The project was based at Her Majesty’s Prison and Young Offenders Institution Doncaster. It was led by Novus working with partners including Nacro, Catch22 and other prisons. This Outstanding Teaching, Learning, and Assessment (OTLA) project from 2016/17, aimed to improve the quality of teaching, learning, and assessment by addressing poor attendance in education and work sessions in offender learning. The work included raising awareness of the importance of education to prisoners and staff, and embedding maths and English in vocational contexts.

This report is based on fifteen interviews conducted by the team into the topic of Innovation. They reviewed practices and successes both inside the FE sector and outside it noting the factors that seem to determine success. Three reports written by the contributors analyse the lessons learnt and point to ways in which Innovation might be improved in the FE sector.

Use these self-evaluation tools to check your understanding of the mathematics you are teaching and to explore ideas on how to develop your practice.

A case study of Huddersfield New College (HNC) who received an Ofsted Outstanding grade and was the first college nationally to receive outstanding grades for all aspects of its work.