SET welcomes four more Corporate Partners
A warm welcome to colleagues at four more education and training providers who have recently become Corporate Partners of the Society for Education and Training (SET). The Sheffield College, East Kent College (EKC) Group, Lambeth College
and Stockport Council’s Continuing Education Service join existing corporate members already benefiting from access to SET resources and support for staff professional development. Angela Foulkes, chief executive and principal of The Sheffield College, said: “We are delighted to join SET as a Corporate Partner. Investing in our staff, and their professional development, is a top priority.” Tammy Mitchell, executive director schools and early years at EKC
Group, said: “It is fantastic to become a Corporate Partner of SET as an investment to unlocking the full potential of our teaching staff.” Fiona Morey, Lambeth College principal, said: “We are delighted to be working so closely with SET and for our teachers to be able to develop their professional practice through the opportunities offered by SET.” Sean Burke, from Stockport’s Continuing Education Service, said: “The
investment we make in our staff reflects an ambition to be outstanding in all aspects of our learning offer. We look forward to working with SET to this end.” SET Corporate Partnership benefits providers, their teaching staff and learners through a wide range of services and benefits, including: • the opportunity to study for Qualified Teacher Learning and Skills (QTLS) and Advanced Teacher Status (ATS)
• support for staff following the Code of Practice • support in embedding the ETF Professional Standards • access to resources, discounted courses, training and teaching tools • access to SET’s online research library • membership of a professional community of almost 20,000 practitioners • copies of inTuition.
Extra funding leaves FE £1bn short, says report
Spending per student in further education is still seven per cent lower than it was in 2010 despite the extra money announced in the recent Budget, according to the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS). The £400 million increase in FE funding for 2020, announced in August
by Chancellor Sajid Javid, will still leave the sector more than £1 billion short of what it would need to fully reverse cuts in funding since 2010, according to the second annual report on education spending from the IFS. It says that while the Chancellor announced there would be £400 million
more for FE, the IFS has revised that figure down to £300 million by presenting it in 2019-20 prices, rather than 2018-19 prices. The IFS says this more accurately represents the true scale of the increase for FE next year. The IFS estimates that an additional £300 million would be required by 2022-23 (on top of the extra £300 million more for FE in 2020) to avoid further cuts in per-student funding. The report also notes that total spending on classroom-based adult education fell by 47 per cent between 2009-10 and 2018-19, mainly due to a decline in learner numbers, dropping from 4.4 million in 2004-05 to 1.5 million in 2017-18. Of the £5.3 billion spent on adult education and apprenticeships in 2003-
04, about 21 per cent was spent on apprenticeships or work-based learning. By 2018–19, this fraction had risen to 54 per cent. See InView and Policy View, pages 6 and 7.
Providers can find out more about Corporate Partnership by emailing stephanie.wallis@
etfoundation.co.uk
NEW APPRENTICESHIP TOOLKIT A new toolkit that attempts to define and understand what the sector means by Outstanding Teaching Learning and Assessment (OTLA) in the context of Apprenticeship Standards has been published by the Education and Training Foundation (ETF). The toolkit, Exploring Delivery in
Apprenticeship Standards, shares emerging practice, case studies and tools. The toolkit is available now on the ETF’s Excellence Gateway site. SET members logged into the digital version of inTuition can simply click this link:
bit.ly/ ExploringDeliveryToolkit
A HANDY SET OF DIGITAL TOOLS A new toolkit to help providers harness students’ digital capabilities to support teaching, learning and assessment has been published by the Education and Training Foundation (ETF). The toolkit offers a step-by-step
guide to creating staff-student partnerships and reflects the key findings from four pilots. The toolkit is available on
the Excellence Gateway. Digital readers can simply click this link:
bit.ly/ETFDigitalToolkit
CHAIR OF ETF BOARD APPOINTED Peter Latchford OBE has been appointed by the Board of the Education and Training Foundation (ETF) to succeed Paul Mullins OBE, whose term ends in October. Peter is an experienced chair, and non-executive and executive director of a wide range of organisations in the public, private and third sectors. He has been a visiting professor of enterprise at Birmingham City University since 2010. Rachel Musson has been appointed to the ETF’s Board of Trustees from July 2019, succeeding Steve Freer as Chair of Audit in December 2019. Andrew McConnell OBE has also been appointed to the Board of Trustees from July 2019.
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