Digital Skills: teaching prisoners to code
We take a look at current intiatives that aim to enable prisoners to develop coding skills, build their confidence and increase their chances of employment on release.
Main Tag: Digital Skills
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.
Essential digital skills framework
Five categories of essential digital skills for life and work: see the newly published Essential Digital Skills framework, which will form the basis for revised digital skills qualifications, including Functional Skills ICT.
Survey shows only 41% of students feel prepared for the digital workplace
A JISC survey of 37,000 students shows that half of college learners and almost 70% of university students think digital skills will be important for their chosen career, yet only 41% believe their courses prepare them for a digital workplace.
Understanding the Role of Advanced Practitioners in FE
This research outlines the use and perceived impact of advanced practitioners to date, highlights effective practice, and provides practical illustrations and learning points.
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.
Redbridge Institute
We are a successful local adult education service in the London Borough of Redbridge recruiting almost 5000 adult part-time learners annually to a wide variety of programmes including Skills for Life, business, ICT, childcare, education, languages, art and crafts, and health and wellbeing.
Digital literacy funding for adults
The Government has announced it will fully fund IT courses for adults so that digital literacy is put on a similar level to English and Maths. The programme will be funded from the existing £1.5 billion annual Adult Education Budget.
Unlocking Potential: the Coates review
This report from Dame Sally Coates, published in 2016, sets out recommendations for putting education at the heart of the prison regime, unlocking the potential in prisoners and reducing reoffending.
Gateway Qualifications
Our staff enjoy a lively, professional, hard-working team environment. The whole organisation is customer-focused, working with schools, colleges, charities and other learning providers across the country.
BBC First Click
The BBC has launched First Click, a campaign to encourage people to get online. This is a major new media literacy campaign to encourage people in the UK to take the first steps to get online.
Functional Skills
Functional skills are practical skills in English, mathematics and ICT that enable learners to deal with practical problems and challenges.