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Mon, 19 Oct 2020
The National Retraining Scheme has been integrated with the government’s new £2.5bn National Skills Fund.
Tue, 13 Oct 2020
GCSE and A level exams are still set to go ahead next year, but with a three week delay.
Fri, 02 Oct 2020 11:54
A round up of current tenders for the provision of education and training services to the post 16 essential skills sector.
Fri, 02 Oct 2020
Remote assessment and invigilation of functional skills
A progress update on the remote assessment and invigilation of functional skills.
Thu, 01 Oct 2020
New approaches to teaching English
Ideas and inspiration for new approaches to teaching English in the post-16 sector from the Outstanding Teaching, Learning and Assessment (English) programme. Themes include creating a reading culture, developing resilience, meeting individual learners’ needs and more.
Thu, 01 Oct 2020
In recognition of Black History Month, OpenLearn have pulled together online learning content about inspirational individuals and events for you to explore, including a free course on Black History and articles on Black Arts and Culture.
Tue, 29 Sep 2020
Major expansion in FE funding for adults
Adults over the age of 23 in England without a full level 3 qualification will be entitled to one for free from next April, the Government has announced.
Tue, 08 Sep 2020
Essential Digital Skills qualifications
An update on the new Essential Digital Skills and Digital Functional Skills qualifications.
Mon, 07 Sep 2020
Fifty-one providers have joined the latest Outstanding Teaching Learning and Assessment (OTLA) English and maths project, with teams from across the country joining forces in Zoom rooms to develop new support models to improve learner engagement in English and maths.
Mon, 07 Sep 2020
As part of a phased return to routine inspections, Ofsted will carry out interim visits and monitoring visits to further education and skills providers from 28 September 2020.
Mon, 07 Sep 2020
Maths and English assessment and qualifications
An update on the assessment and awarding of GCSE and functional skills maths and English qualifications in 2021.
Wed, 02 Sep 2020
A round up of current tenders for the provision of education and training services to the post 16 essential skills sector.
Advanced Practitioner Communities of Practice
You are invited to apply for a fully subsidised place on the Communities of Practice strand of Year 3 of the professional development programme for advanced practitioners commissioned by the Education and Training Foundation and delivered by touchconsulting.
Tue, 25 Aug 2020
Practice Development Groups #FEMidlandsETF
The Education and Training Foundation has commissioned touchconsulting Ltd to establish Practice Development Groups (PDGs) in the East and West Midlands. The PDGs will consist of action learning sets of practitioners who will work together on a short-term, small-scale project to enhance the teaching of English or the embedding of maths or English into a programme area.
Mon, 20 Jul 2020
Government to fund catch-up tutoring for 16-19 year olds
The Department for Education has announced that as part of the tutoring fund, it will make a one-off, ring-fenced grant of up to £96M for colleges, sixth forms and all 16-19 providers, to provide small group tutoring activity for disadvantaged 16-19 students whose studies have been disrupted as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Fri, 17 Jul 2020
Literacy in Lockdown - a case study in best practice
What has made ‘Yes We Can Read’ work so well at HMP Winchester? And why is its strength so evident in lockdown? This case study illustrates how this one-to-one phonics based reading programme is proving so successful in supporting learners who have previously experienced difficulty learning through traditional approaches.
Fri, 17 Jul 2020
High value courses for school and college leavers: a 1-year offer
The Education and Skills Funding Agency has now published information on additional funding that will be available for one-year for the delivery of high value subjects to prevent young people from becoming NEET. Subjects include maths, English and digital.
Thu, 16 Jul 2020
A round up of current tenders for the provision of education and training services to the post 16 essential skills sector.
Thu, 16 Jul 2020
Ofsted publishes findings of online learning review
Paul Joyce, Deputy Director for Further Education and Skills at Ofsted, writes about the review into online education during coronavirus in the further education and skills sector.
Wed, 15 Jul 2020
An overview of the government's plan for jobs that includes a boost for worksearch, skills and apprenticeships to support economic recovery.
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