“These are the things that will get you out of trouble


and keep you out of trouble. The resilience of the entire organisation goes if you are not developing staff.” Martin Doel, who has a professorial chair in FE leadership at the UCL Institute of Education, says financial pressures have exposed frailties in leadership. The Association of Colleges’ (AoC) former CEO says: “An average-performing leadership would not be sufficient in this economic climate. We need exemplary leadership and that has caused problems.” The new Ofsted Education Inspection Framework,


introduced in September, says that leaders should ensure that “teachers receive focused and highly effective professional development”.


Research, also published this year and commissioned by the Further Education Trust for Leadership (FETL), says that teaching staff are best placed to improve teaching and learning by identifying their own professional needs “while senior leaders establish the conditions in which this can take place”. It is a model that finds favour at Derby College


Group, a SET Corporate Partner, where time is set aside for professional development every week. Melanie Lanser, Derby’s director of teaching, learning and academic research, says professional development has been ring-fenced “through support from senior leadership”. She says: “It’s about putting teaching and learning at the heart of what we do.”


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