Further Education Sector
Professional and technical enrolments in the Northern Ireland further education sector for 2012/13
... technical education and training in NI, and the sector plays a central role in raising literacy levels, and in up-skilling and re-skilling the population through a broad range of courses leading to ...
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Professional and technical enrolments in the Northern Ireland further education sector for 2011/12
... technical education and training in NI, and the sector plays a central role in raising literacy levels, and in up-skilling and re-skilling the population through a broad range of courses leading to ...
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Professional and technical retention and achievement data in the Northern Ireland further education sector for 2012/13
... technical education and training in NI, and the sector plays a central role in raising literacy levels, and in up-skilling and re-skilling the population through a broad range of courses leading to ...
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Efficiency in the Further Education Sector in England
... The variation in efficiency by AOL and by type of FE provider requires further investigation using tobit analy- sis, and the results of this are displayed in Table 5. With regard to student gender, a 10 point ...
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Provision for learners aged 14-16 in the further education sector: an initial analysis
... Since 2002/03, the rate of growth has been prodigious. For the colleges responding to the questionnaire, the number of qualification aims studied increased over the period 2002/03 to 2004/05 by 144% for nationally ...
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Performativity and professional development: the gap between policy and practice in the English further education sector
... mechanisms through which government and its agencies seek to implement policies”. The use of targets for FE colleges is one such policy lever. In order to demonstrate how policy levers become detached from the changes ...
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Speech: John Swinney: National bargaining in the further education sector: 16 May 2017
... Secondly, I insisted that a robust evidence base was needed to establish baselines on the issues of key importance: the sector norm for class contact time and for annual leave so that competing bids could be ...
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Meeting the Needs of Local Communities and Businesses: From Transactional to Eco Leadership in the English Further Education Sector
... of education (Kenway, 1994), predicated on an assumption that educational goals are best achieved through incentives acting on agent self-interest, has created a compliant leadership in the face of a series of ...
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Is Initial Teacher Education (ITE) based on the capabilities approach likely to foster inclusion for autistic learners in the further education sector?
... in education seems crucial if inclusion in education, and ultimately society, is the ...‘If education is to have the role of enabling young people to develop their human potential, then the minimum ...
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Room for improvement? The impact of compulsory professional development for teachers in England's further education sector
... English Further Education (FE) sector has attracted much attention from the New Labour government of Tony Blair and now Gordon ...English education system with over four million students, FE ...
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The evidence base on college size and mergers in the further education sector
... receive education), it is possible that some providers may enjoy local monopoly powers – in certain rural locations there may only be one provider within a viable travel to learn area – so these indicators may be ...
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Building digital skills in the Further Education Sector
... The Further Education Learning Technology Action Group (FELTAG) report also recommended that all courses include online learning, and that teachers should have continuing professional development to enable ...
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The end of ‘strategic compliance’? Practice and professionalism in the English Further Education sector
... Even within her section there was little interaction beyond a small and diminishing core of long-term staff. Andrea’s then manager, with a list of things to do “as long as her arm”, had changed from being a friend to ...
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Further education sector reform case studies: area reviews
... collected for the option analysis. Therefore, principals had to revisit the data collected as part of the option analysis and collect additional data as part of the RF. Consequently, some colleges highlighted that the ...
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Supporting the professional development of ‘hybrid’ teacher educators in the Further Education sector
... Skills sector raises a challenge of ...teacher education leading to government accreditation. However, in the FE sector, teacher educators work in different types of organisations with varied roles ...
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Speech: Justine Greening: Business and Education Summit: 6 July 2017
... It’s clear to me that our further education sector needs more support. That mean smarter decision making on the ground – to raise standards – so that everyone who attends college receives quality ...
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Robbins and Advanced Further Education
... higher education are not the focus of this ...higher education in the further education sector: its contemporary contours and characteristics; and its place in growth ...to ...
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Understanding higher education in further education colleges
... When student groups did discuss the distinctive features of colleges and universities, it was very rarely based on their first- hand experience. Rather their views were informed by word of mouth, the experiences of their ...
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Leadership and ethics in further education
... If an industry offers no employment prospects in the local area, the college doesn’t offer vocational training in that field. The government takes this further by linking student numbers to local jobs. The college ...
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Degrees of difference higher education in further education
... On further exploration, prompting and probing, this concern was brought on by a lack of clarity around planned actions and improvements resulting from student feedback, ...
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