The project focussed on the use of central performance data to drive up organisational curriculum efficiency, increase funding optimisation and improve staff utilisation, presenting data in a user friendly, easy to under-stand model.
This project aimed to convert an existing network of organisations, the Learning and Skills Voluntary Sector Network (LSVN) run by Involve Y&H, to a Virtual Network. This project saves members’ travel expenses, and has wider application, by demonstrating a cost-effective technological solution.
This project shows how Cornwall College implemented the Parabilis electronic procurement marketplace to standardise, automate and reduce the costs associated with the College’s paper-based non-pay transactional process, allowing online trading and transactions between the College and its suppliers.
This case study shows how Shipley College implemented ‘Systems Thinking’ ('beyond LEAN thinking') techniques to achieve considerable savings in processing and staff time, and save over £40,000 per year.
This collaborative partnership project sought to start the process of producing a standard set of health and safety documentation which can be customised for use across all colleges in Sussex and made available across the wider further education (FE) sector.
The project sought to reduce the cost of curriculum delivery by identifying savings using common Qualifications and Credit Framework unit delivery methods across programmes within department teams and also across college departments.
This guide reports on research into how independent learning providers are currently using market intelligence data and provides guidance on what market intelligence data is available and how to become more effective in using it to support both marketing and planning..
The focus of RLBE was on accelerating the diffusion of knowledge and understanding about renewable and low carbon technologies and their potential role is supporting the renewable of rural and coastal economies.
Set in the context of broader organisational strategies, a key element of the project was to encourage and support staff champions initiate change in their curriculum areas. The idea was to encourage ‘bottom-up’ as well as ‘top-down’ change.
What makes one college or provider perform better than another one is a question that many in the FE and skills sector have strived to answer. This report, produced by Tenon Education Training and Skills, considers what we meant by effectiveness and goes on to look at what the features of some of the best providers.
This is a draft version of the Family Learning National Occupational Standards to be used in a consultation.
