When FE and specialist colleges join forces to support each other, this really benefits learners. This report provides examples of where this has happened and also examples of how colleges are exploring with local authorities how to make the SEND system work for learners. Lots of food for thought and ideas that you might want to explore in your own college.
Extending your education and training offer to include more children and young people
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.
A case study, along with research resources, exploring a project that aimed to bring together training providers and employers to revisit the current construction curriculum and develop it further to meet the specific skills needs and gaps of local employers.
This action research project, which trialled new exemplar Functional Skills maths and English activities, was part of the ETF Phase 3 Outstanding Teaching, Learning and Assessment programme in 2017/18. The aim was to investigate the newly created activities, to evaluate their effectiveness, and to identify training other teachers might need before using them. The project found that an experienced subject specialist teacher would be able to use the activities but an inexperienced teacher would struggle without guidance.
All seven prisons in the North East of England and Cumbria took part in this NOVUS offender learning Outstanding Teaching, Learning, and Assessment (OTLA 3) project in 2017/18. The aim was to design and implement a “teach-meet” approach to promoting outstanding practice through teach-meet events, focusing on maths, English and ICT. Participants included maths and English teachers, learning support specialists, managers and vocational trainers, representatives from the prison and probation services, and prisoners.
Gateshead College worked in collaboration with Enigma Interactive, DevAcademy, Nutshell Apps and Hedgehog Labs, and four local SMEs in the digital technology sector, to support learners and re-align its curriculum to the latest industry techniques. Teaching staff were given the tools to update their industry knowledge and enhance learner induction through employer-led networking events. This ensured that learners were exposed to a variety of industry practice and business needs, and at the same time, employers gained coaching and mentoring skills.
A partnership website of Unionlearn, ETF and AELP for the workforce development of vocational tutors.
https://unionlearnproject.wordpress.com/unionlearn
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 presentation exploring ideas about how collaborative, international, research-based practice development processes can be used to ensure that skills development better meets the needs of individuals and the economy using a case study of a coalbroative parternship between Bradford College an TATA in Uttar Pradesh India.
