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Post-16 Education and Apprenticeship Levy Funding
NCFE and the Campaign for Learning have launched a new paper, ‘Post-16 Education and Apprenticeship Levy Funding: next steps for English devolution’ - a volume of expert pieces that consider the future of the post-16 education and training budget from a devolution perspective.
Institutes of Technology announced
The government has named the first 12 Institutes of Technology, which it says will be unique collaborations between universities, FE colleges, and employers including Nissan, Siemens and Microsoft. They will specialise in delivering higher level technical training at level four and five in STEM subjects, including digital, advanced manufacturing and engineering.
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.
Centres for Excellence in Maths
The Centres for Excellence in Maths programme is a national improvement project aimed at delivering a step change in maths teaching up to Level 2 in post-16 settings. This is being undertaken in a range of ways, including the establishment of 21 Centres for Excellence in Maths.
Outstanding Teaching, Learning and Assessment (English)
ESFA funded providers are invited to submit applications to take part in the Outstanding Teaching, Learning and Assessment (English) programme, which aims to systematically improve the teaching, learning and assessment of English. The programme will enable groups of education and training providers to access collaborative development grants worth up to £15,000 for each project. Funding is available for a maximum of ten sector-led collaborative projects, and the closing date for applications is the 29th of April.
Functional Skills Qualifications
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.
This free course from OpenLearn will help you explore how employment affects mental health and what can be done to support people in finding and keeping work.
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.
Disadvantaged families to benefit from free early learning apps
Parents will benefit from interactive learning tools and text message tips to support children’s early language and literacy at home, as part of a society-wide push to make sure children start school ready to learn.
2019 Books Unlocked reading list announced
The prison reading programme, Books Unlocked, has announced the 10 books that participants will have available to read in 2019. Books Unlocked provides free copies of Man Booker Prize-shortlisted titles for participants in UK prisons to read, discuss and keep.
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.
Maths and English condition of funding
From academic year 2019 to 2020, full time students with a grade 2 or below in maths or English can choose to study towards functionalskills level 2 or a GCSE grade 9 to 4. This also applies to part time students who have a grade 3 or grade D GCSE.
Yes We Can Read: a phonics-based programme to develop reading skills
Yes We Can Read is a phonics-based programme developed to teach adult learners to read. The unique photo-alphabet and accessible format make it particularly helpful for learners with dyslexia. Skills for Life Network subscribers benefit from 10% discount on this and on everything from the publisher, Gatehouse Books.
This newly published report, led by US academic Eric Topol, predicts that 90% of all NHS jobs will require digital skills within 20 years, and calls for education providers to take action now to ensure that we are able to gain the benefits that digital healthcare technologies offer.
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.
Further education initial teacher training bursary
The Department for Education has announced that new bursaries for trainee teachers in the FE sector taking a specialist teaching qualification for either mathematics or English will no longer be available from August 2019.
Functional Skills courses online
A scheme to provide free functional skills courses online is being launched by The Open University in partnership with three FE colleges.
New maths GCSE curriculum for post-16 resit students?
A Nuffield Foundation funded project from Mathematics in Education and Industry will investigate the feasibility of a new mathematics GCSE curriculum for post-16 resit students.
This free Toolkit is a practical resource designed to enable those working in Advanced Practitioner roles to further their understanding and development and to drive quality improvements in teaching, learning and assessment across their organisation.
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.
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