeship standards and improving delivery.
A report exploring the teaching and delivery of maths for learners 16-19 who have struggled with the subject, researching UK and international literature for effective practices and evidence from maths specialist organisations, FE providers, and individual consultants.
This review of policy and practice by stakeholders, including extensive, enquiry oriented engagement with practitioners, examines what more can be done to ensure individuals have the opportunity to increase clarity and transparency and address power imbalances that, left unchecked, can lead to exploitation.
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 website by LSRN outlining the national agenda for research, development and evidence about Vocational Education and Training. Timed to coincide with the creation of a new research centre for VET it also provided an opportunity to review progress towards a National VET Centre as envisaged in the proposals of the Commission on Adult Vocational Teaching & Learning
This zip file contains the first drafts of fifteen flyers summarising the maths and English dimensions of a variety of technical and vocational areas. They were designed to help providers and employers to embed maths and English skills into their study programmes and work experience placements. Although these are still relevant there are now revised flyers that can be found on the Study Programmes Exhibition Site on the Excellence Gateway.
A report and infographic by The JGA Group.
A research report that explores the effects of engaging vocational employers in the design and delivery of study programmes on the progression rates of learners into employment, and their subsequent aspirations for the future and long term career oriented roles.
