Skills for Life Network TeamYou can now view recordings of the Centre for Excellence in Mathematics conferences held online this summer, when Action Research practitioners shared their work with the wider community. Themes include: augmented reality, mastery and GCSE resits.Â
Adults over the age of 23 in England without a full level 3 qualification will be entitled to one for free from next April, the Government has announced.
Free courses are available through a new online platform hosted on the gov.uk website, called The Skills Toolkit.
Our Functional Skills Resources website has been put together so that everything you want for teaching a session either face to face, via the internet or distance learning is accessible in one place for one price.
Fifty-one providers joined the Outstanding Teaching Learning and Assessment English and maths programme to develop new support models to improve learner engagement.
As part of a phased return to routine inspections, Ofsted will carry out interim visits and monitoring visits to further education and skills providers from 28 September 2020.
An update on the assessment and awarding of GCSE and functional skills maths and English qualifications in 2021.
A round up of current tenders for the provision of education and training services to the post 16 essential skills sector.
Find out more about the Communities of Practice strand of Year 3 of the professional development programme for Advanced Practitioners, commissioned by the Education and Training Foundation and delivered by touchconsulting.
The Education and Training Foundation has commissioned touchconsulting Ltd to establish Practice Development Groups (PDGs) in the East and West Midlands. The PDGs will consist of action learning sets of practitioners who will work together on a short-term, small-scale project to enhance the teaching of English or the embedding of maths or English into a programme area.
The Department for Education has announced that as part of the tutoring fund, it will make a one-off, ring-fenced grant to provide small group tutoring activity for disadvantaged 16-19 students whose studies have been disrupted as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Literacy in lockdown: what has made ‘Yes We Can Read’ work so well at HMP Winchester? And why is its strength so evident in lockdown? This case study illustrates how this one-to-one phonics based reading programme is proving so successful in supporting learners who have previously experienced difficulty learning through traditional approaches.
