All Further Education Projects

Working Well

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Working Well promotes staff well being in the post 16 eductaion and training sector.

The Enhancement of Learning Support

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This project, being undertaken by Natspec on behalf of LSIS (Learnign and Skills Improvement Service), is designed to improve the quality and management of learning support for learners with additional needs across the FE sector. The initial phase is to identify sector needs, scope existing work and expertise in this area and produce recommendations for programme of training and development.

Stimulating Demand for Learning

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Working with learning providers and a range of other partners to implement specific strategies aimed at increasing demand for learning by people with mental health difficulties. Pilot sites across the 9 regions consist of one or more learning or service providers and a range of other partners, to form strong and effective local partnerships that are able to encourage and support people with mental health difficulties into learning.

NWFEproject

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Many young people who experience emotional and psychological distress may not have disclosed their difficulties to health services and have not received a diagnosis, or do not use conventional names to label their distress.  Similarly, they may not disclose any such difficulties on enrolment with a learning provider.  As a result, the 'real levels of emotional and psychological distress' in young people may be higher than those suggested by official statistics.  As trusted adults within learning providers can often be the ones that young people turn to for support in the first instance, some exploration into the experiences of young people and their learning providers was needed.  The North West LSC, being aware of the region's particular needs around mental health, and also having concern about the FE drop-out rates at age 16 and 17, provided funding for this project to take place.

Making the Journey

This project has now finished. We've left it here for reference.

Making the Journey is a NIACE research report, reporting on findings from questionnaire and focus group research into how people experiencing mental health difficulties travel around in their everyday life (such as walking, driving, using public transport) and issues or challenges they experience in travelling - especially in relation to learning and working.

Financial Literacy for Vocational Learners in FE - York College

Enabling Declaration

Levels of declaration of mental health difficulties by learners and staff are low. The project explores practice within a range of settings that will enable and support people to declare, knowing that their needs will be met.

Colleges in their Communities Inquiry

Colleges in their Communities, is a joint-inquiry examining the role that colleges play in their communities - led by NIACE, the Association of Colleges (AoC) and the 157 Group - and published its final report at the AoC conference on 15 November 2011.

Since the Commission started its Inquiry in January 2011, it has found that while many colleges are already firmly embedded in their communities they still have to negotiate an unduly complex funding regime. They see partnerships as an important way of embedding colleges in their communities, but recognise that these can be expensive in terms of resources and management time. However, local decision-making is crucial and engagement that involves employers, learners and the wider community in helping make these decisions and develop the college curriculum is the most effective.

A dynamic nucleus - Final report

A dynamic nucleus - Summary report

The Inquiry’s Interim Report was published on 15 July 2011.

Full details of the Inquiry's Commissioners can be found here - [PDF].

Back on Track 2

This project promotes a model of collaborative working between Further Education (FE) colleges and Early Intervention in Psychosis (EIP) services. It is based on an innovative project in Portsmouth: Back on Track - a partnership between Headspace Early Intervention in Psychosis Team and Highbury College.