Skills for Life Network TeamReading Groups for Everyone (RGfE), an initiative from The Reading Agency, is the UK’s largest reading group network. Whether you’re already in a reading group, want to join one or are looking to set one up, RGfE can help. You can also join or set up a virtual reading group.
Education Scotland, Glasgow City Council and SCILT (Scotland’s National Centre for Languages) have produced a free online learning resource highlighting the benefits of bilingualism and providing practical strategies that teachers everywhere can use to promote and support bilingualism in their classrooms.
The Outstanding Teaching, Learning and Assessment English programme enabled practitioners to research and develop new approaches for teaching English in the post-16 sector.
OCR intends to withdraw from providing English and Maths Functional Skills qualifications at Entry Level, Level 1 and Level 2 at the end of 2020.
Ofsted are consulting on proposals for revisions to post-inspection arrangements, including how complaints are handled about their work. The proposals, if agreed, will enable any queries or concerns about an inspection to be addressed quickly and before an inspection report is finalised.
A new Nuffield-funded report into the state of mathematics education across England’s further education sector has found that major investment in leadership training and teacher professional development is required to make more significant and sustained improvements.
Further education providers across the country are to benefit from a package of support, worth up to £24 million, so they can continue to recruit, retain and develop excellent teachers, Education Secretary Gavin Williamson has announced today (Wednesday 5th February).
Andy Convery, Research Lead for the Outstanding Teaching, Learning and Assessment (English) programme, writes a review of two very productive writing days.
The final report has been published of a project conducted by Mathematics in Education and Industry (MEI) to look into the feasibility of a new maths GCSE curriculum for post-16 resit students. MEI says the new course would be the same level as the foundation tier of the current maths GCSE, giving students the chance to achieve a grade 4 or 5, and would have a focus on the maths needed for every day life and work.
The Ofsted Annual Report 2018 / 2019, published on the 21st of January 2020, presents inspection findings for further education and skills, early years childcare, schools and social care.
An update on the progress of Essential Digital Skills Qualifications and Digital Functional Skills Qualifications through Ofqual’s technical evaluation process.
The final report of the Leitch review of the UK’s long term skills needs, published in 2006, called for 95% of British adults to have basic numeracy and literacy by 2020.
