Skills Are Not Enough
In this article, Chris discusses how a skilled workforce isn’t enough to produce high quality provision for students. A collaborative culture is also necessary and…
self-improving FE system
In a self-improving FE system we would confidently pursue the strategies that we knew, from evidence and experience, were successful.
The idea of a self-improving system is very familiar in the schools policy world, and has been for over a decade. It’s also familiar in management thinking and organisational design.
It’s not the answer to all problems, but it is a powerful way of thinking about an area of human endeavour – like a national education system – and re-imagining it through 21st century lenses of understanding, not 20th century models of production and consumption.
It focuses on the interdependency of the people and processes– typically using ecological metaphors more than mechanistic ones.
David Russell, ETF, is leading a collaborative project with the FE sector on how we could envisage and then create a self-improving system in FE.
What’s Boris Johnson got to do with a self-improving FE system?
One of the most startling things about last week’s political events from an educational perspective has been the comings and goings at the DfE. A…
