A research article by Matt O'Leary and Val Brooks which focuses on lesson observation as an illustrative example of attempts to measure the quality of teaching and learning. It draws on data from a national study and examines the application of observation and its impact on further education teachers’ practice.
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 guide focuses on the importance of consulting, communicating and engaging with staff; recognising the valuable role they can and will play in taking forward any changes.
Service design is an approach that can be used to improve Further Education (FE) provider services and strategies. This guide describes how FE providers can apply service design processes and tools to improve recruitment, attainment, achievement and progression figures. The tools and process contained here were put into practice by five FE providers that took part in the Design for Improvement programme. Funded by the Learning, Skills and Improvement Service and designed and delivered by Uscreates, Design for Improvement is a learn-by-doing training programme.
This guide pulls together all the various complex strands of policy and process which go to make up the employability and skills offer to unemployed people. It also provides hints and tips based on real experience to help learning and skills providers make sense of those strands and consider how they might best respond to the challenges posed by the ongoing changes to the Adult Skills Budget, DWP and Education Funding Agency (EFA) programmes.
A step by step guide for providers
This guide is aimed at providers who are considering offering GCSEs in English and
maths. It will also be useful for all providers who would like to adopt a more
coherent approach to delivering English and maths within Apprenticeships in general.
Although the guide mainly focuses on GCSEs, we are aware that functional skills or other English and maths qualifications may be more appropriate for many apprentices.
A step by step guide for providers
This guide is aimed at providers who are considering offering GCSEs in English and
maths. It will also be useful for all providers who would like to adopt a more
coherent approach to delivering English and maths within Apprenticeships in general.
Danny Branley from HMP Dartmoor describes their induction and allocation process and how he has worked with other prisons to develop their processes through a whole organisation approach (collaborative organisational learning) supported by the Education and Training Foundation.
The Sustaining Our Future Framework aims to:
A. Build common understanding of what sustainable development is about, what it means for the sector and why the sector should collectively respond to it.
B. Alert providers to the business benefits of being a sustainable organisation, and how these benefits can be realised in an increasingly demand-led environment
C. Establish a common set of themes for action.
A research report by a sector organisation (National Institute of Adult and Continuing Education (NIACE)) which chose to pursue its goals through practitioner research. The focus was an investigation of the reasons behind school leavers not achieving A*- C grades in maths and/or English in order to inform sector suport for maths and English.
