Upskilling The FE Workforce to Meet Changing Needs
Kerry proposes new workforce development initiatives for FE teachers and trainers, including improving colleagues’ digital skills and responding to post-pandemic learning styles. In the dynamic…
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Rethinking “Early Leavers” as “Partial Achievers”
Kerry advocates adopting a new lens for assessing achievement. Rather than tarnishing all early leavers with the same brush, we should recognise and report on…
Mastering employability, building resilience
Resilience among staff is increasingly important for employers. Kerry discusses teaching and measuring it as a means of improving workforce productivity while cultivating a culture…
2023 Review: Lessons for Providers from Ofsted Inspections
Consistency across programmes, personal development, careers guidance and governance feature in Kerry Boffey’s review of Ofsted inspections in 2023. Here at the Fellowship of Inspection…
Ofsted’s Career Guidance Review: A Missed Opportunity
Kerry Boffey of FIN argues Ofsted’s CIAG review fell short, for example in addressing the broader context of career guidance for employers and established employees.…
How The Language of Learning Can Transform Apprenticeship Delivery
Just as a skilled musician adapts their performance to their audience’s preferences, trainers must adapt their language to resonate with learners’ unique motivations. In the…
The crucial role of quality delivery in further education
Kerry Boffey, quality advisor to five providers judged Outstanding in 2023, emphasises that achieving high quality provision shouldn’t just be for inspection purposes. Instead it’s…
Revving up for Ofsted 2021: Have Ofsted kept their promise?
Scheduled inspections by @OfstedNews were suspended from March this year and since late September, Ofsted have been carrying out ‘interim visits’ to FE and Skills…
It’s time to show that despite all the recent upheaval providers are delivering high-quality training
Since March this year we have seen unprecedented changes in every aspect of our personal and working lives. The Further Education, Learning and Skills sector…
Implementing strategies to improve retention will always be the key to becoming a high performing training provider
It used to be said that inspections of training providers could be ‘won and lost on your data’ and that data ‘told the story of…