Preparing to introduce T Levels POLICYVIEW By Jenifer Burden
The introduction of T Levels offers a once in a generation opportunity to build the strong foundation for technical education that our young people deserve, and which providers work tirelessly to offer. Developed with employer expertise at its heart, T Levels will give our
young people similar technical study programme hours to their peers in other countries, such as Denmark, Germany, Finland and the Netherlands, with a substantial industry placement offering an opportunity to develop the technical and employability skills that equip each learner for their future. Since the publication of the Government’s Post-16 Skills Plan in 2016, the Gatsby Charitable Foundation has been working with partners in several local areas to support providers’ preparations for implementing T Levels, and the wider reforms for technical education, including new Higher Technical Qualifications. Local project leads are facilitating several strands of work:
• Data analysis of current provision through the lens of technical education pathways, to support coherent planning for the area’s T Level provision.
• Routes Ready networks – at the heart of the programme, these networks bring together local curriculum heads for a technical education route to plan joint local continuing professional development (CPD) and share curriculum planning and industry placement expertise.
• Through the wider reach of the combined authority and Local Enterprise Partnerships (LEPs): (i) helping to build employers’ awareness and engagement for co-delivery and industry placements; (ii) collaborating with local Careers Education, Information, Advice and Guidance (CEIAG) professionals to provide information for young people considering their post-16 choices. From April 2019, the Education and Training Foundation (ETF) has been offering T Level preparation support across England for institutions introducing T Levels from 2020. Funded by the Department for Education, the T Level Professional Development (TLPD) programme will also work with providers who are preparing to offer T Levels from 2021 onwards. Teachers can access a range of funded-support, including industry insight placements and other CPD opportunities. Providers may also apply to join regionally-based action research projects – TRIPs – focused on preparations for T Levels. Gatsby is working closely with the ETF to share learning through networks
across the country. Over the coming year we will develop further support for T Level providers.
Jenifer Burden is director of programmes at the Gatsby Charitable Foundation. It is a charitable body set up by Lord Sainsbury, a businessman and former Labour minister. Lord Sainsbury chaired the Independent Panel on Technical Education whose recommendations on the reform of education and training informed the Government’s subsequent Post-16 Skills Plan.
USEFUL LINKS
• Learn about ETF’s TLPD programme across England at
bit.ly/ETFTLevels • You can watch provider feedback on their T Level preparations at
bit.ly/GatsbyTLevelCaseStudies
• To register for updates via the Gatsby Education newsletter visit
bit.ly/Gatsbynewsletter • To find out more about the Gatsby Charitable Foundation’s support for technical education visit
bit.ly/GatsbyTechnicalEducation
WELCOME FROM MARTIN REID
I am delighted to introduce your summer issue of inTuition, which includes an interview with Professor John Hattie, whose work has had a profound effect on the way we think about teaching and learning.
The sheer amount of data
Professor Hattie has analysed and synthesised in attempting to find out what works best in supporting successful learning outcomes is mind-boggling. I thoroughly recommend reading the interview on page 10. I’m also very pleased to see some of our Fellows featured on pages 24 and 25. Like Advanced Teacher Status (which David Russell writes about opposite), Fellowship of SET is a great way in which members can demonstrate their experience and engagement in the sector as senior practitioners. The same is true of those
involved in running and supporting SET’s Local Network Groups, some of whom are Fellows. LNGs are grassroots communities of professional practice.
LNG members set their own agendas and we at SET help with practical stuff like securing speakers and venues. You can hear from some of our LNG leaders on pages 26 and 27. Congratulations too to the new members of the SET Practitioner Advisory Group (PAG) (see page 5). Wishing all members a fantastic summer.
Martin Reid is director of SET. inTUITION ISSUE 36 • SUMMER 2019 7
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