OTLA Digital Projects North East & Cumbria
Find out how practitioners used action research to discover the most effective ways to spread and embed effective practice in the use of technology to support Outstanding Teaching, Learning and Assessment.
Skills for Life Network Team
Education and Employment Strategy for adult prisoners
The Government has launched a new Education and Employment strategy which sets out new measures to boost prisoners’ skills while in custody and improve their chances of securing work on release.
Maths and English in Apprenticeships: have your say
The Education and Training Foundation will be adding a new interactive webinar to its Maths and English in Apprenticeships series. The new webinar will be available to book from September 2018, and your views are invited on which topic you would like the webinar to explore.
Advanced Maths Premium aims to open more doors for young people
Schools Standards Minister Nick Gibb and Chief Secretary to the Treasury Elizabeth Truss have announced the Advanced Maths Premium, a new fund to help schools and colleges increase the number of students studying maths after GCSE.
Maths and English functional skills: revised subject content
The Government response to the consultation on the revised subject content has been published, along with the revised subject content for Functional skills English and Functional Skills maths.
Blended and face-to-face adult learning: research report
This report, from the National Institute of Economic and Social Research, describes a randomised control trial (RCT) into the relative effectiveness of face-to-face compared to blended learning for adult English and maths learning.
Adult learners of English and maths: longitudinal survey
This research aimed to provide a better understanding of learners’ experiences of adult English and maths courses in terms of skills gain, confidence and other life circumstances such as employment.
What’s the difference between maths and numeracy?
This report from National Numeracy explains what numeracy is, how it ‘hides’ behind maths, and how we can all help to make the UK numerate.
North East and Cumbria OTLA Final Dissemination Event
Practitioners and managers from across the education and training sector joined together at Ramside Hall in Durham on the 18th of December 2017 for an inspiring and uplifting event to celebrate the success of the North East and Cumbria Oustanding Teaching, Learning and Assessment (OTLA) programme.
Discover new materials and approaches to support the teaching and learning of functional skills
This interactive 90-minute webinar will introduce you to a new set of highly engaging materials produced by the Education and Training Foundation to support learners’ Functional Skills (maths and English) development. The materials are appropriate to a range of contexts, including 16-19 learners, apprentices, adult returners, learners in prisons and ESOL, and can be used in both high and low-tech teaching environments.
OTLA North East and Cumbria Calendar
This 2018 calendar, which is available to download and print, was produced by conference artist Graham Ogilvie to celebrate the success of the Outstanding Teaching Learning and Assessment North East and Cumbria programme.
Bitesize Functional Skills
New interactive resources to support functional skills maths and English are now available on the BBC Bitesize website