Quality Improvement Information, Advice and Guidance

England

Excellence Gateway

The Quality Improvement Agency have developed the Excellence Gateway to provide access to examples of good practice, self-improvement, suppliers of improvement services plus materials to support teaching and learning. The Gateway is also home to Ofsteds Good Practice Database.

World Class Skills - developing responsive provision is the new Learning and Skills Improvement Service (LSIS) support programme in the area of skills and employer responsiveness.  It replaces the Development Programme for Train to Gain and has been set up to help FE sector providers to work successfully with employers to deliver flexible, responsive, high quality training, as called for in the Leitch Review of Skills.

This new programme will help colleges and training providers to enhance the way they work with employers and employees and to maximise the benefits to employers and the economy of upskilling the UK's workforce. The programme includes seminars, workshops and consultancy on a range of areas, including organisation design and development, managing change, sales skills and funding and finance. It is fully subsidised for Learning and Skills Council (LSC) funded providers.    

The supporting Your success Service is a new tailored service offered by the Learning and Skills Network (LSN) for FE colleges and training providers who want to implement successful quality improvement and employer responsiveness across their organisation. The LSN offer lots of other support too.

Improving Automotive Provision - Ofsted Report

An Ofsted survey of college provision identifying good practice in engineering and manufacturing technologies, with good references to motor vehicle. This report identifies examples of good practice from Ofsted inspections of 18 colleges graded Good or Outstanding carried out between November 2006 and March 2007.

To download the report please click here