Adult Learning Technology Innovation Fund
The Government is investing £5 million to encourage technology companies to develop cutting-edge solutions, utilising AI and automation, to improve the quality of online learning for adults.
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The Augar Review of Post-18 Education
This government review, led by Philip Augar, aims to consider the roles HE and FE should play in meeting the country’s social and economic needs, how they fit together, how they should be funded and whether they are delivering value for students and taxpayers.
New Ofsted inspection framework
Ofsted has published the outcome of the consultation on its new education inspection framework, which will take effect from September 2019.
Government launches EdTech Strategy
The Government’s Education Technology strategy identifies five areas of opportunity where technology can be used to bring about a step change in education, and has a delivery target date of 2021.
Functional Skills Qualification ReformsÂ
This update from Ofqual outlines how functional skills qualifications in maths and English are being reformed, and provides up-to-date information on the progress the reformed qualifications have made through the technical evaluation process.
External Project Evaluation
The external evaluation of the AP Development Programme is now underway and we really appreciate the time you are taking to get involved with it and to help the ETF shape a future offer.
CPD Programme
This strand of activity has enabled a further 73 colleagues to develop their AP skills with the support of a 3-day (part residential) taught programme, a mentor, the Toolkit and Guides and the Canvas Learner Management System.
Collaborative Projects
In this strand, 15 Collaborative Projects were commissioned, each receiving £10K in funding to evaluate the effectiveness of the AP role across a partnership of two or more institutions.Â
Working with ESOL parents through storytelling
This practice exemplar from Glasgow Clyde College shows how a partnership approach helped parents, for whom English is a second or other language, to gain practical skills and knowledge to more effectively engage in their children’s learning through storytelling.
Getting Skills Right: Future-Ready Adult Learning Systems
Many countries need to urgently scale-up and upgrade their adult learning systems to help people adapt to the future world of work, according to a new OECD report.
Call for GCSEs to be discontinued
GCSEs should be scrapped and A-levels should be replaced by a mix of academic and vocational subjects, says Robert Halfon, chairman of the Education Select Committee.
Collaborative Projects
On the 11 January Collaborative Project Leads joined our second online Webinar, led by Joanne Miles, extending and reinforcing approaches to measuring project impact explored during their second training day, in London on the 13 of December.