AP Toolkit
Our existing AP Toolkit has now been enhanced by the publication of four, more substantial, resources addressing themes identified by APs on the CPD Programme. These can be accessed via the Foundation’s website.
Skills for Life Network Team
Communities of Practice
Eight modules have been created within our Canvas platform to support APs following this strand, with 71 digital badges being awarded to date.
Collaborative Projects
Collaborative Project Leads have been exploring how best to evaluate the impact of implementing the AP role across their partnerships.
DfE ends requirement for post-16 dyslexia assessements
The Department for Education has announced an assessment for a specific learning difficulty (which includes dyslexia) undertaken at any age will allow people with dyslexia to apply for support right through to higher education, ending the need for post-16 assessments from February 2019 for those applying for DSA.
Ofsted Annual Report 2017/2018
In this year’s report, Chief Inspector Amanda Spielman highlights concerns around the effectiveness of the government’s policy to require learners who have not achieved a grade 4 in English and/or mathematics to continue studying for a qualification.
Functional Skills – Guided Learning Hours
The Minister of State for Apprenticeships and Skills has outlined the government’s expectation that guided learning hours for reformed Functional Skills qualifications should be set at 55.
Incentive programmes for the recruitment and retention of teachers in FE
This research, commissioned by the DfE and carried out by CooperGibson Research, aimed to identify the strategies or incentives which may most effectively drive recruitment and retention of FE teachers. A key finding was that although financial incentives may help drive recruitment, high-quality mentoring and support are key to retention.
Skills to Drive a Productive Society
This report, researched and written by NOCN in partnership with the Learning & Work Institute, recommends an inclusive National Skills Strategy to increase productivity, improve literacy, numeracy and digital skills levels and help achieve greater social mobility.
EEF Blog: How do you solve a problem like GCSE resits?
What’s the Education Endowment Foundation doing in the post-16 sector to improve outcomes for disadvantaged students? That’s the question programme manager Kathryn Davies tackles here.
Government should invest in reading to combat loneliness
A new report entitled A Society of Readers, from leading think tank Demos and commissioned by national charity The Reading Agency, finds a significant body of evidence to show that reading can help to combat the growing issue of loneliness, as well as acting as a tool to protect future generations from the loneliness epidemic.
Digital Teaching Professional Framework
The Education and Training Foundation has launched the Digital Teaching Professional Framework designed to help the Further Education and Training workforce to become confident and effective users of technology in teaching and learning.
Family learning in prisons toolkit now available
The Evaluation of Family Learning in Prisons toolkit has been developed to empower providers, practitioners and prison staff to demonstrate the impact of family learning programmes on offenders and their families, and to continuously monitor and make improvements to their programmes.