1 / 13

New Challenges, New Chances

Embrace the vision for the FE landscape and sector shape, explore Level 3 and 4 loans, and support provider freedoms. Simplify funding processes, enhance teaching and learning, and review IACL initiatives for adult literacy, numeracy, and higher education. Increase transparency and focus on inclusive learning opportunities. The adult education movement should be people-centric, serving societal needs over government directives. Address challenges of clarifying objectives, targeting disadvantaged groups, providing evidence, fairer funding, and fostering diverse learning environments along with quality workforce training. Engage in the NIACE online survey to voice your opinions on the IACL review before the deadline on October 21, 2011.

garin
Download Presentation

New Challenges, New Chances

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. New Challenges, New Chances And the review of informal adult community learning

  2. New Challenges, New Chances • Vision for the FE landscape and sector shape • Level 3 and 4 loans • Provider freedoms and flexibility • Funding simplification • Teaching, learning and qualifications • Review of IACL • Review of adult literacy and numeracy • Higher education • Increasing transparency

  3. The adult education movement was not born of Government but of the people. And its primary accountability today should be not to the Government but to the people it serves.(Skills for Sustainable Growth foreword)

  4. Challenge 1 The need to clarify Government objectives for spend on informal adult and community learning and its role in supporting wider Government policy objectives including the Big Society, localism, wellbeing, social inclusion and digital inclusion.

  5. Challenge 2 The need to ensure that Government funding is sufficiently focused on the most disadvantaged.

  6. Challenge 3 The need to provide robust evidence for IACL.

  7. Challenge 4 The need to address funding anomalies and make funding fairer.

  8. Challenge 5 The need to create the conditions that will enable a much wider range of informal learning to thrive.

  9. Challenge 6 The need to ensure that workforce training and quality assurance arrangements support the new vision for BIS-funded IACL.

  10. Have your say! • NIACE on line survey for individuals • http://www.niace.org.uk/current-work/the-iacl- review

  11. Responding to New Challenges, New Chances • Closing date 21 October 2011 • hhttp://www.bis.gov.uk/Consultations/fe-and-skills-new-challenges-new-chances?cat=open

More Related