LSN Phase 1.0 - Publication

DfEE consultation on Modern Apprenticeships

In June 2000, the government published proposed reforms to the Modern Apprenticeship framework as part of its review on post-16 education. The reforms have the potential to raise the quality and statu...

Preparing for accreditation: colleges and self-assessment

A companion publication to self-assessment for improvement.

Equal Opportunities Newsletter June 2000

The Equal Opportunities Network newsletter June 2000.

Following the money

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Funding FE in England and Wales : a simple guide to funding methodology

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Partnerships for skills : investing in training for the 21st century

Partnerships and strategic alliances between employers and providers can secure a better match between the skills needed for competitiveness and their development than a purchaser/supplier relationshi...

College Research : a journal for further education and lifelong learning. 2000 Volume 3 number 2

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Clicks and mortar : learning centres - locating learning and skills?

Colleges are not the only organisations interested in learning centres. Learning centres are at the heart of many current government and other initiatives to bring the information age into education, ...

Student transport : unfair or just unequal?

Student transport is ready to move into a higher gear. For most colleges, support is a hardship issue but for more rural colleges it is also a question of choice; Student rural colleges may even organ...

Developing skills : realistic work environments in Further Education

Further education has a long tradition of providing realistic work environments (RWEs) that offer opportunities for training and assessment. But what is their contribution to skills development? This ...

Through the looking glass - FE colleges, HE inspection systems

Colleges in the FE sector that offer HE courses are currently finding themselves exposed to something, which could either be considered a threat or a provider of opportunity, in the form of the subjec...

National Strategy for Neighbourhood Renewal : A framework for consultation

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Learning communities : strengthening lifelong learning through practice

This paper sets out details of work being carried out by Demos and the Learning and Skills Development Agency to examine how new institutional structures for supporting lifelong learning can develop i...

Back on track : Successful learning provision for disaffected young people. Summary report and recommendations

This report summarises a study commissioned and funded by the DfEE. The recommendations are those of the Learning and Skills Development Agency (formerly FEDA). The DfEE is expected to respond to the ...

The Connexions Service : professional framework for personal advisers

The Connexions Service: professional framework for personal advisers Proposals for consultation If you have any comments about this document please contact Lynn Hull, Tel: 01823 345 950

The challenge to sixth-form funding : financial model for new formula

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Management accounts for FE colleges : a guide for governors and senior managers

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Back on track : Successful learning provision for disaffected young people. Full research report

The purpose of this study was to develop a set of key principles for effective working with disadvantaged young people. 'Disadvantage' was defined to include young people aged 16-18 who are not in edu...

Quality improvement in the work-based sector- Summary report

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Learning 2010

'Learning 2010' started with a question: 'what will be the implications of technology for teaching and learning?'. Straightaway, the idea generated tremendous interest from all sides. From educational...

Raising Quality and Achievement newsletter (December 2000)

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Differential achievement : what does the ISR profile tell us?

What is the relation between low rates of student retention and achievement and the ISR profiles of the students? Is there one? or can the majority of differences be explained by geodemographic facto...

How colleges are working with small businesses

Survey Report

Costing budgeting and financial reporting. A report on current practice in the further education sector

A report on current practice in the further education sector

The FE college and its communities

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National strategy for neighbourhood renewal - A framework for consultation

The Further Education Development Agency (FEDA) welcomes the Government’s National strategy for neighbourhood renewal consultation document and the key role of learning and skills set out in the strat...

Engaging with the learning gateway : a guide for colleges.

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Raising Quality and Achievement newsletter (March 2000)

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FENTO standards in action

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Outcomes of adult learning - taking the debate forward

How we recognise and value the broader outcomes of adult learning is a matter for continuous debate. The Learning and Skills Council will have responsibility for a wide range of learners who will lear...

Issues in continuing professional development : towards a systematic framework

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Learning to succeed : post-16 funding and allocations (first technical consultation paper).

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The new learning market

Major reforms to the post-16 sector were set in the White Paper 'Learning to succeed'. Following its publication, FEDA and IPPR held a series of joint seminars to consider how the reformed sector woul...

FEDA commentary - Learning and skills- opportunities or threats for disabled learners.

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The Learning and Skills sector : the emerging agenda

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VAT and FE (by the College Finance Directors' Group)

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The challenge to sixth-form funding : an introduction to government proposals to change the way sixth forms are funded

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FE college disability statements: an evaluation

The report summarises the main findings of the evaluation. This publication is of relevance to anyone who is involved with the writing and reviewing of college disability statements. This could includ...

For better or worse – the influence of FE franchising on learning

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Competence and competitiveness - colleges and local economic development

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Learning from Continuing Professional Development

Raising achievement : a guide to successful strategies

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Guidance on the Additional Support Mechanism CRM 201

Updated 14th June 2000 - Guidance on the Additional Support Mechanism (ASM) CRM 201 (CRM201)

Raising Quality and Achievement newsletter (July 2000)

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It’s a people thing : demystifying college information

This plain English guide to college information systems (CIS) is intended to give colleges practical information and examples of good practice. Aimed at college staff at all levels, it shows some of t...

Self - assessment for improvement

How can you ensure that self-assessment leads to a measurable improvement in standards? This book, based on research and development activity undertaken by FEDA's quality programme team in 1998 and 19...

Inspecting post-16 education and training- Informal consultation on the common inspection framework

Update Summer 2000

This issue focuses on assessment with a feature on assignment writing. We also publish the grading points for all GNVQs and Vocational A levels.

Aiming at achievement

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Improving college effectiveness : raising quality and achievement

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Understanding the Ofsted schools inspection process

The first in a series of commentaries on Quality, 'Understanding the Ofsted schools inspection processes' addresses questions raised by colleges and other partners in the sector about how the Ofsted f...

Education Maintenance Allowances

On 30th March 2000, the government announced plans to extend its Education Maintenance Allowance (EMA) programme. The scheme involves payments to students aged 16-19 from low income families who are a...

Compulsory teaching qualifications for FE teachers

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Spotlight on learning : Basic Skills

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Widening participation newsletter (Issue no. 3, April 2000)

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Effective Management of Part-Time Lecturers

Disapplication of the National Curriculum

Developing a New Structure to Provide an Effective Delivery Mechanism for Education Business Links

2000 Secondary Schools and College Performance Tables

Response from the Further Education Development Agency

Evaluation of the additional support mechanism. A research project for the FEFC [Final Report]

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The Excellence Challenge

The Learning and Skills Council Funding Flows and Business Processes

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Making it work

Published in November 2000 when FEDA became the Learning and Skills Development Agency, this publication outlines the Agency's remit and aims for 2000/2001. It contains information on all current area...

Local Strategic Partnerships and the Neighbourhood Renewal Fund

Local Strategic Partnerships and the Neighbourhood Renewal Fund - This is FEDA's response to the DETR's consultation papers on these topics. The consultation papers to which these responses are writt...

The LSDA Saving for Learning Project : A scanning study of saving for learning

The LSDA Saving for Learning Project is intended to complement the research programme on personal funding of post-16 education and training, covering post-16 further education and training, higher edu...

Review of the National Occupational Standards Development Programme

Response from the Learning and Skills Development Agency

School sixth form funding : Technical consultation paper

Response from the Learning and Skills Development Agency

ESF Co-financing arrangements

Preparing Community Strategies, DETR

Raising standards in Post-16 learning

ESOL draft curriculum

DfEE Consultation - Learning and Skills Bill : Principles for the Approval of Qualifications for those under 19 in England

Response from the Further Education Development Agency

An evaluation of non-schedule 2 pilot projects

The aim of the study, commissioned by the Further Education Funding Council (FEFC), was to provide an evaluation of the outcomes of non-schedule 2 pilot projects funded in 1999Œ2000. The evaluation wa...

Disability in education [FEDA response]

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Foundation degrees [FEDA response]

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Local Government Association - Independent Commission on the Organisation of the School Year [Response from FEDA]

Briefing [News from FEDA] May 2000

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Briefing [News from FEDA] April 2000

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Reducing bureaucratic burdens on lecturers

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Briefing [News from FEDA] March 2000

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Briefing [News from FEDA] February 2000

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College Research : a journal for further education and lifelong learning.Winter 2000 Volume 4 Number 1

College Research is available by subscription. Contact the Learning and Skills Development Agency for further details. Articles on: Tomorrows family Learning together Family literacy

College Research a journal for further education and lifelong learning. 2000 Volume 3 number 1

College Research Vol3 issue 1

ILT development : creating value for money

In a time of tight budgets and expanding demands for ILT provisions in FE colleges, the Learning and Skills Development Agency commissions research into how colleges invest in ILT, and whether the ben...

College improvement : the voice of teachers and managers

What is college improvement ? It is not about re-inventing teaching of principles of curriculum design but rather about how to select and apply these principles in specific contexts. It is about putt...

Successful tutoring : good practice for managers and tutors

This publication is aimed at senior managers who wants to improve student achievement, or are involved in tutoring in their college. It looks at how the tutor has moved from a largely autonomous posit...

Putting educational research to use through knowledge transformation : keynote lecture to the further education research network conference. Coventry December 12 2000

Charles Desforges is a prominent and highly influential advocate for more, and more relevant, educational research. In his keynote speech at the FERN conference of December 2000, presented in this pub...

Raising Quality and Achievement newsletter (June 2001)

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Quality matters November 2001

Newsletter for the Raising Quality and Achievement Programme

Clerks training materials : a professional development programme for corporation clerks in FE colleges

A professional development programme for corporation clerks in FE colleges. The pack includes: Users guide, Introduction, Values and ethical framework, The wider legal framework, Working relationships...

Skills for life : statement on the national strategy for improving adult literacy and numeracy skills

The Learning and Skills Development Agency welcomes the introduction of a coherent national funding and delivery strategy for adult literacy, numeracy and English for speakers of other languages. This...

National educational research forum consultation

This report is a response to the National Educational Research Forum's consultation on a national research strategy. The Learning and Skills Development Agency has worked with the Forum as part of its...

Developing responsiveness in vocational education and training

To remain competitive the UK's current and future workforce will need to keep developing new skills and making use of more and different information. This demands an increased capacity on the part of ...

Recognising and validating outcomes of non-accredited learning : A practical approach

This publication describes the development work from summer 2000 of a group of practitioners who have been active in analysing the issues and identifying the strategies for recognising student progres...

Value added in vocational qualifications

This research report explores the relationship between prior attainment and subsequent achievement in GNVQ's and AVCE's. It makes a number of recommendations to teachers, curriculum managers, college ...

College Research : a journal for further education and lifelong learning. Spring 2001 Volume 4 number 2

The new learning and skills era - looking back looking forward. In this issue - John Harwood : challenges for the LSC. Terry Melia : quality assurance plus innovations from Bournville, Carmarthenshire...

Higher education in FE colleges

The growth of higher education in FE colleges is at the centre of government policy to expand undergraduate education at levels below the first degree and to incorporate this provision in a new vocati...

Developing leading-edge staff in vocational education and training

FE practitioners, especially specialist VET staff, need lifelong learning as much as their students - how else are they to meet the challenge of the skills and competitiveness agenda? In this publicat...

Attracting new learners : a literature review

This report, prepared by the Institute for Employment Studies, reviews UK and international literature about initiatives to stimulate demand for learning. Commissioned by the Learning and Skills Devel...

Getting employers involved : Improving work-based learning through employer links. Report and good practice guidelines

Drawing on case studies of practice by Nacro and YMCA Training, these guidelines are designed to help training providers and employers assess and improve the quality and effectiveness of employer invo...

Connexions service funding : a consultation paper

This publication sets out the Learning and Skills Development Agency's response to a consultation paper published by DfEE 'Connexions service funding : a consultation paper - January 2001'. The full t...

Briefing - May 2001

Briefing - the monthly newsletter with news and views on the new learning and skills sector. Read about new development projects, opinion pieces on the current hot topics and profiles of leading think...

Briefing - July 2001

College Research : a journal for further education and lifelong learning. Summer 2001 Volume 4 number 3

Teaching and learning - transforming cultures. In this issue - Denis Gleeson : transforming learning cultures in further education, Stephen Grix : post-16 inspection. Plus innovations in teaching and...

Learning and Skills Research : a journal for further education and lifelong learning. autumn 2001 Volume 5 number 1

(formerly 'College Research'). Impact - making a difference through research

Listening to staff

This book contains the results of the Learning and Skills Development Agency's survey of staff opinions about their jobs in colleges. Although there is dissatisfaction, the results clearly show that s...

Centres of Vocational Excellence : heralding a new era for further education

This publication sets out the Learning and Skills Development Agency's response to 'Centres of Vocational Excellence : heralding a new era for further education', published for consultation by DfEE (n...

Culture and creativity : the next ten years A Green Paper from the Department of Culture, Media and Sport

This publication sets out the Learning and Skills Development Agency's response to the green paper 'Culture and creativity : the next ten years issued for consultation by the Department of Culture, ...

Self - assessment and development planning for adult and community learning providers

Adult and community learning (ACL) services need to meet the challenges of the post-16 learning sector. New requirements from the Learning and Skills Council and Adult Learning Inspectorate mean they ...

Curriculum Online : a consultation paper

This publication sets out the Learning and Skills development Agency's response to the 'Curriculum online consultation' published by the DfEE in April 2001. The original consultation document can be f...

Social Exclusion Unit consultation on young runaways

This publication sets out the Learning and Skills Development Agency's response to the 'Young Runaways' consultation published by the Social Exclusion Unit in March 2001. The original consultation do...

Supporting adult learners : the need for a new approach

Financial support for adult learners is patchy and inconsistent. Initiatives show access funds and Education Maintenance Allowances work well but more is needed. This publication considers possible ne...

Briefing - September 2001

The monthly newsletter of the Learning and Skills Development Agency, Briefing contains up to the minute news and views on the learning and skills sector with useful web sites, stimulating quotes, int...

Distributed open learning and distance learning : how does e-learning fit?

The terms 'distance learning', 'open learning' and 'flexible learning' are often used interchangeably. Now there is also 'e-learning'. But what does each term mean, and how do they differ? A clear un...

Evaluation of 3 and 6 hour courses

New funding arrangements for adult learners announced by the Further Education Funding Council for England (FEFC) in spring 2000, have assisted institutions in offering new short courses - including b...

Observation of teaching and learning in adult education : how to prepare for it, how to do it and how to manage it

Adult and community services need to meet the challenges of the new post-16 learning sector, which puts 'the learner at the heart of everything'. A system for observing teaching and learning is a powe...

Briefing - October 2001

Briefing - the monthly newsletter with news and views on the learning and skills sector. Read about new development projects, opinion pieces on the current hot topics and profiles of leading thinkers...

Briefing - November 2001

Listening to learners

The 'satisfied' customer is central to success in both the public and private sectors. Customers of adult and community learning (ACL) providers include staff and learners, potential learners, funding...

Stimulating demand for learning : An ideas paper on attracting new learners

The UK needs to attract more people into education and training. A priority for the new Learning and Skills Council is to promote learning - increasing and widening participation. But how do we do thi...

Improving student retention and achievement : what do we know and what do we need to find out?

Why do some students in post-compulsory education abandon courses? And why do others not achieve their full potential? What can colleges do to improve student retention and achievement? This report re...

Governance today : rising to the challenge of raising quality and achievement

How will the Learning and Skills Council and the Common Inspection Framework affect the work of college governors? The new local planning and funding framework and the increased focus on teaching and...

College Websites: Intranets on-line learning virtual learning environments: A report on current practice in the Learning & Skills Sector (colleges) : Survey of England and Wales 2001

The aims of this project are: To map the ways in which colleges are using web technologies and to evaluate the contribution and potential contribution, of the internet and intranet applications in ach...

Improving colleges through action research

Colleges in this study have abandoned the search for a simple solution. Instead, they have used the action research process to bring about improvements to student retention, achievement, and other ind...

Leadership revisited : The role of the course team leader

What is the role of the course tam leader? And what do they actually do? Has the introduction of the Common Inspection Framework affected this role? These questions are examined in this publication. ...

Going the distance

Distance learning's unique capacity to meet the individual needs of a wide range of learners and thus to widen access to learning makes it an extremely important strand of provision in the new post-16...

Basic skills and key skills : making the relationship work

Summary of findings from a joint project by the Basic Skills Agency and the Learning and Skills Development Agency

Policy unit briefing paper 1 - Pre-budget report 2000

Building long-term prosperity for all

Policy unit briefing paper 10 - Chancellors Budget statement 7 March 2001

Chancellors Budget statement 7 March 2001

Policy unit briefing paper 11 - Learning and Skills Council : strategic framework to 2004

Draft corporate plan for consultation

Policy unit briefing paper 12 - Culture and creativity : the next ten years

Department of Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS), March 2001

Policy unit briefing paper 13 - Building a strategy for children and young people

Published by the Children and Young People's Unit 22 March 2001

Policy unit briefing paper 14 - Skills for life : The national strategy for improving adult literacy and numeracy skills

Published by the Department for Education and Employment, March 2001

Policy unit briefing paper 15 - House of Commons Select Committee on Education and Employment. Higher Education : Student retention

Published March 2001

Policy unit briefing paper 16 - Local strategic partnerships - Government guidance

Published by the Department of the Environment Transport and the Regions March 2001

Policy unit briefing paper 17 - Towards full employment in a modern society

Green Paper published by the Department for Education and Employment, the Department for Social Security and HM Treasury, March 2001

Policy unit briefing paper 18 - The government’s response to the report of the library and information commission - empowering the learning community

Joint publication by DfEE and DCMS, March 2001

Policy unit briefing paper 19 - Savings and assets for all The Modernisation of Britain’s Tax and Benefit System, Number Eight

Published by the treasury April 26 2001

Policy unit briefing paper 2 - Our towns and cities : The future

Delivering an urban renaissance

Policy unit briefing paper 20 - Learning and Skills Council strategic framework to 2004 corporate plan

The Learning and Skills Council Corporate Plan was published in July 2001, following a consultation on the draft. It can be found on the LSC website at www.lsc.gov.uk/pdf/corplancombine.pdf. This ...

Policy unit briefing paper 21 - Schools : achieving success : White Paper from the Department for Education and Skills

The white paper 'Schools : Achieving Success' was published by the DfES in September 2001. This briefing paper identifies key points of relevance for the post-16 education and training sector.

Policy unit briefing paper 22 - The learning country : a comprehensive education and lifelong learning programme to 2010 published by the National Assembly for Wales - September 2001.

The Learning Country, consults on which of the Schools White Paper proposals should be enacted in Wales The paper was published in September and can be found on the internet

Policy unit briefing paper 3 - Colleges for excellence and innovation

Statement by the Secretary of State for Education and Employment on the future of Further Education in England, DfEE November 2000

Policy unit briefing paper 5 - The Learning and Skills Council : Strategic priorities

Remit letter from the Secretary of State for Education and Employment to the chair of the Learning and Skills Council 9 November 2000

Policy Unit Briefing Paper 6 - A New Commitment to Neighbourhood Renewal : National Strategy Action Plan

Policy Unit Briefing Paper 6 - A New Commitment to Neighbourhood Renewal: National Strategy Action Plan

Policy unit briefing paper 7 - House of Commons Education & Employment Select Committee

Higher Education access.

Policy unit briefing paper 8 - Opportunity for all in a world of change

A white paper on enterprise skills & innovation

Policy unit briefing paper 9 - Schools building on success : Green paper

Green paper published by the Department for Education and Employment February 2001

Formal Consultation on the Common Inspection Framework

Interim provider performance indicators for use by the LSC

How to work with microbusinesses

The ADAPT FESME virtual college / university (VCU) project undertook the first national survey of FE college’s work with local small businesses in October 1998. The survey pinpointed the several areas...

Governance issues - raising student achievement

How have governing bodies responded to the challenge of raising standards? What issues are raised in the process? What good practice can be identified? These are the issues addressed in this publicati...

Sustaining excellence

What are the characteristics of colleges that have performed well and gained top grades over more than one inspection round? This book identifies common features that have enabled high-performing coll...

Raising Quality and Achievement Newsletter (February 2001)

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Back on track : Successful learning provision for disaffected young people. Good practice guidelines

These guidelines offer useful suggestions on good practice for anyone helping to provide learning opportunities for disaffected young people. Based on the Learning and Skills Agency's 'Back on track' ...

Searching for excellence in FE colleges

Searching for excellence investigates the factors which enable high quality vocational provision to thrive. It examines the work of eight colleges where, to some degree, provision reflects the current...

Great expectations : setting targets for students

Great expectations:setting targets for students

Lifelong learning : Is there a logic for loans?

The government's consultation document 'The Learning Age' identifies the need for a substantial increase in investment in education and training, but also emphasises that public resources are limited....

Leadership Issues : raising achievement

This publication looks at leadership, and how it affects student achievement in FE colleges. The four authors approach the subject from different angles, between them covering literature on the subjec...

www.raising achievement : Internet research resources on raising achievement in post-compulsory education

This report is designed to help practitioners and researchers find and use internet-based resources that deal with raising achievement. It contains a guide to useful research sources and organisations...

Closing the achievement gap : Colleges making a difference

The report aims to clarify the relative influence on student achievement of institutional performance and of demographic factors, and to guide colleges on effective strategies to raise achievement.Its...

Lessons learned on raising quality and achievement

Since April 1999 the Raising Quality and Achievement Programme has been supporting colleges through: Research and evaluation Benchmarking and information A quality improvement team Development project...

Briefing - February 2001

Briefing - February 2001 - What can the US learning boom teach us? asks Ursula Howard - Motivation is the driver

Briefing - March 2001

Briefing - March - 2001 - Hard thinking ahead - Post-16 must continue its 'second-chance role'.

Briefing - April 2001

Learning communities : strengthening lifelong learning through practice : Seminar 3 notes

A note of the final seminar in the Learning Communities seminar series run jointly by LSDA and Demos. 'Learning communities: a framework for funding, planning and accountability'. Held 4 June 2001

National Educational Research Forum Consultation

DfEE Principals for approval of external qualifications for over 19s

Social Exclusion Unit Consultation - Reducing re-offending by ex-prisoners

In progress

Chief Executive’s Policy Seminar : FE Governance in the context of the Learning and Skills Act

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The future of governance in FE colleges

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Learning Communities : strengthening lifelong learning through practice: Background Paper Seminar 1

Background Paper. Seminar 1: Communities, Learning and Contemporary Society

Learning Communities : Strengthening lifelong learning through practice

Back Ground Paper. Seminar 2: Local Organisations and community learning. Learning communities: the secret to their success

Learning Communities : Strengthening lifelong learning through practice: Seminar 2 Notes

Seminar 2 Notes Local organisations and community learning Held 6 March 2001

Learning Communities : Strengthening lifelong learning through practice: Seminar 1 Notes

Seminar 1 Notes Communities, learning and contemporary society Held 25 January 2001

Learning Communities : Strengthening lifelong learning through practice

Seminar 3: Learning Communities A framework for funding, planning and accountability

The future development of the training provider infrastructure : Policy Seminar - 3rd July 2001

Background paper for a policy seminar held on 3 July 2001 on the future development of the training provider infrastructure. The seminar shared thinking from the Department for Education and Skills, ...

Connexions Partnerships : A framework for inspection

The consultation document was published by Ofsted in June 2001. It can be found on the Ofsted website here.

Funding community groups : response from the Learning and Skills Development Agency

Learning and Skills Development Agency's response to the consultation document issued by the Government's Active Community Unit, on behalf of the Inter-Departmental Working Group on Resourcing Comm...

Chief Executive's Policy Seminar : The future development of the training provider infrastructure Tuesday 3rd July 2001

Notes of a policy seminar held on 3 July 2001 on the future development of the training provider infrastructure. The seminar shared thinking from the Department for Education and Skills, Employment S...

Quality Assurance in higher education : Proposals for consultation

LSDA's response to a consultation by HEFCE and partners, published in July 2001. The original consultation document can be found on the HEFCE website here

Race Relations (Amendment) Act 2000 - Consultation

Response from the Learning and Skills Development Agency

16-19 organisation and inspection : a consultation document from the Department for Education and Skills

The consultation on 16-19 organisation and inspection was issued by the DfES in September 2001. The consultation document can be found on the internet

Howard Davies Review of Enterprise and the Economy in Education: Call for Evidence

The LSDA submission to the Howard Davies Review of Enterprise and the Economy in Education. Further details of the call for evidence can be found on the internet ...

Policy unit briefing paper 4 - Our countryside

A fair deal for rural England

Transforming Learning : Changing Lives Ufi Limited Strategic Plan for consultation 2002-2005

Ufi's draft strategic plan for 2002-2005 was published in November 2001and can be found on the internet here.

Principles for the approval in England of external - qualifications for persons aged 19 and over

Towards inclusion - civil rights for disabled people

Response from the Learning and Skills Development Agency

Recognising and validating outcomes of non-accredited learning

This publication describes the developmental work of a group of practitioners who sought to identify strategies for recognising learning progress on non-accredited programmes. Seven case studies make ...

Promoting social inclusion and widening participation via distributed and electronic learning : A review of the research evidence

This review has identified many local, national and international plans and strategies that are seeking to increase inclusion in society and participation in lifelong learning through the application ...

Quality Matters (February 2002)

Newsletter for the Raising Quality and Achievement Programme

TEACHING OBSERVATION

Pack contaning booklet and video cassette on Improving One-to-One Tutorials

Making the best match : improving the quality of pre-course information, advice and guidance

Pre-entry information,advice and guidance are crucial to helping learners choose the right programme of study. Focusing on FE and sixth form colleges, and community education this report provides a sn...

First impressions count : How effective recruitment and admissions can encourage students to stay at college

How can college attract and retain post-16 students in the face of intensive local competition? Recent research shows that first impressions really do count - experience of the college and its staff d...

Attracting new learners : international evidence and practice

You may enjoy learning, but how do you convince others that learning can be useful and fun ? How can the UK attract more people into education and training? What can we learn from other countries? An ...

LSDA Reports: The impact of Education Maintenance Allowances

Since 1999 some Schools and Colleges have been piloting Education Maintenance Allowances (EMA's), testing whether extra funds encourage more young people from low-income families to participate in ful...

The impact of Individual Learning Accounts

This report was based on research that was completed before the government announced the suspension of the ILA scheme. The LSDA belives, however, that the messages in the report for providers and poli...

Closer by degrees : the past present and future of higher education in further education colleges

This analytical account by Gareth parry and Anne Thompson helps to explain the many silences, confusions and ambiguities which have accompanied this policy history over the last 15 years. Written for ...

Learning to Last - skills, sustainability and strategy

Learning to Last is a joint venture from the Learning and Skills Development Agency, Forum for the Future and the government's Sustainable Development Education Panel. Through a seminar series and thi...

Briefing - February 2002

Loans for lifelong learning

In 2001 the Learning and Skills Development Agency produced a short publication entitled 'Lifelong learning - is there a logic for loans?' (Fletcher 2001). It sought to examine the arguments for and a...

Equality and diversity in adult and community learning : a guide for managers

This practical guide for ACL mangers explains how to address equality and diversity issues in the context of the Learning and Skills Council remit and the Common Inspection Framework. It outlines new ...

Involving tutors and support staff in the adult and community learning quality agenda

This booklet shows how managers in adult and community learning can enable tutors and support staff to contribute to quality improvement within their organisations. It outlines the new policy context ...

Fit for purpose : self assessment for small providers

Providers of adult and community learning (ACL) range from large multi-purpose agencies to small community organisations, all striving to provide a high-quality service. Quality improvement systems ap...

Support for the costs of learning

This report outlines the range of student support services available, shows how the provision of support can contribute to student success, identifies good practice and explains how systems for evalua...

Making quality sense : a guide to quality, tools and techniques, awards and the thinking behind them

Quality management is now part of all sectors and its language has become part of everyday business speech. However, the terminology can be off-putting for people who are not part of the quality profe...

Good practice in sustainable development education : Executive summary

Executive summary including recommendations of research undertaken into Sustainable Development Education (SDE) projects undertaken in FE colleges and partnerships.

Raising achievement at levels 1 and 2

The Learning and Skills Council and the inspectorates all emphasise the need to improve retention and achievement on programmes at Levels 1 and 2. This report draws on the work of over 20 colleges to ...

Mapping research into the delivery of work-based learning

This report summarises findings from research into work-related education and training undertaken by the Further Education Development Agency (FEDA) and the Quality and Performance Improvement (QPID) ...

The learning country : a paving document from thr National assembly for Wales

This publication sets out the Learning and Skills Development Agency's response to the National Assembly for Wales Paving Document on education and lifelong learning, 'The learning country' published ...

The changing face of college governance

This report arises from the Learning and Skills Development Agency (LSDA) research project on 'the changing face of college governance'. This was a major study, undertaken in 2000 and 2001, which aim...

Citizenship News : Issue 1 - September 2002

The Newsletter of the 16-19 Citizenship Development Programme. In this issue; 'citizenship from four perspectives', 'active citizenship by accident or design?', 'campaigning in the community', 'our is...

Proposals for the development of new arrangements for the inspection of education and training in Wales.

This paper sets out the Learning and Skills Development Agency's response to the consultation paper 'proposals for the development of new arrangements for the inspection of education and training in W...

Briefing - April 2002

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Benchmarking for the learning and skills sector

Benchmarking - or 'the art of stealing shamelessly' - is a way of making the most of others' expertise. By comparing your own processes and practices with another's, you can identify what should be i...

Pride or prejudice? College teachers' views on course performance

What do teachers think makes a difference to how their students succeed? This report is based on in-depth interviews with over 50 teachers about their courses, students, colleges and teaching practic...

Encouraging higher recruitment to technician engineering training

This publication presents the reports of six case studies based on a variety of providers of engineering training, in which young people, their tutors and training providers were asked what constitute...

Matching skill needs to training in the electrotechnical industry - Project final report

This is a summary report of a project about skills in the electrotechnical industry in two geographical areas of England – the eastern region, and Liverpool with the Wirral in the north-west. The proj...

Improving colleges : Why courses and programmes improve or decline over time

This report builds on the qualitative findings discussed in 'Pride or prejudice: college teachers' views on course performance'. The focus here is on the detailed statistical analysis of the survey r...

Saving for Learning : Strand 2 : An international comparison

An international comparison of education systems and patterns of saving for learning in Denmark, Japan, New Zealand and the USA. The report reviews the evidence in each country, identifies policies th...

Working towards skills : perspectives on workforce development in SMEs

This report provides a commentary on how workforce development has emerged as a major government priority, and on related initiatives and interventions attempting to promote it. It concentrates on the...

Learning and Skills Research Centre News : issue 1

Newsletter of the Learning and Skills Research Centre The Learning and Skills Research Centre aims to be an authoritative source of knowledge and ideas, informing and influencing the future developmen...

Research Strategy 2002-5 Influencing the future: informing policy and improving practice through research

The LSRC research strategy follows extensive consultation, debate and consideration of existing knowledge and research activity in post-16 learning. This document sets out our vision and aims for the ...

Making the grade : a report on standards in work-based learning for young people

The Learning and Skills Development Agency has been conducting research in to the reasons for the deterioration in the grades awarded to work based learning provision from Adult Learning Inspectorate ...

Learning in progress : recognising achievement in adult learning

Adult and community learning providers need to respond to the needs and values of their learners, who may have deliberately chosen non-accredited learning, and also to national priorities and standard...

Using quality schemes in adult and community learning : a guide for managers

This publication examines ACL and quality schemes. It notes the difficulties faced by LEA ACL services in delivering consistent quality, reviewing how quality improvement has been supported and the me...

Evaluation of 3 and 6 hour courses : stage 2

The second of two reports evaluating the impact of the introduction of funding for FE courses of 3 or 6 hours in length. The first report is available

LSDA Reponds : Developing the role of school support staff

The DfES published its consultation paper on Developing the Role of School Support Staff in October 2002. The paper can be found on the internet

LSDA Responds : DfES Higher Education Issues Papers

The DfES published a series of short Higher Education Issues Papers in November 2002, as part of their preparation of an HE strategy, expected early in 2003. The papers can be found on the internet ...

Entitlement cards and identity fraud consultation response

The Home Office published a consultation paper on Entitlement Cards and Identity Fraud in July 2002. This can be found on the internet

Learning pathways for adults in Oxfordshire, Milton Keynes and Buckinghamshire

Summary report by the Learning and Skills Development Agency. The Learning and Skills Development Agency was commissioned in July 2001 by a consortium linked to the Oxfordshire Learning Partnership, ...

Funding and learning : a systematic review of research on the impact of finance on engagement with learning

The overall aim of this study is to find out what we know about the relationship between learners’ financial circumstances and their engagement with learning. Financial circumstances refers to income ...

Models of research impact: a cross-sector review

This review of relevant literature and examples of practice is designed to inform researchers and research users across the learning and skills sector about ways of increasing the impact of research-b...

Learning style taxonomies for post-16 learners: an evaluation

Models and inventories of learning styles have had a significant impact on learners and teachers. This study looks at their contribution to post-16 learning, describing and assessing the most influen...

Thinking skill taxonomies for post-16 learners: an evaluation

This review is designed to establish what is known and not known about theories of thinking skills.

A survey of non-prescribed HE for the LSC

The project was commissioned by the national Learning and Skills Council (LSC) to investigate the extent of the provision of non-prescribed higher education (NPHE) in England as delivered primarily by...

Survey of non-prescribed higher education programmes for the LSC

Non-prescribed higher education is the term classifying mainly (but not exclusively) higher-level vocational qualifications at Levels 4 and 5 currently funded by the Learning and Skills Council (LSC)....

“Other provision” : definition, categorisation and funding in FE colleges

The Learning and Skills Council (LSC) established this project with three objectives. - To investigate what further education (FE) colleges in 2001/2002 were providing under the category of “other pro...

Researching for business

There are a range of research services that colleges can offer to industry and other external organisations to help them improve their performance. This project is investigating the nature, extent an...

Other Provision : definition, categorisation and funding

The research project was funded by the Learning and Skills Council (LSC) in autumn 2001 as part of its core grant to the Learning and Skills Development Agency (LSDA). "Other provision” is sub-divide...

The relative costs of qualification programmes and "other provision"

This relatively small piece of research was undertaken in November and December 2002 to assist and inform discussions at the Learning and Skills Council (LSC) about the future funding of qualification...

Review of Additional Learning Support Costs - Final Report 13 December 2002

This review was commissioned by the Learning and Skills Development Agency and was undertaken by the Education Advisory Team of KPMG. The overall aim of the review is to assist the LSC determine how ...

A Review of Learner Support Funding

This review was commissioned to inform the LSC's arrangements for distributing its Learner Support Fund. It is based on consultation, fieldwork visits, data analysis and a review of other recent rele...

Policy Unit Briefing Paper 25 - Opportunity and Security for All: investing in an enterprising, fairer Britain New Public Spending Plans 2003-2006

Policy Unit Briefing Paper on Opportunity and Security for All: investing in an enterprising, fairer Britain New Public Spending Plans 2003-2006. This Briefing Paper focuses primarily on the Spending ...

ELWa consultation on post-16 learner data - Response from the Learning and Skills Development Agency

Response from the Learning and Skills Development Agency

Sustainable Development Education Panel Review : Comments from the Learning and Skills Development Agency

LSDA's contribution to the review of the Sustainable Development Education Panel by DEFRA

Delivering Saving and Assets : Response from the Learning and Skills Development Agency

The consultation paper was published in November 2001, and can be found on the HM Treasury website

National specification for careers education and guidance : response from the Learning and Skills Development Agency

The Connexions Service issued its draft National Specification for Careers Education and Guidance at the end of June 2002. Further details can be found on the Connexions website here.

Adult learning in the context of the learning and skills sector

This discussion paper emerges from work with Sussex LSC, and presents a tentative typology for adult learning to aid discussion about priorities, planning and funding of adult provision in the new LSC...

Quinquennial Review of the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority (QCA) Submission from the Learning and Skills Development Agency

The Quinquennial Review of the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority was announced by Ivan Lewis MP on 18 December 2001 in a Written Answer to a Parliamentary Question from Jim Knight MP.

Individual Learning Accounts : Issues for consideration Submission from the Learning and Skills Development Agency to the Education and Skills Select Committee

Submission to the Education and Skills Select Committee on Individual Learning Accounts

Raising standards : training and development for leaders and managers. Response from the Learning and Skills Development Agency

The consultation was published in February 2002 and can be found on the internet here.

Your Region, Your Choice - Revitalising the English Regions - White paper from Cabinet Office and DTLR published May 2002

Response from the Learning & Skills Development Agency

Measures and Targets for the Quality Improvement Strategy 2002-03 and 2003-04 : Response from the Learning and Skills Development Agency

The consultation was issued by the Learning and Skills Council in February 2002. It is not available on the internet

LSC Circular 02/05: Quality and Standards Reviewing Performance: Arrangements for Colleges and Other Providers Response from the Learning and Skills Development Agency

This consultation circular was published by the LSC in February 2002. It can be found on the internet here.

First Stage Consultation on Additional Learning Support Arrangements from 2003/04 : Response from the Learning and Skills Development Agency

This consultation circular was published by the LSC in February 2002 and can be found on their website here.

Towards Equality and Diversity : Implementing the Employment and Race Directives : Response from the Learning and Skills Development Agency

Towards Equality and Diversity: Implementing the Employment and Race Directives. The consultation document was published in December 2001 and a copy can be found on the internet

Planning for excellence Key points from discussion Notes from an LSDA policy seminar, held 21 March 2002

This note records the key points of discussion at an LSDA policy seminar held on 21 March 2002. The seminar was held under the Chatham House rule.

Non-formal learning : the conceptual terrain LSRC 447

Project number : LSRC 447. This LSRC review is the first stage of a three year research programme addressing the question: what is the nature of non-formal learning, and how does it contribute to the ...

Publication of School And College Performance Tables in 2002 Response from the Learning and Skills Development Agency

The consultation on Publication of School and College Performance Tables was issued by DfES in March 2002 and can be found on their website here.

Memorandum to Select Committee Discussion with QCA

LSDA's Memorandum to the Select Committee May 2002

Success for All : reforming further education and training : Response from the Learning and Skills Development Agency

The discussion document Success for all - reforming further education and training, was published by the DfES in June 2002. It can be found on the internet Deve...

Sink or Swim? Guidance and Support in Adult and Community Learning

Millions of adults benefit from adult and community learning and are generally very positive. However, there is also evidence of unmet needs. Improving the quality of guidance and support for learne...

Mind the gap : making health and safety manageable in adult and community learning

Good health and safety (H&S) practice is about preventing accidents, incidents and poor helath in the workplace. An organisation that manages H&S well establishes a culture of safety, with identified...

Informality and formality in learning : a report for the Learning and Skills Research Centre

Learning is often thought of as 'formal', 'informal' or 'non-formal'. This report suggests that these are not discrete categories, and to think that they are is to misunderstand the nature of learnin...

The welfare system and post-16 learning : breaking down the barriers

This report examines the potential impact of welfare policies on learning opportunities for those on welfare benefits or low incomes. In the context of the proposals set out in the government's Skill...

Saving for Learning in 2020

This report is one of a series prodiced as part of the LSRC Saving for learning project - a major programme of work that explores people's attitudes and behaviour to financing learning for themselves ...

Saving for Learning in the United Kingdom

This report summarises the available evidence on individual contributions to the cost of learning in the United Kingdom and associated savings behaviour. It provides a UK benchmark for the comparativ...

Prospects for growth in further education : A review of recent literature for the 'Prospects for growth' project

The LSRC project 'Prospects for growth' is designed to help all those concerned with lifelong learning gain a better understanding of the likely extent and nature of growth in post-compulsory educatio...

Widening adult participation : a review of research and development

To coincide with the publication of the Learning and Skills Council's new national strategy for widening adult participation, we commissioned this review to assist those who are implementing the strat...

LSDA Responds : The future of higher education

This paper sets out LSDA's response to the Department for Education and Skills White Paper, The future of higher education, published in January 2003. The consultation document is on the internet at:...

Learning from the future : Scenarios for post-16 learning

This report uses scenario techniques to describe and examine a range of alternative futures for the learning and skills sector in 20 years' time. Against a backround of increasing globalisation, tech...

Learning and skills for neighbourhood renewal : Final report to the Neighbourhood Renewal Unit

The report presents the main findings and conclusions from a study of the adult learning and neighbourhood renewal, conducted by the Learning and Skills Development Agency in partnership with the Neig...

Learning and skills for neighbourhood renewal : Summary report on research for the Neighbourhood Renewal Unit

This report summarises the main findings and conclusions from a study of how further education (FE) colleges and Local Education Authority (LEA) adult education services contribute to neighbourhood re...

Learning and Skills for Neighbourhood Renewal - A Policy Review

This policy review examines the extent to which recent changes to the post-16 learning and skills policy environment, particularly in relation for FE colleges, are likely to support neighbourhood rene...

Successful Engagement : Guidance for college and providers on effective employer engagement in post-16 Learning

This guide provides ideas on how to engage employers effectively in post-16 learning. It gives examples of how colleges and providers are currently responding to the needs of employers and their empl...

This paper sets out LSDA's response to the consultation by the DfES, Widening participation in higher education, published in April 2003. The consultation document is on the internet at: www.dfes.gov...

Governance healthcheck for FE college boards 2001/02

College governing bodies are in danger of getting bogged down in detail at the expense of gaining a ‘holistic’ understanding of the big picture. A ‘governance healthcheck’ survey of more than 3000 co...

Dimensions of difference : higher education in the learning and skills sector

This bulletin considers some of the main characteristics of the higher education programmes and higher level qualifications provided by further education establishments. The bulletin makes broad comp...

Vocational higher education : does it meet employers' needs?

This bulletin reports on a study of vocational higher education undertaken against a backdrop of government policies on education that seek to redress the balance between academic and vocational route...

Thinking skill frameworks for post-16 learners : an evaluation

What is a 'thinking skill'? How are thinking skills identified and classified? What kinds of thinking are needed in post-16 learning environments? This report evaluates 35 attempts to classify the ...

Briefing Northern Ireland - September 2003 Issue 1

Learning and Skills Development Agency's Briefing newsletter from Northern Ireland, there are 3 editions per year. LSDA Northern Ireland is a strategic national resource, supporting the development of...

Learning and Skills Research : a journal for further education and lifelong learning Summer 2003 volume 6 number 3

Formerly 'College Research Journal'. In this issue 'equality, diversity and social justice'.

Learner support works : a guide to good practice in using learner support funds

This report draws on interviews with specialist staff in a range of colleges and adult centres to identify good practice in the management of Learner Support Funds. It highlights the need to take an ...

Learning and Skills Research Journal : a journal for further education and lifelong learning Autumn 2003 volume 6 number 4

Formerly 'College Research Journal'. In this issue ' International perspectives on education, training and skills'.

International Comparator Contexts

The Leading Learning project investigates effective leadership for improving performance in post-compulsary learning. What is leadership, who makes it happen and how does it improve organisations? T...

LSDA Responds: 21st Century Skills: Realising our potential - Individuals, Employers, Nation

A response to proposals in the Skills Strategy White Paper.

Citizenship News : Issue 4 - April 2003

The Newsletter of the 16-19 Citizenship Development Programme. In this issue: The youth voice in West London, Positive choices, Citizenship questions and answers, In the council chamber, Learning to l...

Citizenship News : Issue 5 - July 2003

The Newsletter of the 16-19 Citizenship Development Programme. In this issue: Some for all - more for some, What have we achieved?, Controversy in citizenship is inevitable!, From the personal to the...

Dysg Responds Learning Country : Learning Pathways 14-19 – Consultation document

The Welsh Assembly Government published its consultation, Learning country: learning pathways 14-19, in October 2002. The consultation document can be found on the internet

Policy Briefing Paper 28 - 21st Century Skills

The Government published its Skills Strategy White Paper in July 2003. This Briefing Paper, prepared by LSDA's Policy and Communications Unit, offers a thorough analysis of the key themes and proposa...

Policy Briefing Paper 29 : Every Child Matters

The Government published the consultative Green Paper Every Child Matters, in September 2003, alongside three other papers relating to policy for children and young people. This Briefing Paper, prepa...

Policy Briefing Paper 30 : Beyond Rhetoric: Adult Learning Policies and Practices OECD review of adult learning

The Briefing Paper offers an analysis of the key themes found in the OECD review of adult learning practices, Beyond Rhetoric: Adult Learning Policies and Practices, published in February 2003. LSDA's...

Policy Briefing Paper 31 - Pre-Budget Report December 2003

This Briefing Paper highlights relevant announcements and developments for the learning and skills sector from the recent Pre-Budget Report (December 10, 2003). The Pre-Budget Report 2003 can be downl...

LSDA Responds : 21st Century Skills – Realising Our Potential : Individuals, Employers, Nation

This paper sets out LSDA’s response to the Skills Strategy White Paper 21st Century Skills - Realising Our Potential: Individuals, Employers, Nation published in July 2003. The document is available o...

Admissions to Higher Education Review : Consultation on key issues relating to fair admission to higher education

The Admissions to Higher Education Review published an early consultation paper on the key issues to be addressed to achieve a fair admissions process in September 2003. The consultation paper can be...

Consultation on establishing a Council for Graduate Entrepreneurship

In July 2003 LSDA received a joint letter from the Small Business Service and the DfES inviting comments on the possibile establishment of a Council for Graduate Entrepreneurship. This was a 'Limited...

LSDA Responds : Consultation on the case for a national minimum wage for 16 and 17 year olds

This paper sets out LSDA’s response to the consultation by the Low Pay Commission on the case for a national minimum wage for 16 and 17 year olds, issued in July 2003. The consultation document is ava...

Consultation on proposed changes to the key stage 4 curriculum

The QCA and NFER published a consultation paper on proposed changes to the key stage 4 curriculum in May 2003. This can be found on the internet at http://www.qca.org.uk/14-19/11-16-schools/s1-0-stat...

LSDA Responds : Draft Area Inspection Framework for consultation

Ofsted and the Adult Learning Inspectorate jointly published the Draft Area Inspection Framework for consultation in February 2003. The consultation document is available on the internet at http://ww...

LSDA Responds Equality and Diversity : The Way Ahead

The Government published the consultation paper 'Equality and Diversity: the Way Ahead' in autumn 2002. It can be found on the internet

Every Child Matters

The Government published the Green paper, Every Child Matters, in September 2003. The Paper can be downloaded at www.dfes.gov.uk/ev...

HEFCE Strategic Plan 2003-08 Consultation

HEFCE published their draft strategic plan for 2003-08 for consultation in March 2003. This can be found on the internet at www.hefce.ac.uk/aboutus/stratplan.

LSDA Responds : House of Commons Environmental Audit Committee Inquiry – Learning the sustainability lesson

The House of Commons Environmental Audit Committee anounced its inquiry, Learning the sustainability lesson, in January 2003. Further details can be found on the internet

Learning Partnerships Review 2003

The Steering Group for the Learning Partnerships Review 2003 published consultation questions arising from the NIACE Review Report in September 2003. This letter forms LSDA's response to the consulta...

LSDA Responds : The Post-14 Mathematics Inquiry

The Government's Post-14 Mathematics Inquiry, chaired by Adrian Smith, was announced in October 2002, and LSDA was invited to submit written evidence in December 2002. Details of the Inquiry can be f...

LSDA Responds : Proposal to form a lifelong learning sector skills council

The Association of Learning Providers, Further Education National Training Organisation and the Higher Education Staff Development Agency published their proposal for a lifelong learning sector skills...

Proposal for a National Race Equality Standard for FE colleges

The Commission for Black Staff in FE circulated a proposals for a national Race Equality Standard for FE colleges in July 2003. The consultation is not available electronically.

LSDA Responds : Publication of School and College Performance Tables in 2003 : Consultation

The DfES published the consultation, Publication of School and College Performance Tables in 2003 in April 2003. The consultation document is on the internet at: http://www.dfes.gov.uk/consultations2/...

LSDA Responds : The revised regulatory criteria Consultation from QCA, ACCAC and CCEA

This paper sets out LSDA’s response to the consultation by the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority (QCA), the Qualifications, Curriculum and Assessment Authority for Wales (ACCAC) and the Council ...

LSDA Responds : Smart Cards : Enabling e-Government

This paper sets out LSDA’s response to the Office of e-Envoy's draft policy framework Smart Cards: Enabling e-Government, published in July 2003. The consultation document is on the internet at:

Sustainable Development in Education and Skills : emerging thinking on an action plan for England - Initial response from Learning and Skills Development Agency

The DfES published a draft action plan on Sustainable Development in Education and Skills in July 2003. This can be found on the internet at www.dfes.gov.uk/sd/action.shtml.

LSDA Responds : TLRP’s future provision for capacity building : a consultation

This paper sets out LSDA’s response to the consultation by the ESRC Teaching and Learning Research Programme, TLRP’s future provision for capacity, issued in April 2003.

Voluntary and Community Sector (VCS) Infrastructure : a consultation document from the Active Community Unit

This paper sets out LSDA’s response to the consultation by the Active Community Unit in the Home Office, Voluntary and Community Sector Infrastructure, published in September 2003. The consultation do...

LSDA Responds : Working Group for 14-19 Reform Principles for reform of 14-19 learning programmes and qualifications

This paper sets out LSDA’s response to the consultation by the Working Group for 14-19 Reform, Principles for reform of 14-19 learning programmes and qualifications, published in July 2003. The consul...

Comparing judgements and views on the work-based training route – the Netherlands and England

The report provides the outcomes of two small-scale sets of interviews carried out in the Netherlands and in England on views about, and interpretations of, the work-based route for young people. Inte...

Impact of inspection on practitioners

This project explored the impact of the new inspection arrangements on practitioners in further education (FE) colleges. The project was selected at a time when the Office for Standards in Education/A...

Learner guidance and support : the models used and how staff view their effects on retention

In September 2001, the West Country Learning and Skills Research Network (LSRN) began a project that aimed to identify the models of learner guidance and support used in colleges, and to identify staf...

Recollected in tranquillity ?

The research investigated further education (FE) teachers’ perceptions of their initial teacher training in helping them to teach and to support learning. It found that in general there was very high ...

Rising to the challenge: widening participation and raising achievement in sixth form colleges

The research project aimed to identify the key features of student achievement at sixth form colleges, with a view to informing strategies to maintain and improve their performance. It complemented ea...

Improving retention and achievement in work based training

This project will extend research on student outcomes (retention, achievement, employment, distance travelled) to the providers of preparation for work and work based training. It will draw on researc...

Individual investment in learning : findings from focus groups

Between October 1998 and July 2002 LSDA helped fund a series of focus groups looking at issues raised by the debate around Individual Learning Accounts. The focus groups covered ‘Saving for Learning’,...

Funding Additional Learning Support : A report to LSC from LSDA

The LSC has carried out an extensive two stage consultation with providers about arrangements for funding additional learning support. The results of the consultation will influence moves towards a c...

Prospects for Growth in Further Education - Interim Report

In May 2002, the Learning and Skills Research Centre (LSRC) embarked upon a comprehensive research programme to investigate demand in the learning and skills sector. The overall aim of the prospects ...

Successful Engagement : Guidance for colleges and providers on effective employer engagement in post 16 learning

This guide provides ideas on how to effectively engage employers in post 16 learning. It gives examples of how colleges and providers are currently responding to the needs of employers and their emplo...

Widening adult participation : ways to extend good practice - A research report for the Learning and Skills Council

This report identifies and illustrates key characteristics of good practice in widening adult participation in further education colleges. It results from research conducted for the Learning and Skill...

Key Skills Support Programme News (March 2004)

News from the Key Skills Support Programme. In this issue : Mike Tomlinson speaks to the launch of KSSP's student website; From QCA: the results of the key skills review.

From little acorns : towards a strategy for spreading good practice within colleges

What can be done to improve differential performance within colleges? Why do colleges perform differently across areas of learing? Why cannot the weakest departments within a college learn from the ...

Collaborative research in practice: illustrated by the LSDA Regional Research Scheme; Building effective research: 3

This publication is aimed at practitioners (mainly tutors and managers) in FE colleges and parallel settings, whether they are: engaged in research of some kind, hoping to become engaged in research o...

Learning with mobile devices : research and development - a book of papers

The authors who have contributed to this book are researchers, developers and practitioners in both educational and commercial organisations from a number of different countries. They all have in com...

Dancing on a moving carpet : leading change for quality improvement in adult and community learning

Rising expectations and the drive towards modernisation and responsiveness demand rapid change in public services - adult and community learning (ACL) provision is no exception. How can ACL staff use...

The alchemy of learning : impact and progression in adult learning

The transforming or sustaining power of learning is widely recognised. Its impact on individuals, groups and communities is less easy to define or measure. Learning providers need to develop strateg...

The use of computer and video games for learning - a review of the literature

The use of recreational computer and video games, particularly by young people, is commonplace. It is often suggested that playing these games can also have educational value. This review synthesises ...

Difference, diversity and distinctiveness : Higher education in the learning and skills sector

In this report we consider some of the main characteristics of the higher education programmes and higher level qualifications provided by further education establishments. In so doing, we make broad...

Vocational higher education - does it meet employers' needs?

More than half a million students are studying vocational higher education courses in English colleges and universities – more than 460,000 in higher education institutions (mostly universities) and a...

Should we be using learning styles? : What research has to say to practice

Learning style instruments are widely used. But are they reliable and valid? Do they have an impact on pedagogy? This report examines 13 models of learning style and concludes that it matters funda...

Post-16 pedagogy and thinking skills : an evaluation

This report examines methods of developing thinking skills for post-16 teaching and learning, and explores the merits and disadvantages of different approaches to teaching and thinking skills. It ide...

Learning styles and pedagogy in post-16 learning : A systematic and critical review

This report critically reviews the literature on learning styles and examines in detail 13 of the most influential models. The report concludes that it matters fundamentally which instrument is chose...

Learning together : Age mixing in further education colleges

Mixed-age classes are a long-standing, but almost unresearched feature of further education. This study aims to inform the debate on whether to segregate age groups in post-16 education by looking at...

Research in practice : experiences, insights and interventions from the project Transforming Learning Cultures in Further Education (Building effective research : 5)

Citizenship News : Issue 7 - January 2004

The Newsletter of the 16-19 Citizenship Development Programme. In this issue: Effective Citizens; Wider horizons; Learners and local democracy; Inner City Youth Action; Staff development for Citizens...

Rethinking the process - strategies for integrating on and off-the-job training

How can providers in the work-based learning (WBL) sector increase the number of full framework achievements? This report suggests practical ways of promoting greater integration of on-and off-the-jo...

Practical ways of improving success in Modern Apprenticeships

How can providers in the work-based learing (WBL) sector improve success in Modern Apprenticeships? This report suggests practical ways of promoting achievement and progression in WBL. With illustra...

Pushing back the boundaries : working with employers and other partners

A key priority for the work-based learning (WBL) sector is to work more closely with employers, developing partnerships across the sector in an attempt to improve the quality of provision. This repor...

Boosting your retention rates : lessons for preventing early drop-out

Evidence tells us that the peak time for learners leaving a programme of learning occurs in the first 3 months. This report responds to the challenge this presents to the work-based learning sector a...

Do summative assessment and testing have a positive or negative effect on post-16 learners' motivation for learning in the learning and skills sector? : A review of the research literature on assessment in post-compulsory education in the UK

We know a great deal about the impact of assessment on the formal school sector and pupil knowledge, understanding and motivation. We know considerably less about such impact post-16, particularly in...

Briefing Northern Ireland - March 2004 Number 2

Briefing Northern Ireland - June 2004 Number 3

Evidence to the Education and Skills Select Committee - National Skills Strategy : 14-19 Education

This paper sets out the LSDA's submission to the first part of the Education and Skills Select Committee's inquiry into skills following the publication of the government's Skills Strategy, 21st Centu...

Learning brokerage : Building bridges between learners and providers

Learning brokerage offers a means to tackle the UK's 'learning divide', by helping learning providers to reach adults excluded from learning. This report presents early findings from a study on how b...

A cut above : Customising a curriculum for excellence in skills development

UK Skills and LSDA have been undertaking research into how teaching and learning approaches can help learners to develop their technical and personal skills and support the development of excellence i...

IT can make a difference if IT is fit for purpose

This report pulls together a number of action research projects that have used technology as a means of improving learner outcomes. It shares what was done, why and, most importantly, the improvements...

A rolling stone gathers no moss:maintaining the momentum of action research

How can providers respond to the perpetual call for improvement of learner outcomes? One response is to adopt an action research approach - it is closely aligned to quality improvement and allows prac...

Website Design CD-ROM

Web Design is an evolving area of expertise. Keeping up with the latest technology and software requires time, but the results can signifcantly enhance your college profile; improving staff and studen...

Q Projects Series 1 DVD

The materials on this DVD-ROM are from an initiative designed to encourage staff to realise their potential in developing information and learning technology (ILT) skills through small-scale developme...

LSDA responds : Towards a unified e-learning strategy

This paper sets out LSDA's response to the DfES consultation document: Towards a unified e-learning strategy, published in July 2003. The consultation document is available on the internet

Key issues in the deployment of teaching staff in FE

This report brings together research conducted on behalf of the LSDA by the Institute for Employment Studies. The study aimed to investigate the most effective and efficient ways for colleges to organ...

Public Value - a stimulus paper

The purpose of this paper is to begin to explore the relevance of the concept of public value to public services reform and, in particular, to the learning and skills sector. It is relevant to those w...

The prison curriculum in England

This review was commissioned by the Offenders' Learning and Skills Unit (OLSU) and prepared by the Learning and Skills Development Agency (LSDA). The aim was to provide a preliminary overview of the c...

Q here for e-learning poster

Make the most of technology to enhance your teaching through Q projects.

Q projects series 2 DVD ROM

The Q Project initiative is funded by the Learning and Skills Council and managed by LSDA on behalf of the National Learning Network (NLN). The Q project approach has been developed by LSDA from the N...

Good Practice Guide: Integrating key skills, literacy and numeracy

All Key Skills Support Programme publications are FREE to all state-funded post-16 schools and FE colleges in England For more information please contact the key skills helpline, tel 0870 872 8081

Learning brokerage: some preliminary reflections

This paper reflects critically on the concept of learning brokers in the workplace. It was comissioned as part of a wider study on the concept and practice of learning brokerage function in the workpl...

More than the sum

Pick up any learning and skills sector policy document and you will find an emphasis on partnership. Sharing resources, know-how and ideas offers the possibility of finding new ways to engage learners...

Recruitment and Retention of teachers with industrial or professional experience

This is the report of the project on recruitment and retention of teachers with industrial experience and form other parts of the sector conducted on behalf of the LSDA by the Institute for Employment...

Externally accredited provision for adults outside the National Qualifications Framework - phase 2: unpacking the claims LSDA

The Learning and Skills Council (LSC) funded this research project in spring 2004 as part of its core grant to the Learning and Skills Development Agency (LSDA). The project builds on earlier research...

Externally accredited provision for adults outside the National Qualifications Framework - phase 1: an overview LSDA

The research project was funded by the Learning and Skills Council (LSC) in spring 2003 as part of its core grant to the Learning and Skills Development Agency (LSDA). In April 2001, the LSC took over...

Making Work based Learning Work: improving the grade in work-based learning

This report considers the extent to which the quality of work-based learning has improved since LSDA's earlier research , published as 'Making the grade' in 2002. The research aimed to identify any c...

Learning journeys: Learners' voices

This study follows the work of Ward and Edwards (2002) who developed the idea of the learning journey metaphor as a research tool as part of a project supported by the LSDA and the Local Learning and ...

Learning Brokerage: 11 case studies

11 case studies relating to 'learning brokerage; building bridges between learners and providers'

Just Learning? Case studies in improving offender education and training

Blurb: This collection of case studies opens a window on a wealth of initiatives and improvements happening on the ground. Selected to be of use to those seeking to improve quality in offender learnin...

Making Work based Learning Work: Identifying effective practice in the delivery of Apprenticeships

This report identifies characteristics of good practice in relation to the delivery of Apprenticeship programmes, provides a commentary on the extent to which these are currently in place and provides...

Home International

This report makes recommendations for a programme of 'home international' comparative research into post-compulsory learning, comparing the four 'home countries' of the UK. Such a programme would be t...

NVQs within FE: An investigation into full-time NVQ provision and uptake in the FE sector

The LSDA was asked by the LSC to carry out research to assist in the implementation of the recommendations of the Modern Apprenticeship Committee in respect of the rationalisation and transformation o...

The impact on NVQ learning within FE of emerging models of programme-led pathways on the work-based route.

The Learning and Skills Development Agency (LSDA) was asked by the Learning and Skills Council (LSC) to carry out research to assist in the implementation of the recommendations of the Modern Apprenti...

Senior and executive managers in FE

This is one of eleven briefings which is part of a range of resources from the project, The Disability Discrimination Act: taking the work forward 2003-5, managed by the Learning and Skills Developmen...

Governors in FE

LEA officers and ACL executive/strategic staff

FE inclusive learning/learning support managers and managers responsible for DDA implementation

Adult and community learning managers responsible for DDA implementation

FE and ACL tutors with specific responsibility for learners with learning difficulties

For FE teaching staff who are not specialists in working with learners with learning difficulties and disabilities

ACL tutors who are not specialists in working with learners with learning difficulties and disabilities

Breaking down the barriers

All types of learning organisations want to attract men and women that are often called 'non-traditional' learners. To do this they need to respond directly to the needs of the learners rather than t...

Approaches to the delivery of E2E

This document offers advice and practical suggestions on how partners might develop and sustain E2E partnerships and shape the partnership to allow for the needs of the learners and their local labour...

Widening adult participation in learning

The Learning and Skills Council's (LSC’s) strategy on widening adult participation emphasised the importance of having the best evidence on which to develop policy on widening participation. Although ...

LSDA comments: The review of the future role of FE colleges and The Hutton review: the potential contribution of the learning and skills sector to the Lisbon agenda

This policy paper contains LSDA's comments on the review of the future role of FE colleges, undertaken by Sir Andrew Foster, and on Will Hutton's review of the UK's progress on the Lisbon agenda for e...

LSDA Reports: Talking the right language: can further education offer support for business innovation

This publication provides the findings from a feasibility study. Between February and July 2004, the Learning and Skills Development Agency (LSDA) conducted a feasibility study on behalf of the Depart...

Make it happen: Effective Practice in Post 16 Citizenship

This package of video and dvd has been produced as a staff development tool and is a follow up to our first resource package ‘Post 16 citizenship:what?why?how?' It uses as its framework the recently p...

The funding gap - Funding in schools and colleges for full-time students aged 16-18

In December 2004, the Learning and Skills Council (LSC) asked the Learning and Skills Development Agency (LSDA) to investigate the relative levels of funding for learning for full-time 16-18 year-ol...

LSDA responds: Delivering equality for disabled people

This paper sets out LSDA's response to the consultation by the Department for Work and Pensions Delivering equality for disabled people on extending the Disability Discrimination Act (DDA) to function...

LSDA responds: A Framework for Achievement

This is LSDA’s response to the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority (QCA) consultation Framework for Achievement. LSDA strongly supports the proposals for a Framework for Achievement (FfA) to repla...

LSDA responds: The future of inspection

This is LSDA’s response to the Ofsted consultation The future of inspection: a consulation paper.
We point out that the consultation refers only occasionally to colleges and focuses mostly on sch...

The Hutton review: the potential contribution of the learning and skills sector to the Lisbon agenda: an initial paper from the Learning and Skills Development Agency

This paper sets out in brief the scope of the evidence that LSDA could provide to the Hutton review regarding the potential contribution of the learning and skills sector to the Lisbon agenda. It incl...

Legislation on identity cards: LSDA responds

This is a letter response to the government’s consultation on identity cards. We outline issues around identity in education and propose that information about the education of individuals should be ...

LSDA responds: Proposed revision to Common Inspection Framework

This is LSDA’s response to the consultation by the Department for Education and Skills Proposed revision to the Common Inspection Framework. The Common Inspection Framework will continue to assess ...

LSDA responds: Investing in skills

This is LSDA’s response to the Learning and Skills Council (LSC) consultation paper Investing in skills: taking forward the Skills Strategy: fees, funding and learner support in further education. We...

LSDA responds Skills Strategy for Northern Ireland

This is LSDA’s response to the proposed Skills Strategy for Northern Ireland from the Department for Employment and Learning, Northern Ireland. We welcome the Strategy but believe that it should make ...

LSDA Responds: Supporting young people to achieve

This is LSDA’s response to the consultation from HM Treasury, Supporting young people to achieve: towards a new deal for skills. In our response we emphasise the need for greater comparability in the...

More than words: Citizenship through art

Citizenship through Art aims to introduce citizenship education to post-16 learners through the medium of art. It is intended to be a fun and comprehensive guide for those directly involved in citizen...

LSDA Responds: From here to sustainability

This is LSDA’s response to the strategy for sustainable development from the Learning and Skills Council, From here to sustainability. In our response we welcome the aspirations for the economy, soci...

Staff organising work experience/placements

Providers who are starting out

Staff development

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Dysg Briefing

This is the second edition of Briefing Wales, produced by Dysg - the Learning and Skills Development Agency for Wales. Briefing Wales reports on Welsh policy initiatives and examines their relevance w...

Can we compare post-16 performance with the 'best in the world'

Frontier Economics was commissioned by the Learning and Skills Development Agency (LSDA) on behalf of the Learning and Skills Council (LSC) to explore the extent to which it is possible to compare Eng...

A survey of ESF co-financed provision in the LSC sector

This report is based on a Learning and Skills Development Agency LADS research project which sought to describe the nature of provision secured by the LSC with support from the European Social Fund (E...

LSDA responds: The duty to promote disability equality draft code of practice

This is LSDA’s response to the draft code of practice from the Disability Rights Commission, The duty to promote disability: statutory code of practice. England and Wales. LSDA has a long track recor...

LSDA responds: Fairness for all a new commission for equality and human rights

This is LSDA’s response to the equality White Paper proposals from the Department of Trade and Industry to bring six strands - gender, race, ethnic group, age, sexuality and religious belief - into on...

LSDA responds: Further education means business for people, communities and the economy in Northern Ireland

This is LSDA’s response to the 2004 consultation document from the Department for Employment and Learning, Northern Ireland, Further education means business for people, communities and the economy in...

Dysg responds: Welsh assembly government consultation on the skills and employment action plan

This paper sets out the response of Dysg, LSDA in Wales, to the Welsh Assembly Government consultation on the Skills and Employment Action Plan (published May 2004).

Dysg welcomes the opport...

Dysg responds: consultation document on the national basic skills strategy for Wales

This paper sets out the response of Dysg, LSDA in Wales, to the National Basic Skills Strategy for Wales, published in 2004.

In our response we draw on our experience working with various pr...

Dysg responds: making the connections: delivering better public services for Wales

This paper sets out the response of Dysg, LSDA in Wales, to the publication of the National Assembly for Wales publication Making the connections: delivering better public services for Wales (October ...

Dysg responds: developing workforce learning in and for the workplace

This is the response from Dysg, LSDA in Wales, to the consultation by Education and Learning Wales called Developing the workforce - learning in and for the workplace: interim report (August 2004).

Briefing May 2005

Briefing is the monthly newsletter of the Learning and Skills Development Agency. This issue includes news of improved delivery of apprenticeships, an article from Will Hutton on the learning and skil...

Get up stand up: Citizenship through music

This resource pack, a booklet and CD, aims to introduce citizenship education to post-16 learners through the medium of music, song, poetry, or rap. It contains background information on the history o...

Citizenship News: Issue 12 - June 2005

The Newsletter of the 16-19 Citizenship Development Programme. Supplements included: Young Persons Supplement and Reso...

LSDA responds: Reforming qualifications and promoting learning for the 21st century

This paper is LSDA Northern Ireland's response to a consultation on the development of a new framework for achievement from the Council for Curriculum, Examinations and Assessment, Northern Ireland On...

Preparing for inspection: an evaluation from LSDA

This book and the accompanying CD-ROM are based on the inspection evaluation project undertaken by the Learning and Skills Development Agency's VLSP 14:16 in 2004/05. The project focuses on pre-inspe...

LSDA responds: Fair admission to higher education

This is LSDA’s response to the second consultation document issued by the Schwartz Review Group Fair admissions to higher education (April 2004).

LSDA welcomes the principle of actively recr...

LSDA Reponds: LSC's consultation on the national Equality and diversity strategy

This paper sets out LSDA’s response to the consultation by the Learning and Skills council on the National equality and diversity strategy 2004-2007, published in December 2003.

LSDA has a st...

LSDA Responds: Working together a strategy for LSC

This paper is LSDA’s response to the Learning and Skills Council consultation Working together: a strategy for the voluntary and community sector and the Learning and Skills council (December 2003). <...

LSDA Responds: measuring success in the learning and skills sector

This is LSDA’s response to the joint consultation from DfES, LSC, Ofsted and Ali on Measuring success in the learning and skills sector, consultation and discussion document on new measures of success...

Briefing June 2005

This issue of LSDA's monthly newsletter includes articles on choice in public services, personalised learning, meeting the Level 2 target, the European Social Fund, school to work transition and the L...

Briefing July 2005

This special conference edition of LSDA's monthly newsletter includes Ruth Kelly's keynote address to LSDA's summer conference describing education as the foundation for social justice, early findings...

E-learning and technology News

This is the first edition of the quarterly news of the E-learning and technology Programme. This issue will provide you with a brief introduction and an insight into the programme and key elements of ...

The Disability Discrimination Act - 'I don't want to sue anyone... I just want to get a life' Inclusive risk assessment

This report is part of a range of resources from the project, The Disability Discrimination Act: taking the work forward 2003-5, managed by the Learning and Skills Development Agency (LSDA) in partner...

Changes and choices: valuing people in the curriculum

Northern Ireland Essential Skills Newsletter May 2005

This newsletter aims to keep practitioners in the picture with all relevant news, information, latest strategies and resources relating to essential skills.

LSDA NI Briefing March 2005

Learning and Skills Development Agency's Briefing newsletter from Northern Ireland. LSDA Northern Ireland is a strategic national resource, supporting the development of policy and assisting in its im...

E-ffective Teaching

This project supports the objectives of the government's e-learning strategy and reform agenda for initial teacher training. The project was funded by the Learning and Skills Council (LSC) and is mana...

LSDA responds: Leitch Review of Skills call for evidence

This paper is LSDA's contribution of evidence to the Review of future skills needs in the UK, commissioned by HM Treasury in early 2005 and chaired by Sir Sandy Leitch. In this paper, we put forward a...

LSDA responds: Consultation on new school funding arrangements from 2006/07

The main focus of our work is on the post-compulsory phase of education and therefore much of this consultation is beyond our remit. However, there are two points at which we have a specific interest....

LSDA responds: tackling social exclusion through new technologies

This is LSDA’s response to a consultation by the Social Exclusion Unit to inform their project Inclusion through innovation: tackling social exclusion through new technologies (published in 2004).
...

LSDA responds: Planning policy statement 1

This is LSDA’s response to the consultation paper Planning policy statement 1: creating sustainable communities issued by the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister (April 2004).

LSDA supports t...

Dysg responds: the School Organisation Proposals by the National Council for Education and Training for Wales

This paper sets out the response of Dysg, LSDA in Wales, to the School Organisation Proposals by the National Council for Education and Training for Wales Regulations 2004 consultation document.

LSDA responds. Skills: getting on in business, getting on at work

This is LSDA's response to the new Skills Strategy from the Department for Education and Skills (DfES). We welcome the long-term commitment to skills development and share the government’s view of it...

What we know about working with employers: a synthesis of LSDA work on employer engagement

This is a synthesis of the findings from LSDA research and development activity into employer engagement. It aims to enhance the understanding of policy developers and practitioners within the learnin...

Modelling progress towards the Level 2 target

Since 2002 the LSDA has funded a substantial programme of work under the title ‘Prospects for Growth’, designed to help policy-makers understand trends in participation and attainment in post-compulso...

LSDA responds: Review of the future role of further education colleges: 10 key questions

This paper sets out LSDA's response to the 10 key questions posed by Sir Andrew Foster in his consultation on the 'review of the future of FE colleges'.

Understanding Learning Brokerage

This document draws on recent research to explain what learning brokerage is and to show how it works. It has also been informed by a series of regional seminars organised by the Learning and Skills D...

Learning brokerage - a brief guide

This leaflet draws on recent research to explain what learning brokerage is and show how it works.

Disengagement from secondary education - a story retold

This report has attempted to tell a continuous story about those who have disengaged from the education process, from their time at school, through further education and into their working lives, by a...

Learning at work: strategies for widening adult participation in learning below Level 2 via the workplace

This report details the findings of a scoping study into initiatives, methods and approaches designed to encourage a widening adult participation in learning via the workplace below Level 2. The focus...

Mobile learning anytime everywhere: A book of papers from MLEARN 2004

The third annual international mobile learning conference MLEARN 2004 was organised by the MOBIlearn and m-learning projects. The main focus of the conference was to bring together people interested i...

Form or substance in the learning and skills sector

The learning and skills sector is accustomed to debates about the organisation of learning. Effective governance and management are key elements in inspection regimes for the sector. This report moves...

Briefing November 2005

This edition of LSDA's monthly newsletter includes a report on work with disengaged teenagers, articles on learning on and in work, engaging employers and integrating electronic learning; an update on...

Briefing October 2005

Briefing is LSDA's monthly newsletter. This edition contains an update on the Increased Flexibility Programme for 14-16 year olds for which LSDA provides teacher support, articles on Sir Andrew Foster...

Briefing September 2005

This edition of LSDA's monthly newsletter includes articles on the controversial funding gap between schools and FE colleges, partnership models in adult learning and skills, education systems in the ...

LSDA responds: House of Commons Environmental Audit Committee new enquiry Environmental education: a follow-up to "Learning the sustainability lesson"

This is LSDA’s response to the House of Commons Environmental Audit Committee new enquiry: Environmental education: a follow-up to Learning the sustainability lesson (published in May 2004). LSDA wel...

Good practice transfer in post-16 learning: strategies that work

There is a growing body of evidence on why colleges, schools and other learning providers succeed. There has, however, been comparatively little attention given to how learning providers can successfu...

'Do you have a disability - yes or no? or is there a better way of asking?'

This report is one of a series of resources from the project, The Disability Discrimination Act: taking the work forward 2003-05, managed by the Learning and Skills Development Agency (LSDA) in partne...

Modern Foreign Languages in a vocational context: an effective way to delivery the National Languages Strategy

The National Languages Strategy, 'Languages for ALL Languages for Life' outlines the strategy that is set to transform this country's capabilities in languages. It points to the need for the British ...

Improving participation at 17+

This report presents the outcomes of an investigation into effective ways in which learning providers can help to sustain young people’s continued participation in education and training at 17+, after...

Evaluation of regional plans for the new integrated offender learning and skills offenders service

This document reports on the findings from Evaluation of regional plans for the new offender learning and skills service undertaken by the Learning and Skills Development Agency (LSDA). The Offender L...

Dysg Briefing

This is the third edition of Briefing Wales, produced by Dysg - the Learning and Skills Development Agency for Wales. Briefing Wales reports on Welsh policy initiatives and examines their relevance wi...

Key Skills News - November 2005

In this issue of Key Skills News you will find articles on: - Strengthening skills for employability - KSSP at your service: training on offer, databases on web, several case studies and news updates....

Citizenship News: Issue 13 - October 2005

The newsletter of the Post-16 Citizenship Development Programme. In this issue: Globalisation supplement nati...

CoVEs focus on future skills: sustainable development in construction, agriculture and food technology

The project builds on the work analysed in our publication 'Contributing to Sustainable Development - Centres of Vocational Excellence'. The CoVEs chosen were those that had established strong employe...

Measuring and Boosting the Emotional Intelligence of E2E Learners

The concept of emotional intelligence offers a useful framework within which to measure and develop the softer ‘people’ skills that employers value highly. This report shows the findings of research c...

Making it click: an interactive guide to post-16 citizenship

This interactive CD-ROM offers a comprehensive guide to post-16 citizenship. It has been developed to support staff interested in offering citizenship in education and training organisations and in co...

Agree to disagree: Citizenship and controversial issues

The activities in this pack can be used with either staff, within a training and development session, or learners, as part of their citizenship programme. They aim to introduce participants to the mea...

Briefing for providers: The new Duty to Promote Disability Equality

: This briefing is a resource from the project, The new duty to promote disability equality (DDA 2005), managed by the Learning and Skills Development Agency (LSDA) in partnership with NIACE and Skill...

The impact of different modes of assessment on achievement and progress in the learning and skills sector

This study was commissioned to investigate whether or not use of different assessment methods makes a difference to learner achievement and progress in the learning and skills sector. The research fou...

Developing oral communication and productive thinking skills in HM Prisons

This report examines how educators and psychologists seek to foster positive thinking, learning and behaviour change in prisons. Part A focuses on the English Speaking Board’s oral communication cour...

Briefing for policy and regulatory bodies

This briefing is one of a range of publications from the national projects, The Disability Discrimination Act: taking the work forward 2003-5, managed by the Learning and Skills Development Agency (LS...

Managing Ragged-Trousered Philanthropy Authors: Dr Yvonne Hillier and Dr Jill Jameson

This research reports on a further investigation into the original data collected by the 2002/03 Learning and Skills Development Agency (LSDA)/London and South East (LSE) Learning and Skills Research ...

Behaving like adults: meeting the needs of younger learners in further education

This project researched views about the learning of 14-16 year old students in colleges, from the learners themselves, their lecturers and their teachers. The aims of the research were to gauge the ca...

Staff development for post-16 citizenship: Guidance and materials for citizenship co-ordinators and staff developers

Staff development plays an essential part in effective post-16 citizenship in all types of organisation. Whether you work with learners in a training organisation, students in a school or FE college, ...

Innovate or else? the dynamics of innovation in teaching and learning in the learning and skills sector.

Distinguishing between mere novelty and valid innovation, this reports on research into innovation in teaching and learning. Its brief was not a display of good practice, but the factors that underlie...

LSDA responds: Youth matters

This is LSDA's response to the youth Green Paper from the Department for Education and Skills. We fully support the principles underpinning the paper, particularly the provision of a more responsive a...

LSDA responds: A single inspectorate for children and learners

This is LSDA's response to the consultation from the Department for Education and Skills: A single inspectorate for children and learners. LSDA has an established track record of research and develo...

Identifying and supporting learners with additional needs

This guide has been produced for staff and managers in work-based learning providers who work with learners who have additional needs. It aims to provide guidance on defining additional needs, set ou...

Developing an effective process for securing learning support for participants in work-based learning

The project investigated what would need to be in place to secure an effective process for identifying and supporting learning needs in work-based learning (WBL) programmes. An initial feasibility stu...

Promoting positive progression from E2E

The Entry to Employment (E2E) programme provides an opportunity to improve young people’s motivation and confidence, to develop their basic and key skills, to develop their personal and social skills,...

LSDA Northern Ireland Briefing October 2005

Securing Success: setting targets and monitoring and supporting learner progress in post-16 education and training

This report presents findings from an investigation into effective practice in target-setting, monitoring and supporting learner progress in post-16 education and training. It examines evidence of ef...

LSDA responds: Agenda for change: funding reform - technical proposals

This is LSDA's response to the Learning and Skills Council (LSC) Agenda for change: funding reform - technical proposals. We base our response on a wide range of contacts with the LSC and providers ov...

Curriculum planning toolkit for E2E providers

The Curriculum planning toolket for E2E providers offers a process, practical support, tools and templates which will support providers in developing approaches to delivering the E2E curriculum that d...

LSDA responds: A framework for personal, employability

This is LSDA's response to the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority survey on a new framework for personal, employability, learning and thinking skills for 11-19 year olds. We draw on our considera...

Briefing January 2006

This edition of LSDA's monthly newsletter includes articles on new funding policies for adults, flexible learning for 14-16 year olds, the impact of targets on local needs and changes...

Briefing February 2006
This edition of LSDA's monthly newsletter includes articles on Geoff Mulgan's speech at the LSDA New Year lecture on learning to serve, promoting effective partnerships, extending EMAs and how langua...

Briefing March 2006
This last edition of LSDA's monthly newsletter includes a celebration of the work of LSDA and the bright future ahead for the Quality Improvement Agency (QIA) and the Learning and Skills Network (LSN)...

Reality Check: Citizenship through simulation
This pack is aimed at facilitators wishing to use simulations in a programme of active citizenship, in which learners are encouraged to take some real action in their organisation or community. Using ...

Policy Briefing paper 38: Promoting adult learning
LSDA Policy Briefing Papers are designed to provide a reliable summary of key proposals and arguments related to the learning and skills sector. Where appropriate they comment on ternds and implicatio...

LSDA responds: Consultation guidance on 16-19 Competitions and the 16-19 Capital Fund
This is LSDA's response to invitations to comment on the draft guidance on 16-19 Competitions and the 16-19 Capital Fund from the Learning and Skills Council. We welcome the proposals to introduce a n...

Policy Briefing Paper 34: HM Treasury Spending Review July 2004
LSDA Policy Briefing Papers are designed to provide a reliable summary of key proposals and arguments related to the learning and skills sector. Where appropriate they comment on trends and implicatio...

Policy Briefing Paper 35: Pre-Budget Report December 2004
LSDA Policy Briefing Papers are designed to provide a reliable summary of key proposals and arguments related to the learning and skills sector. Where appropriate they comment on trends and implicatio...

Career Paths of Former Apprentices
This report investigates the career paths taken by apprentices after they complete their training, and the extent to which their apprenticeships has been influential in their future success. The resea...

Perceptions of Apprenticeship by minority ethnic learners
The Learning and Skills Development Agency (LSDA) has been investigating the views of people from minority ethnic groups about the value and status of apprenticeships, the current level of participati...

E-learning Making It Work
In 2004/2005, the Learning and Skills Development Agency funded nine diverse projects in successful attempts to 'transform' an area of their work involving the use of technology. Whatever your role in...

Delivering Quality and Choice - how performance indicators help and how performance indicators hinder
Performance indicators are regarded as useful by participants at all levels of the learning and skills system - though for different reasons in different places. This document reports on a research pr...

Getting started with post-16 citizenship
‘Getting Started’ is a set of materials aimed at staff who wish to introduce citizenship education into any organisation that provides education or training for post-16 learners. It consists of inform...

Preparing for the Level 1 and 2 tests: Guide to good practice
The tests are a central part of the key skills qualifications in application of number, communication and ICT and the Skills for Life qualifications in adult literacy and adult numeracy. The guide is ...

Making work based learning work: Improving employer engagement in the delivery of apprenticeships
This LSDA project investigated the extent to which employers are engaged in Modern Apprenticeships (MAs) and identified ways in which their involvement could be increased.

e-learning and Technology News November 2006
The purpose of the e-learning and technology newsletter is to put practitioners in touch with Staff development activities that the Post-16 e-learning programme are doing. The newsletter will includes...

e-learning and technology newsletter - March 2006
The purpose of the e-learning and technology newsletter is to put practitioners in touch with staff development activities that the Post-16 e-learning programme are doing. The newsletter will include...

DDA Briefing - Learner Involvement
This is one of eleven briefings which is part of a range of resources from the project, The Disability Discrimination Act: taking the work forward 2003/06, managed by the Learning and Skills Developme...

Essential Skills Newsletter Northern Ireland - January 2006
This newsletter aims to keep practitioners in the picture with all relevant news, information, latest strategies and resources relating to essential skills.

Choosing an angle: Citizenship through video production
This pack is intended to be a practical and accessible guide to citizenship teaching and learning through video production. The activities in this pack were, in part, developed while working with a gr...

Policy Briefing Paper 40: Skills in the UK: the long-term challenge. Leitch Review of Skills
The primary purpose of Policy Briefing Papers is to provide a reliable summary of key proposals and arguments related to the learning and skills sector. They provide sufficient detail to make referenc...

Post-16 Citizenship: A guide for trainee teachers
The information and activities in this pack are primarily for use with those involved in initial teacher training for citizenship, but may also be valuable for trainee teachers in other curriculum are...

Proper Hard Work (DVD)
This training resource explores the experiences of learners with a range of disabilities. It focuses on the impact that making reasonable adjustments has on the experiences of learners in a variety of...

Citizenship News: Issue 14 - March 2006
The newsletter of the Post-16 Citizenship Development Programme. In this issue: Local democracy supplement, vo...

Citizenship Uncovered: a young person's guide to post-16 citizenship
This DVD has been produced with an advisory group of young people who have themselves taken part in citizenship programmes. They have made this DVD to explain post-16 citizenship education to other yo...

14-19 Provision post Curriculum 2000: a synthesis of work carried out by LSDA
This is an overview and synthesis of the Learning and Skills Development Agency's (LSDA's) research and support activity that applies to 14-19 year olds. It pulls together various strands of activity ...

Learning to serve: the toughest skills challenge for public services and government and what can be done about it
LSDA's third New Year lecture took place on 25 January 2006 and was sponsored by the Northwest Regional Development Agency (NRDA), on behalf of England's Regional Development Agencies. The guest speak...

Planning for Active Learning: Applied A Levels
This CD-ROM has be designed for use by teachers to provide examples of how active learning can be integrated into applied A-Levels and other vocational courses. The CD-ROM includes a ‘how to’ guide fo...

LSDA Responds: Through inclusion to excellence: a summary and consultation document from the Learning and Skills Council
This is LSDA's response to the LSC consultation document Through inclusion to excellence on LSC's planning and funding of provision for learners with learning difficulties and/or disabilities across t...

Getting the price right: costing and charging commercial provision in Centres of Vocational Excellence (CoVEs)
Current government policy expects employers and individuals to pay a greater share of the costs of training, particularly at Level 3, which is the level at which CoVEs are expected to deliver. For CoV...

Sustaining CoVE development
Centres of Vocational Excellence (CoVEs) were first established in 2001, and were intended to be a key driver in enhancing the further education sector’s contribution to meeting skills needs. Their de...

Learning difficulty, disability and additional learning support in further education
This paper seeks to describe the current role of further education colleges in relation to disabled learners, and to consider what role might be appropriate in the future. It covers both those learner...

What works for Learners 14-16? Case studies of provision in six West Midlands further education colleges
This report contains the findings from six case studies of 14-16 provision in further education (FE) colleges in the West Midlands. The case study research was managed and in most cases carried out by...

Sustainable development in the learning and skills sector: a national baseline survey
This report outlines the results of a national survey on current practice in sustainable development in the learning and skills sector. The survey was carried out following the publication of From her...

14-19 strategic planning a practical handbook for schools, colleges and their partners : Book 3 - putting learners first
Book 3 of this handbook covers three topics: a guide for 14-19 providers to the provision of high quality information, advice and guidance; an overview of the issues surrounding equality and diversity...

Learners' perceptions of learner support funding
Although a number of studies have evaluated the impact of different strands of learner support funding, little is known about how learners themselves view this financial support and what their percept...

Learning and skills planning and provision for migrants from the accession states: An exploratory study
Between May 2004 and September 2005, following the accession of eight new states into the EU, around 293,000 migrant workers (A8 migrants) registered in the UK under the Home Office’s EU Worker Regist...

Q Projects Series 3 DVD
Q project DVDs are a valuable free resource from LSN to assist in the embedding of e-learning into curriculum delivery. The materials on this DVD-ROM are from an initiative designed to encourage staff...

Nothing about me, without me involving learners with learning difficulties or disabilities. Guidance on learner involvement.
'Nothing about me, without me' is about exploring the ways in which learners can be directly involved in projects and influence the quality of provision. This report will be useful to you if you are a...

Support into employment for young people and adults with learning difficulties and disabilities.
This guidance document has arisen out of work carried out in a series of action research projects - DDA Taking the work forward - managed by a consortium including LSDA, Skill and NIACE. The guidance ...

Provision for learners aged 14-16 in the further education sector: an initial analysis
This research is based on a postal survey of all colleges in the further education sector, carried out in the summer term 2005. The research confirms that the Increased Flexibility initiative has had ...

Incentives for quality improvement
This report aims to inform the future quality improvement policies of the Learning and Skills Council and the Quality Improvement Agency. The primary focus is on the role of funding incentives in moti...

Apprenticeships: a review of recent policy and practice
This review discusses issues associated with apprenticeships and considers how policy and practice has developed over the last two decades. It draws on a range of LSDA work on aspects of apprenticeshi...

We all came here from somewhere: Diversity, identities and citizenship
The activities in this pack are designed to be used with learners as part of a citizenship programme. They provide a range of ways of encouraging debate about the concepts of 'identity', 'cultural ide...

The journey towards disability equality toolkit
These materials are derived from a research project which reports the experiences of organisations engaged in implementing the Disability Equality Duty (DED). This duty is part of the Disability Discr...

Triggers for Re-Engagement
This report describes the findings and implications of a study that examined the factors that encourage unqualified adults to return to learning. It was carried out by SQW Ltd for the Learning and Ski...

College perceptions of the Learner Support Fund
This report sets out the findings and conclusions of a research project examining college perceptions of the use of the Learner Support Fund (LSF). It is based on a postal survey of all colleges, and ...

The impact of European funding on mainstream Learning and Skills Council provision
This report summarises the findings and conclusions from a study designed to identify how European funding supports Learning and Skills Council (LSC) priorities and contributes to LSC targets.

The Impact of New Fee Policies in Further Education
This research project aimed to find out how colleges are changing fee policies in the light of the Skills Strategy, the extent to which they have raised course fees, and the effects of those changes. ...

ICT and ILT: Good practice in the North West
The 'ICT and ILT Good Practice in the North West' project sought examples of the positive impact of the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) and Information and Learning Technologie...

Interactive Digital Television for Literacy and Numeracy Learning
The articles in this publication bring together information, research findings and lessons learned from 4 years of research and development (2003-2006), focusing on the potential of interactive digita...

Interactive digital TV for learning: the Kickstart TV pilot project
Encouraged by research findings suggesting that interactive digital TV presents a tremendous opportunity to reach adult basic skills learners not previously reached by traditional educational paths, t...

Engaging the hardest to reach: what works at UK online centres
This publication reports the findings of research which explored the processes and services developed by a sample of UK online centres for tacking social exclusion, and identified organisational and f...

Mobile Learning in Practice
UK college tutors taking part in the mobile learning materials (SMS quizzes, PDA learning games and mediaBoard activities) to cater for the specific needs of their students in their particular learnin...

Supporting learners with mental health difficulties
This guide is about how to support the implementation of the Disability Discrimination Act (DDA) and how to develop more inclusive provision in further education (FE), adult education (AE) and work-ba...

E-learning and Technology News October 2006
The purpose of the e-learning and technology newsletter is to put practitioners in touch with Staff development activities that the Post-16 e-learning programme are doing. The newsletter includes upda...

What is being done to support the development and effectiveimplementation of a14-19 Learner Entitlement?
This research investigated 14-19 learner entitlements at a local level, gathering information from across LSC regions to enable a geographical, rural and urban mix of entitlements to be compared and a...

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Integrated approaches to apprenticeship delivery
This research project investigates ways in which the delivery of the most common apprenticeship frameworks in selected sectors might be improved through further integration of framework elements. It i...

An investigation of vocational progression pathways for young people and adults in building crafts and hospitality CoVEs: a London case study - a summary of the key findings
In theory, vocational progression routes exist in most occupational areas from pre-NVQ Level 1 to foundation degree and beyond. The London CoVE network provides the key to driving up vocational progre...

Working in collaboration enhancing provision for disabled learners by working with others.
Maximising influence, gaining a better understanding, extending skills, stretching resources and getting the work done are all good reasons why practitioners and organisations engage in partnership or...

What's your problem? Working with learners with challenging behaviour
This report is one of a series of resources from the project, The Disability Act: taking the work forward 2003-05, managed by LSN in partnership with NIACE and Skill, supported by the DRC and funded b...

Understanding the demand for adult learning: findings from the Prospects for Growth project
The 'Prospects for Growth' programme was designed to inform policy-makers on trends in demand for adult learning. It began with a simulation model of participation in post-16 learning developed by Fro...

Do post-16 structures matter? Evaluating the impact of local patterns of provision
This report explores the question of which system can best deliver the government’s desired post-16 outcomes. It examines the historical background and policy context to post-16 education provision an...

Computer games and simulations for adult learning: Case studies from practice
Computer games and simulations (CIMS 062546RS) The use of computer games and simulations by young people is commonplace. This research report investigates their use by learners aged 16 and upwards in ...

Size Matters: economies of scale in schools and colleges
This report reviews the relationship in England between institutional size and the cost of Level 3 (mainly A-level) provision in three major settings: sixth form colleges (SFCs), general further educa...

Collaborating for success: collaborative arrangements for 14-19 provision in the West Midlands : summary and analysis of research findings from six case studies
These findings from six case study areas in the West Midlands examine : how 14-19 collaborative arrangements have developed and changed in response to local circumstances; the impact of the developmen...

Implementing 14-19 provision: A focus on Schools
This research was designed to explore the economics of delivering vocational elements of Key Stage 4 options in colleges. The study concentrated on schools and colleges associated with successful part...

An investigation into the roles of learning support workers in the learning & skills sector
This report aims to provide coherent and systematic information about learning support workers (LSWs) in the learning and skills sector in England. It covers further education (FE) colleges, sixth for...

Being, Having and Doing: Theories of Learning and Adults with Learning Difficulties
The starting point for this review of literature on theories of learning and adults with learning difficulties is the FEFC's 1996 landmark report, Inclusive Learning (also known as the Tomlinson Repor...

Briefing June 2006
After a short break, Briefing is making its comeback as LSN's newsletter offering the best way of keeping up with developments in the learning and skills sector, with news, policy updates, research an...

Personalised Learning in the Post-16 Sector: A Preliminary Investigation
The concept of 'personalisation' or 'personalised learning' has recently been used by the UK Government to encapsulate a new approach to effective public service delivery. These terms have been used t...

Just Learning? Supporting the learner's journey
Find out about developments in prisons, young offender institutions, probation services and youth offending teams that are helping offenders to prepare for a future free from offending using real life...

Talking business and technology
The effective delivery of vocational programmes is enhanced by providing opportunities for learners to gain a real insight into the world of work. Talking Business and Technology is a multimedia publi...

Embedding e-learning in applied A levels
The Vocational Learning Support Programme and the e-learning team at LSN have worked together to present these resources for the Applied A level. The resources themselves have been produced by practit...

Participation in the learning and Skills sector: a summary of research finding
This review set out to produce a synthesis of the key research findings about learners’ participation in post-compulsory education. It aimed to bring together the key findings from research activity i...

For the sake of argument: discussion and debating skills in citizenship
This is a practical introduction to discussion and debating skills development within a citizenship context. Learners are helped to express their opinions in a clear and logical way, to think critical...

Providing a flexible curriculum at Key Stage 4
This guide is aimed at staff school teachers, practitioners, curriculum leaders and senior managers involved in planning and delivering a flexible Key stage 4 curriculum. It is particularly focused on...

Planning for External Assessment
The new applied A-levels are structured so that each unit has one form of assessment, either portfolio-based or external assessment. In the first year of teaching these qualifications (September 2005 ...

Health and Social Care Applied A level and GCSE teacher resource pack
This CD is a teaching and learning resource designed to promote and enhance the vocational focus of Health and Social Care delivery. It includes interviews with genuine health and care professionals, ...

Getting the show on the road: skills for planning and running citizenship events
An active introduction for staff and learners to the skills needed to run a successful citizenship event. Activities focus on how the citizenship context impacts on the use of these skills and ways to...

Little acorns taking root: Systematic approaches to good practice transfer within organisations
Learning providers are developing their capacity for self-improvement as they prepare for greater self-regulation. Spreading good practice is at the heart of self-improvement strategies. How can good ...

Learner retention and achievement: summary of research findings
This report provides a handy single source which concisely summarises reliable research evidence relevant to learner retention and achievement in the English learning and skills sector. It does not pu...

Maximising the benefits of OLASS for female offenders: an evaluation of the issues
The report makes recommendations to form the basis of guidance about particular factors to take into account in the provision of the Offender Learning and Skills Service (OLASS) for female offenders, ...

Citizenship News: Issue 15 - August 2006
The latest issue of the Post-16 citizenship development programme's newsletter rounds up the lessons of the development programme and celebrates the successes of all of the projects involved. In this ...

Duty to promote disability equality: final report
This report summarises the findings of the project, The New Duty to Promote Disability Equality. Section 1 describes the individual aim of each site. Section 2 identifies the main themes arising from ...

Triggers of Re-Engagement: Do Tasters Courses Work?
In 2001 LSDA undertook an initial evaluation of 3 and 6 hour courses, based on a combination of data analysis and provider visits. This research is thought to represent the first formal tracking of ta...

Key skills professional development module: Planning and delivering key skills project report September 2006
The Key Skills Support Programme (KSSP), ran a continuing professional development (CPD) project between September 2005 and July 2006. The project involved six colleges. Each participating college wa...

Q Projects Series 4 DVD - examples of effective practice
Q project DVDs are a valuable free resource from LSN to assist in the embedding of e-learning into curriculum delivery. The materials on this DVD-ROM are from an initiative designed to encourage staff...

Exploring Employers' Perceptions of Employer Engagements
This report brings together findings from LSDA research projects on employer engagement, exploring demand-side issues from the perspective of employers. Employers and Sector Skills Councils were consu...

An investigation of vocational progression pathways for young people and adults in building crafts and hospitality CoVEs: a London case study
Centres of Vocational Excellence (CoVEs) deliver specialist vocational provision with a focus on increasing learner numbers at Level 3. They aim to produce skilled and appropriately qualified workers ...

Briefing October 2006
Download LSN's newsletter, Briefing, for all the latest news emanating from the learning and skills sector, recent research findings and to find out about upcoming LSN national training events, confer...

Citizenship News: Issue 16 - November 2006
This is the sixteenth issue of Citizenship News and the first to be produced as part of the new Post-16 Citizenship Support Programme. In this issue: Citizenship and the learner voice, citizenship and...

Sustainable Development in London's Further Education and Sixth Form Colleges
This report outlines the results of an action research project to explore attitudes to, and raise awareness of, sustainable development in London’s FE and Sixth Form colleges. The project found th...

A professional development framework for e learning - Framework
The Learning and Skills Network (LSN) has carried forward the initial work of the Learning and Skills Development Agency (LSDA) and the Centre for Excellence in Leadership (CEL) to develop a professio...

Publications and resources catalogue 2006/07 from the Key Skills Support Programme
This catalogue lists all the publications and resources produced by the Key Skills Support Programme (KSSP). They include guides to good practice, teaching and learning materials, videos, CD-ROMs and ...

e-learning and technology news
The purpose of the e-learning and technology newsletter is to put practitioners in touch with Staff development activities that the Post-16 e-learning programme are doing. The newsletter will include ...

Development Programme for Train to Gain Newsletter Spring 2007
In the Spring 07 edition of the Development Programme for Train to Gain newsletter you will find a range of articles for providers who are delivering Train to Gain or any form of employer facing work....

Briefing April 2007
Download LSN's newsletter, Briefing, for all the latest news emanating from the learning and skills sector, recent research findings and to find out about upcoming LSN national training events, confer...

e-learning and technology news
The purpose of the e-learning and technology newsletter is to put practitioners in touch with Staff development activities that the Post-16 e-learning programme are doing. The newsletter will include ...

Advanced level resources for your courses
This audit of resources has been compiled by the Learning and Skills Network as part of the Vocational Learning Support Programme. Our aim was to identify resources that can help teaching staff and ma...

A-level revision guide Media Communication and Production
This publication is for teachers and tutors to use as they help their learners to revise for the compulsory, externally assessed units of the A-level in Media .This publication assumes that learners h...

Post-16 citizenship in colleges: an introduction to effective practice
This booklet, written for lecturers, tutors and managers in further education, tertiary and sixth-form colleges, highlights the benefits of post-16 citizenship. It describes the different approaches t...

Post-16 citizenship in school sixth forms: an introduction to effective practice
This booklet, written for sixth-form teachers, tutors and managers, highlights the benefits of post-16 citizenship. It describes different approaches that can be taken in a school sixth form and provi...

Post-16 citizenship in work-based learning: an introduction to effective practice
This booklet is for managers and trainers of Entry to Employment (E2E) and apprenticeship programmes. It may also be of interest to young people supporting their peers in citizenship activities. Examp...

Post-16 citizenship in youth and community groups: an introduction to effective practice
This booklet is for youth workers and managers in youth services provided by local authorities and those working in community groups and the voluntary sector. It describes the different approaches tha...

A case for action? Skills for active citizenship research
A case for action? Skills for active citizenship research Like citizenship, action research is about having a positive effect on the quality of people’s lives. It is about seeking improvement both for...

More than profit: work, social enterprise and citizenship
The title of the pack, More than profit, gives the message that the materials go beyond the narrow concerns of business and making returns on investment. The sub-title, work, social enterprise and cit...

Responding to Learners' views
This research resulted from the findings of the national study, Count me in FE (2003), which focused on students' experiences of being included within further education. A particular issue raised in t...

LSDA NI Briefing Number 7 February 2007
Learning and Skills Development Agency's Briefing newsletter from Northern Ireland. LSDA Northern Ireland is a strategic national resource, supporting the development of policy and assisting in its im...

Providing Effective Learner Support for Part-Time Learners
Learner support remains a key issue in current thinking in the post-16 education sector. This project, which took place between September 2003 and September 2004, set out to explore further the needs...

Citizenship News: Issue 17 - March 2007
In this issue: Post-16 Citizenship Support Programme Launch conference, young people interview David Blunkett, progress, progression and representation, the student voice enabled and diversity and cit...

Good practice guide: Leading from the middle
This publication is aimed at middle managers in schools, colleges and other settings who have been given the responsibility for leading the transition from key skills to functional skills over the com...

A-level revision guide Health and Social Care
This publication is for teachers and tutors to use as they help their learners to revise for an externally assessed unit that forms part of the A-level in Health and Social Care. This publication assu...

A-level revision guide Travel and Tourism
This publication is for teachers and tutors to use as they help their learners to revise for the compulsory, externally assessed units of the A-level in Travel and Tourism. This publication assumes th...

A-level revision guide Performing Arts
This publication is for teachers and tutors to use as they help their learners to revise for the compulsory, externally assessed units of the A-level in Performing Arts. This publication assumes that ...

Six approaches to post-16 citizenship: 1. Citizenship through learner voice and representation
Giving young people a voice builds their confidence, self-esteem and motivation and encourages them to develop and interest in current events. It helps them to develop and express their own opinions w...

Six approaches to post-16 citizenship: 2. Citizenship through qualifications and personalised programmes
This booklet examines and illustrates approaching post-16 citizenship through qualifications and personalised programmes. This booklet outlines case studies that demonstrate some of the creative and i...

Six approaches to post-16 citizenship: 3. Citizenship through group tutorial and enrichment programmes
This booklet explores how to approach post-16 citizenship through tutorial and enrichment programmes by giving young people timetabled opportunities to meet regularly in personal or pastoral tutor gro...

Six approaches to post-16 citizenship: 4. Citizenship through voluntary and community-based activities
This booklet explores approaching post-16 citizenship through voluntary and community-based activities and how they create links with the wider community and get young people involved in real situatio...

Six approaches to post-16 citizenship: 5. Citizenship through single events
This booklet examines approaching post-16 citizenship through single events that can take the form of small, short workshops, or large whole-day or residential conferences. This booklet highlights how...

Six approaches to post-16 citizenship: 6. Citizenship through research projects
This booklet explores how to approach post-16 citizenship through research projects. These projects can be undertaken by individuals or groups. By involving young people in choosing the citizenship is...

14-19 news Spring 2007
This spring edition of the 14-19 News endeavours to keep you abreast of the latest developments in both policy and practice. We have a leading article from Jon Coles at the DfES on progress on the '14...

Putting the Q into quality project management
LSN has a tradition of supporting e-learning professional development of sector staff by encouraging and funding a range of development projects. One recent example was the Q projects, which is widely...

eCPD in action and self-assessment
Self-assessment is an integral part of the teacher’s professional role. The e-learning professional development (ePD) framework for e-learning has self-assessment at its heart. The aim of this publica...

Post-16 citizenship: a guide for leaders and coordinators
This guide examines the benefits that citizenship can bring and the ways in which leaders and coordinators can ensure that these benefits are embedded in the whole ethos of the organisation. The guid...

ESOLutions newsletter Issue 1 Spring 2007
This newsletter aims to keep practitioners updated on news and views about people and events in the world of ESOL in Northern Ireland.

Raising the learning leaving age: are the public convinced?
In March 2007 the government launched the Raising expectations Green Paper, which sets out proposals for making it compulsory from 2015 for all teenagers to stay in some form of education until they r...

A professional development framework for e learning - Topics
The Learning and Skills Network (LSN) has carried forward the initial work of the Learning and Skills Development Agency (LSDA) and the Centre for Excellence in Leadership (CEL) to develop a professio...

Professional development framework for e-learning: a guide for advisers and practitioners
The Learning and Skills Network (LSN) has carried forward the initial work of the Learning and Skills Development Agency (LSDA) and the Centre for Excellence in Leadership (CEL) to develop a

Lecturers into Industry - Excellence through Partnerships
The Lecturers into Industry initiative, unique to Northern Ireland, provides a robust link between further education and industry, helping to align the curriculum with the needs of the Northern Irelan...

Planning for Active Learning
This CD Rom has 10 sections. Most sections begin with a summary page setting out the numbered sections, the key questions addressed and the rationale for the inclusion of the material. Many sections e...

Better resources for your courses: GCSEs in vocational subjects
This book contains a wealth of information for both teachers and learners. It lists a range of resources for the GCSEs in vocational subjects with descriptions of each, suggesting ways the information...

Crossing the lines: citizenship in the Diplomas
This pack provides information and materials for teachers and students of the first five Diploma Lines of Learning. It highlights the aspects of citizenship which can enrich and enliven Diploma teachi...

Active citizenship: learning resources for topical issues
This collection of resources contains information and activities for young people learning about ten topical and often controversial citizenship issues. The aim of each resource is to introduce the ke...

Moving forward together: citizenship learning for community cohesion
Many recent commentators agree that young people need the opportunity to discuss the issues relating to integration and cohesion. Both the report of the Commission for Integration and Cohesion, and Si...

The language of citizenship: activities for ESOL learners
Citizenship education is essential for ESOL learners who are having to become familiar with a different culture and political system. Citizenship can give ESOL learners the confidence and skills to be...

Straight talking: citizenship and offender learning
The government has recognised the importance of encouraging offenders to develop new skills which enable them to function successfully in society and employment. This pack provides information, case s...

Happy planet: sustainable development and citizenship
This pack has been produced to support the integration of citizenship into post-16 education and training and contains activities for use with learners in the whole range of post-16 settings. They bui...

Citizenship News: Issue 20 - February 2008
In this issue : EurOpinions, Youth parliaments, Tracking human trafficking, Parliamentary political literacy, Bridging cultural divides, Taking citizenship learning beyond post-16, Citizenship the Hon...

Practical Strategies for Teaching and Learning
This CD-ROM provides support for all teachers delivering vocational courses. The CD-ROM includes effective strategies for improving the teaching and learning of vocational courses. The CD-ROM contains...

Planning for External Assessment GCSEs in Vocational Subjects
This CD-ROM contains external assessment support materials for the four most popular applied GCSEs: Applied Business Applied ICT Applied Science Health and Social Care Subject specific advice ...

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Effective practice in teaching and learning: Problem Solving
This guide will help teachers to support learners working towards qualifications in the wider key skills at Levels 1 to 3. The wider key skills can be part of a wide range of learning programmes and ...

Effective practice in teaching and learning: Working With Others
This guide will help teachers to support learners working towards qualifications in the wider key skills at Levels 1 to 3. The wider key skills can be part of a wide range of learning programmes and ...

Effective practice in teaching and learning: Application of Number
This guide will help practitioners to support learners working towards key skills Application of Number at Levels 1 to 3. The guide explains the key skill and the assessment process for Application o...

Effective practice in teaching and learning: Communication
This guide will help practitioners to support learners working towards key skills Communication at Levels 1 to 3. The guide explains the key skill and the assessment process for Communication, and pr...

Train to Gain Newsletter - Winter 2007
The latest edition includes a variety of articles including:
* The top 5 sales challenges
* Train to Gain - a college perspective
* Skills for Life - the real issues facing providers...

Essential Skills Newsletter Northern Ireland
This newsletter aims to keep practitioners in the picture with all relevant news, information, latest strategies and resources relating to essential skills.

Just Suppose Teaching and Learning Became the First Priority... Draft for debate and consultation
As a part if its role in the Leading Through Teaching and Learning Conference taking place on February 12 2008, LSN has asked Frank Coffield to deliver a personal exploration on 'what might happen if ...

Putting Learning First: Applied GCSEs
Putting learning first offers guidance on effective planning and teaching for teachers and managers delivering a vocational curriculum. It offers advice on how to engage students in the learning proc...

Briefing Spring 2008
LSN's newsletter, Briefing, for all the latest news from the learning and skills sector, recent research findings and to find out about upcoming LSN national training events, conferences and consultan...

Briefing Summer 2008
LSN's newsletter, Briefing, contains all the latest news from the learning and skills sector, recent research findings and upcoming LSN national training events, conferences and consultancy offers. Fi...

Briefing Autumn 2008
LSN's newsletter, Briefing, contains all the latest news from the learning and skills sector, recent research findings and upcoming LSN national training events, conferences and consultancy offers.

KSSP News March 2008
This final edition of KSSP News rightly celebrates the achievements of the Key Skills Support Programme over the past nine years.

Behaviour Management - A whole organisation approach
It is hoped to put behaviour management on the agenda in colleges and training organisations and to also support a training initiative developed by LSDA NI as part of its mission to provide targeted s...

Funding for learners with learning difficulties and/or disabilities in school and post-school provision: an integrated approach - Final report
This report summarises the aims, findings, conclusions and recommendations of research projects carried out by the Learning and Skills Network (LSN) for the Learning and Skills Council (LSC) between S...

Funding for learners with learning difficulties and/or disabilities in school and post-school provision: an integrated approach - Summary & context update
This report presents a summary of the aims, context and methods plus extracts of the draft findings, conclusions and recommendations of research projects carried out by the Learning and Skills Network...

A Magna Carta for further education? The self-regulation challenge explored
LSN, along with the Association for College Management and the 157 Group hosted a seminar back in October last year on self-regulation in the FE sector. College principals and senior representatives w...

Employability skills explored
This report examines the factors that define employability skills and explores how UK employers perceive the current level of skills of young people entering their first job as well as the type of ski...

The future of further education
This major opinion survey delivered by LSN in partnership with the Guardian further education pages, investigated whether the sector's workforce supports the government's vision for the future, the de...

FE Colleges: the frontline under pressure? A staff survey of further education colleges in England
This timely research report reveals the general level of staff dissatisfaction within FE Colleges in the UK. Over 3000 FE staff completed a questionnaire that revealed their overwhelming sense of bei...

LSDA NI Briefing number 11 March 2008
A briefing of latest events in the LSDA NI Calendar

Just Suppose Teaching and Learning Became the First Priority
In an age of government priorities and targets, just suppose teaching and learning became the first priority...' This is the topic that the Learning and Skills Network asked Professor Frank Coffield t...

14-19 News Spring 2009
The key themes of this issue are employer engagement, training and resource support for practitioners and consortia preparation for the new lines of learning. There is a range of articles and case stu...

14-19 News Autumn 2008
The Autumn 2008 edition of the 14-19 News brings a range of articles that outline the support offered by the Diploma Support Programme (DSP) to Diploma practitioners. In his article Stephen Meek, DCS...

14-19 News Summer 2008
The summer 08 edition of 14-19 News is designed for all those involved with the Diplomas and the delivery of the 14-19 reforms. The termly magazine will continue to cover articles from DCSF, QCA, QIA,...

Citizenship News: Issue 23 - February 2009
In this issue: Citizenship 10 years on from Crick - a progress report; The European elections 2009 and citizenship learning; Learner voice and citizenship opportunities; Lessons of the past; Our voice...

Citizenship News: Issue 21 - July 2008
In this issue : Citizenship - the trade union perspective, Identity, community cohesion in a large urban college, A project approach to citizenship, An extended project with a citizenship spin, Positi...

Citizenship News: Issue 22 - October 2008
In this issue : Using the Olympics to inspire citizenship activity; Who do we think we are?; The Youth Citizenship Commission; Young campaigners in Tower Hamlets; Learner involvement in the further ed...

Citizenship staff development quick steps: 1 Overview
This four-page publication, one in a series of six signposting key resources available from the Post-16 Citizenship Support Programmes, gives an overview of the range of resources available to support...

Citizenship staff development quick steps: 2 Getting started
This four-page publication, one in a series of six signposting key resources available from the Post-16 Citizenship Support Programmes, describes the key resources available to assist staff getting in...

Citizenship staff development quick steps: 3 Controversial issues
This four-page publication, one in a series of six signposting key resources available from the Post-16 Citizenship Support Programme, details the resources available to assist staff when dealing with...

Citizenship staff development quick steps: 4 Learner voice
This four-page publication, one in a series of six signposting key resources available from the Post-16 Citizenship Support Programme, highlights the range of resources available to support staff in f...

Citizenship staff development quick steps: 5 Diversity and community cohesion
This four-page publication, one in a series of six signposting key resources available from the Post-16 Citizenship Support Programme, introduces diversity and community cohesion in citizenship and lo...

Citizenship staff development quick steps: 6 Citizenship learning through Diplomas
This four-page publication, one in a series of six signposting key resources available from the Post-16 Citizenship Support Programme, details the resources available to support effective staff develo...

Joining the game: Themes for post-16 citizenship
This pack looks at the social and political debates surrounding the Olympic and Paralympic Games that raise important citizenship issues which are likely to be of interest to young people, such as how...

Listening to learners? Citizenship and learner voice
This pack can be used with staff engaged in training and development to help enrich learner voice through citizenship or with learners who have an interest in supporting and developing learner voice w...

Citizenship opportunities through foundation, higher and extended project
This resource is for practitioners involved in citizenship education who are interested in project work, and for those who may or may not be familiar with citizenship to support learners in undertakin...

Supporting good practice in employer responsiveness: a guide to quality improvement
Based on QIA research and experience from the Development Programme for Train to Gain, this leaflet describes key features of employer-responsive provision and how they might be put into practice.

It's a communication jungle out there...
Post-16 education and training is often accused of having a language all of its own, riddled with jargon, policy-speak and acronyms. This report explores how people working across our sector perceive ...

Triple Science GCSE: Curriculum Planning & Design
This publication will provide managers and others with practical advice on how to plan, develop and model the Triple Science requirement- taking into account all the critical factors that need to be c...

Diploma Bespoke Brochure 2008/09
Meeting your needs through bespoke training and consultancy. Free in-house training and consultancy for Gateway 2 consortia

Vocational Applied Brochure 2008/09
Training and consultancy to meet your needs. Free in-house training and consultancy for all schools, colleges, work-based learning providers and Gateway 1 consortia

Triple Science Support Programmes Prospectus 2008-09
This prospectus introduces the triple science support programme and outlines programme activities from September 2008 - 09. Download this resource for further information on Triple Science events and ...

The true cost of college
This report explores the full cost to individuals of participating in further education in England and Wales - the nature and level of cost that individuals incur when they participate and the impact ...

Employability skills examined. Ten key messages from LSN's quest to understand employability skills
As the phrase Employability Skills increasingly cropped up in speeches from august platforms, appeared in titles of conferences, peppers publications exhorting more effort for and by UK plc and formed...

Unfinished business in widening participation: the end of the beginning
Over a decade has gone by since the report of the Widening Participation Committee - Learning works - was presented to the Further Education Funding Council. Ten years on, this report asks how far hav...

Essential Issue No. 10 Winter 2008
Essential Skills NI news

ESOLutions Issue No. 3, December 2008
ESOL News and Events in Northern Ireland

Assessment for Learning
This is a second revised edition of Assessment for learning and it reflects key changes to the 14-19 curriculum since 2005, the year of first publication. The publication gives practical guidance to p...

The Recruitment Game
"The Recruitment Game" (LSN, 2007) was developed from the original work of an LSN Network in Eastern Region; Coastal Federation: Colchester Institute. The Network designed a scheme of work and several...

Triple Science GCSEs - Collaborative Approaches Update Spring 2009
Many schools that are preparing to introduce Triple Science GCSEs may find it helpful to collaborate with other schools or other institutions to share expertise and explore how best to deliver the ent...

Getting started: Progression Pathways within the Foundation Learning Tier at Key Stage 4

LSDA NI Briefing number 15 January 2009
A briefing of latest events in the LSDA NI Calendar

Briefing Spring 2009
LSN's newsletter, Briefing, contains all the latest news from the learning and skills sector, recent research findings and upcoming LSN national training events, conferences and consultancy offers.

A quick guide to School and College Achievement and Attainment Table points in FLT Progression Pathways
Achievement and attainment points are a key performance indicator for schools and colleges. This quick guide provides an overview of School and College Achievement and Attainment Table (SCAAT) points ...

UK employment and skills in a global recession - What can we do now?
As the United Kingdom enters its most serious recession for decades, the main policy focus has been on measures that can contain the situation. This paper presents a call to look ahead - beyond the i...

Understanding FE mergers
Over the past several years there has been a rise in the number of mergers among further education (FE) colleges. This has been against a background of changes to the structure and role of the FE sec...

Rethinking continuing professional development in further education - Eight things you already know about CPD
Continuing professional development (CPD) is increasingly seen as an essential driver in raising the standards of teaching and learning in post-16 education and training. Requirements and processes h...

14-19 News Summer 2009
The contributions bring a lot of positive news on progress and achievements as we approach the end of the first year of Diploma delivery. We are pleased to have contributions from a range of delivery ...

Credit Network newsletter (Spring 1997)
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Learning styles - into the future
Understanding the concept of learning styles offers a key to unlocking the learner’s potential. This staff development handbook looks at how to incorporate information learning technologies within dif...

Moving into FE - the voice of the learner
This study of the move from school to FE is designed to deepen our understanding of students’ experience of learning. It identifies factors affecting learning careers and documents how their dispositi...

Qualifications for the Future - a study of tripartite and other divisions in post-16 education and training
This book explores the organisation of post 16 education and training. It investigates the origins, meanings and effectiveness of a attempts in British education to divide learning, qualifications and...

Non-completion of GNVQs - improving achievement
This booklet summarises the key findings of FEDA research on the causes of drop-out, retention and achievement within GNVQ programmes. It discusses areas of student dissatisfaction, the effects of re...

Ain't misbehaving - towards a whole-college approach for managing disruptive behaviour
Ain't misbehaving aims to help colleges manage and include students who exhibit disruptive behaviour so that their learning experiences are successful. It does this by offering a model for developing ...

Response to DfEE consultation on new arrangements for student financial support
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Strategic research into the funding of further education
This discussion paper supports thinking within the Further Education Development Agency (FEDA) on possible lines of departure for a research strategy into funding methodologies to inform its work with...

Individual Learning Accounts and the funding of colleges
This paper explores the issues which would arise if (a) all Further Education sector colleges, and/or (b) all post-16 education and training was funded via Individual Learning Accounts (ILAs). At one...

Summary statistical picture of FE costs, output and trends
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Inclusive Learning newsletter number 2
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Inclusive Learning newsletter number 1
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Changing college cultures
Changing the culture of a college is a difficult issue to grapple with - but one which is becoming ever more popular on management agendas. This report offers a collection of invaluable reports from a...

College Research - a journal for further education and lifelong learning. Winter 1998
With this first issue of the second volume, we introduce a new section. Research culture is a response to the call at the Blackpool conference of the FE Research Network for the development of a resea...

9000 voices - student persistence and drop-out in further education
This is the largest study of research on student persistence and drop-out ever undertaken in the UK. More than 8,500 students completed questionnaires, and more than 500 students, teachers, managers a...

Key skills - strategies in action
There is a growing national commitment to key skills: they are seen as essential to effective learning and performance, and crucial to UK competitiveness. Based on extensive work with nine FE and sixt...

FE - aspects of economic development
'This collection of national and international perspectives…can help us consider and debate the contribution which further education can make in the future' (Baroness Blackstone). The eight articles d...

A sense of achievement - outcomes of adult learning
This paper contributes to the development of good practice in recognising the broad outcomes of adult learning. It focuses on what providers can do to support learning and recognise achievement.

Tomorrow's college 1998
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Learning to succeed – a new framework for post-16 learning (a summary by FEDA)
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FEDA strategy session – the post-16 review
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Government proposals for the small-business service
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Learning to succeed - school sixth-form funding
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Bridging the gap – new opportunities for 16–18-year-olds not in education, employment or training
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A code of practice for colleges being inspected
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Looking to the future
Looking to the future

Learning to succeed: a new framework for post-16 learning

Learning and earning - the impact of paid employment on young people in full-time education
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Community Profiling to Improve College Responsiveness
Community profiling is a powerful tool that can aid colleges' efforts to widen participation and promote access. This reports on a study to: test a tool for analysing the characteristics of a colleges...

New Deal - a handbook for colleges
As well as describing the New Deal framework in detail, explaining the new vocabulary and concepts, this manual guides providers through the planning and delivery of the New Deal Gateway period and co...

A code of practice for further education
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Inform - FEDA's newsletter (issue3 1999)
Inform FEDA's newsletter (issue3 1999)

Inform - FEDA's newsletter (issue 2, 1999)
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Inform - FEDA's newsletter (issue 1, 1999)
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Skills and enterprise - a challenge to further education and industry (an agenda for action resulting from the FEDA, NTO National Council and DTI consultative conference held on 2 September 1999)
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Key Skills Support Programme News (December 1999)
Please note: The number to call for more information on initial assessment is the helpline on 020 7962 1066 and not the number quoted on page 9.

Governing colleges today - raising quality and achievement
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Towards sustainability – a guide for colleges
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Towards sustainability – a briefing note for colleges
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Raising Quality and Achievement newsletter (November 1999)
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College life - the voice of the learner
Formal education cannot be disconnected from the rest of life. This fascinating sequel to Moving into FE (FEDA, 1998) follows 49 students as they move through and beyond further education. Juxtaposing...

FEDA response to LGA regions hearing
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Right tools for the job - evaluating multimedia, flexible and open learning materials
How do you shift through the mass of multimedia materials now on the market and decide which are the best for your college's needs? Help is at hand. This publication offers a full range of useful tool...

Spotlight on Learning - English and Communication
The Spotlight on Learning initiative draws up a definition of good practice for each teaching context, and shares interesting ideas and techniques developed by teachers in schools and colleges. Practi...

Funding a unitised curriculum – issues
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Attaching funding to units – credit or guided learning hours
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Final report for the FEFC on the unitisation and funding pilot project
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Programmes included in the unitisation and funding pilot project
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Inclusive Learning newsletter number 3
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FEDA response to the Social Exclusion Unit's consultation
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FEDA response to 'Draft national standards for adult literacy and numeracy – numeracy questionnaire'
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FEDA/SKILL response to 'Moser technical implementation group - Adults with learning difficulties and/or disabilities; Pathways to competence; and Basic skills for people with learning difficulties and/or disabilities'
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The Euronet newsletter (November 1999)
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Brochure and application form for US Community Colleges' National Convention to be held in Washington DC on 5–12 April 2000
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FEDA response to 'Consultation on effectiveness of public services in deprived neighbourhoods' from the SEU
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Key skills in GNVQ programmes (leaflet, December 1999)
This booklet is designed as a guide to helpstaff plan, manage and deliver key skills. It is focused on key skills in GNVQ programmes but will be or relevance to tutors and managers working across the...

Principal's Programme (brochure, December 1999)
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FEDA response to the QCA consultation on unitisation
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FEDA response to 'Performance indicators for 2000/01' from the DETR and Audit Commission
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Moving Your 14-19 Curriculum Forward
This is a revised edition of a Learning and Skills Network publication, A quality audit toolkit to support the delivery of change on the ground, and it reflects major changes to the 14-19 curriculum s...

All You Ever Wanted to Know About Learning and Teaching But Were Too Cool to Ask
Following up to the popular 'Just suppose teaching and learning became the first priority' - in his latest project for LSN, Professor Frank Coffield is focusing on learners. Professor Coffield aims ...

Briefing Summer 2009
LSN's newsletter, Briefing, contains all the latest news from the learning and skills sector, recent research findings and upcoming LSN national training events, conferences and consultancy offers.

ESOLutions (Issue No. 4), April 2009
ESOL News and Events in Northern Ireland For further info contact: Wilma Chrusciak

Citizenship News: Issue 24 - July 2009
In this issue: Towards self-sustaining, sector-led post-16 citizenship; A student-led approach; Learners help shape the Foundation Learning Tier; Where are the jobs for citizenship specialists?; Ikusa...

The 14-19 shake-up: Ensuring everyone can flourish
The survey was commissioned to support LSN's 2009 Big Debate, which was entitled 'Winners and Losers in the 14-19 Shake-up'. Like the Big Debate, it puts learners at the centre of the discussion in a...

How to work with small businesses
The ADAPT FESME virtual college / university (VCU) project undertook the first national survey of FE college’s work with local small businesses in October 1998. The survey pinpointed the several areas...

Higher Education Careers Service Review
Response from the Learning & Skills Development Agency

2001 Secondary School And College Performance Tables
Response from the Learning and Skills Development Agency

Getting started: post-16 citizenship
This publication aims to support the introduction of citizenship teaching and learning in the post-16 education and training sector. It is now updated to include guidance and case studies specific to ...

Resources for your Triple Science courses: GCSEs in biology, chemistry and physics
This guide lists many of the resources avaialble for delivering GCSE courses in biology, chemistry and physics. There are sections on books, websites, national CPD organisationsand other multimedia pr...

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LSDA NI Briefing (Issue No. 17), June 2009
A briefing of latest events in the LSDA NI Calendar. For further information please contact Andrea Mullin or Roy Logan.

LSDA NI Briefing (Issue No. 18) September 2009
A briefing of latest events in the LSDA NI Calendar. For further information please contact Andrea Mullin or Roy Logan

LSDA NI Briefing (Issue No. 16), April 2009
A briefing of latest events in the LSDA NI Calendar. For further information please contact Andrea Mullin / Roy Logan LSDA NI.

Beyond Leitch: Skills policy for the upturn
In June 2008 Prime Minister Gordon Brown said that 'In future it will no longer be the shortage of jobs but the shortage of skills that will be the biggest barrier to full employment'. His words echoe...

LSN Corporate Brochure
At LSN we're focused on making learning work for organisations and their people. We're experts in learning and development and apply this expertise to provide consulting, outsourcing, research, techn...

Citizenship News: Issue 25 - October 2009
In this issue: increasing post-16 citizenship opportunities; elections young voters and citizenship; Healthy FE and citizenship; citizenship in every department, promoting political literacy - Parliam...

Mobile Learning - training brochure
Mobile learning offers benefits whether in a school, college, university, cor porate setting, workplace or public institution. The delivery of content and activities direct to handheld devices and the...

Public services: Delivering the fast response and effective results you need
At LSN we are focused on making learning work for organisations and their people. Our expertise in designing and delivering learning solutions is drawn from a wide range of public service organisation...

Work-based Learning: Imagine where our expert support could take you
For over 25 years we have placed quality at the heart of what we do, enabling learning providers to deliver the highest quality provision, better employer engagement and higher learner completion rate...

Bespoke leadership and management from LSN: Delivering solutions to help you grow and develop
At LSN we have 25 years' experience of delivering world-class solutions to leadership and management challenges. Today we are the UK's leading training provider in the learning and skills sector, work...

Tackling the NEETS problem Supporting Local Authorities in reducing young people not in employment, education and training
The number of young people not in employment, education or training (NEET) has risen by almost 2% year-on-year. New results for the second quarter of 2009 show that 24,000 more 16-24 year olds were NE...

14-19 Newsletter Autumn 2009 Edition
'The Autumn 2009 14-19 news reflects the Diploma Support programme becoming part of 14-19 Workforce Support, with the inclusion of articles on the General Qualifications Support Programme and Foundati...

MoLeNET Overview
This publication provides an overview of the MoLeNET initiative, the UK's largest and most diverse implementation of mobile learning. The Learning and Skills Council and consortia led by Further Educa...

Teaching Triple Science: GCSE physics
This is a subject-specific publication to support teachers in the delivery of Triple Science GCSE. It focusses on teaching and learning in GCSE physics and particularly on the content within the biolo...

Triple Science GCSEs - Curriculum Planning and Design
This publication will provide managers and others with practical advice on how to plan, develop and model the Triple Science requirement- taking into account all the critical factors that need to be c...

Citizenship and 14-19 developments: Quick Guides - 8) Citizenship and personal, learning and thinking skills (PLTS)
This revised Quick Guide, one in a series of thirteen highlighting 14 - 19 opportunities for citizenship, focuses on the value of drawing out the close links between citizenship learning and the devel...

Citizenship and 14-19 developments: Quick Guides - 9) Foundation Learning and citizenship
This revised Quick Guide, one in a series of thirteen highlighting 14 - 19 opportunities for citizenship, focuses on the opportunities for citizenship learning at entry level and level 1 within Founda...

Citizenship and 14-19 developments: Quick Guides - 10) Citizenship, social enterprise and Diplomas
This revised Quick Guide, one in a series of thirteen highlighting 14 - 19 opportunities for citizenship, focuses on how citizenship and social enterprise can be included in teaching and learning for ...

Citizenship and 14-19 developments: Quick Guides - 11) Citizenship and community cohesion
This revised Quick Guide, one in a series of thirteen highlighting 14 - 19 opportunities for citizenship, focuses on several aspects of the relationship between citizenship and community cohesion and ...

Citizenship and 14-19 developments: Quick Guides - 2) Personalisation, learner voice and citizenship
This revised Quick Guide, one of a series of thirteen highlighting 14-19 opportunities for citizenship, offers an explanation of ways in which personalised learning and learner voice are both integral...

Citizenship and 14-19 developments: Quick Guides - 3) Building on key stage 4 citizenship
This revised Quick Guide, one of a series of thirteen highlighting 14-19 opportunities for citizenship, focuses on progression in citizenship learning from the statutory provision in key stage 4 throu...

Citizenship and 14-19 developments: Quick Guides - 4) Citizenship and Every Child Matters (ECM)
This revised Quick Guide, one of a series of thirteen highlighting 14-19 opportunities for citizenship, considers the contribution that citizenship learning can make to all aspects of the ECM agenda, ...

Citizenship and 14-19 developments: Quick Guides - 5) GCSEs and GCEs in Citizenship Studies
This revised Quick Guide, one in a series of thirteen highlighting 14 -19 opportunities for citizenship, focuses on new qualifications in Citizenship Studies at GCSE (full and short course options), A...

Citizenship and 14-19 developments: Quick Guides - 6) Citizenship through foundation, higher and extended projects
This revised Quick Guide, one in a series of thirteen highlighting 14-19 opportunities for citizenship, focuses on opportunities for citizenship learning through Foundation, Higher and Extended Projec...

Foundations of citizenship: Activities for learners at entry level
This pack contains activities to build the foundations for citizenship learning with learners at the consolidation and application stages of entry level 1 (which includes the former pre-entry level) a...

Citizenship and 14-19 developments: Quick Guides - 12) Citizenship and employability
This revised Quick Guide, one in a series of thirteen highlighting 14 - 19 opportunities for citizenship, focuses on the concept of employability and the links that can be made with citizenship educat...

Citizenship and 14-19 developments: Quick Guides - 1) Overview of 14-19 developments
his revised Quick Guide, the first of a series of thirteen highlighting 14-19 opportunities for citizenship, offers an overview of 14-19 developments of particular relevance to citizenship including E...

Citizenship and 14-19 developments: Quick Guides - 7) Functional skills and key skills through citizenship
This revised Quick Guide, one in a series of thirteen highlighting 14-19 opportunities for citizenship, focuses on the opportunities for citizenship activities in the context of learning for qualifica...

Individual learning plans in Foundation Learning at Key Stage 4
This resource, written by LSN for LSIS, focuses on implementing individual learning plans (ILPs) within Foundation Learning programmes at Key Stage 4.

Preparing to implement Foundation Learning: A resource for 14-19 managers
This resource, written by LSN for LSIS, will be of interest to managers who are supporting the implementation of Foundation Learning across the 14-19 phase. This includes 14-19 consortia, partnerships...