Skills and Training News

A useful resource from  AELP. A step by step guide for moving from Key Skills to Functional Skills.

Guidance from OFQual - list of additional regulatory documents still in force from the 18th July onwards.

Useful to refer to when deciding on practice and policy. Should be used alongside awarding body guidance.

 Following the closure of Lifelong Learning UK (LLUK) and its subsidiary company Standards Verification UK (SVUK) on 31 March 2011, certain responsibilities previously held by them will be transferred to the Institute for Learning (IfL), to ensure continuity of the work on standards and qualifications for the learning and skills sector.

 Catch up with the latest news from the Department for Business and Skills...

From the Department of Education - The independent Wolf Review into vocational education, commissioned by Education Secretary Michael Gove, is published today.

"Professor Alison Wolf analyses how millions of children have been failed over the past twenty years and sets out a blueprint for a very different system in which almost all young people have the chance of further education or a good job" (Department of Education press notice).

http://www.education.gov.uk/inthenews/pressnotices/a0075181/wolf-review-...