Administration services for Schemeta
FE Sussex are very pleased to be working with Schemeta to provide administration support for the contract they hold with the Education and Training Foundation for the delivery of maths and English courses for teachers in the Further Education and Training sector. Our service includes the recruitment of on-line tutors to delivery the training, management of their training sessions, enrolment of in-service course participants and production of project metrics.
Curriculum development for Columbia
FE Sussex has been contracted by People 1st International to devise curriculum and associated schemes of work, lesson plans, supporting resources and teacher notes for courses in the construction industries of Columbia specialising in BIM (Building Information Modelling) and also Sustainable Construction Methodology. When completed and translated into Spanish the on-line resource will enable over 150 university students to gain an appreciation and understanding of modern construction methods which they will use as they enter the industry in Columbia.
Bursary Opportunities
Delivering Skills for the Future – funded by HM Government and South East Local Enterprise Partnership
Bursary opportunities, sponsored by the South East Local Enterprise Partnership (SELEP), to obtain teacher training qualifications are now closed.
However, most further education colleges offer an extensive staff development programme which is designed to equip you with the skills to become an effective and efficient teacher. Many of these opportunities lead to external qualifications such as Cert Ed.
We recommend you check what professional development support is available when enquiring about or being interviewed for a teaching or instructing role in a college or training provider.
Curriculum Development for Panama
FE Sussex was contracted by People First to assist them in writing curriculum and assessment material for a new vocational college which is being established in Panama.
The services we provided:
Services FE Sussex has provided for this long and complex project include:
- An extremely good knowledge of the teaching of construction disciplines
- Coordination of a team of specialist construction writers dispersed around England
- Production of resources to a consistently high standard
- Working to a prescribed format
- Timely turnaround of work (including weekends and bank holidays)
- Setting up and monitoring a process of quality control and editorial consistency
- Creation of lesson plans, assessment material, assignments, practical exercises and learning resources
- Time management and coordination of team members
Our areas of expertise
The project covered a wide range of areas of expertise found within the construction industry including:
- Masonry
- Surveying
- Building Information modelling
- Building installation
- Cost and estimation
- Wet and dry finishing
- Health and safety
- Environmental education
- Concrete technology
- Asphalt technology
- Site investigation
- Technical reports
FE Sussex’s writing team created over 80 subject profiles and their deeper content. In addition, each of these subjects had supporting material including associated lesson plans, assessment material and learning resources.
The delivery team:
To deliver the contract FE Sussex recruited and engaged a team of seven curriculum experts all of whom have many years’ experience of working in post-16 education colleges. Alongside these, an experienced editor ensured standards and format of writing was consistent and a functional skills specialist covered the key skills requirements.
A final word:
Heading the project, Dr Tim Strickland, Consultant CEO of FE Sussex commented
“Working with People First has given us the opportunity to show the diverse range of projects that FE Sussex undertakes both as an organisation in its own right and on behalf of its member colleges. We are very proud to be a contractor to this major international project and are delighted at the professionalism and commitment all parties have shown in delivering this large multi-agenda project”
For more information on our project services please contact tim@fesussex.org.uk
Support for New Governance – funded by the ETF
The purpose of this national project is to provide one free of charge day of consultancy (with paid follow-up if required) support to 200 principals of GFE, SFC and ACL colleges and CEOs of Independent Training Providers (ITPs). The project is being managed on behalf of the ETF by Plumpton College and FE Sussex. For more information please contact Tim Strickland on tim@fesussex.org.uk.
First Line Managers Research – funded by the ETF
On behalf of the ETF, FE Sussex is currently undertaking research into a new training programme for First Line Managers. All colleagues across the sector are invited to participate in this research, the aim of which is to identify the titles of modules which will comprise the training programme. Please click the link below for further details.
First Line Managers Research paper 1 FE Sussex 08 08 16
Improving Mathematics in Vocational Education (IMIVE) – funded by DfE directly to FE Sussex
Delivered across Kent, Sussex and Surrey, the IMIVE project is a partnership between colleges and Training Providers to facilitate a step change in the teaching methodologies and resources used to deliver GCSE mathematics to post-16 vocational learners. The effectiveness of these changes will manifest themselves as improvements in learner GCSE outcomes.
The outcomes of the project are:
Workshops – Presentation and handouts from the workshops:
Tim Strickland presentation; Thomas Stone presentation; Sally Betts presentation;
Barbara Nance presentation; Ian Goodwin – Ofsted update; ILP GCSEs;
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Website
- Referral to the Leading GCSE mathematics and English for post-16 learners website.
Self-assessment toolkits:
- One is for Governors/Leaders and Managers and the other is for practitioners/teachers for Maths and English.
- Each toolkit consists of twelve self-assessment questions. Depending on the response to the self-assessment the user is provided with a suggested action plan.
- Please click GCSE-capability-Toolkit-Governors-Managers-31.03.16 for the Governors/Leaders and Managers toolkit.
- Please click GCSE-capability-Toolkit-Practitioners-V3-31.03.16 for the Practitioners/Teachers of Maths and English toolkit.
Professional Exchange Networks (PEN 1) – funded by the ETF via Plumpton College
The PEN (Professional Exchange Networks) project covers the South East Region of, Essex, Kent, Sussex and Surrey. The aim is to develop and facilitate Professional Exchange Networks (PENs) which are accessible, cost effective, locally relevant, teacher needs focused and build on previous work.
Professional Exchange Networks (PEN 2) – funded by the ETF via Eastleigh College
The PEN 2 project covers a selection of Hampshire Colleges. The aim is to develop and facilitate Professional Exchange Networks (PENs) which are accessible, cost effective, locally relevant, teacher needs focused and build on previous work.
GCSE capability: Leadership and Governance to support English and maths – funded by the ETF via Plumpton College
The purpose of the project is to develop and deliver a package of CPD opportunities based on the available resources to support current leaders and governing board members.
Technology in Learning in Sussex (TILIS) – funded by the ETF via the Gazelle Group and project managed by Learning Futures
The Tier 2 TILIS project has been designed to facilitate the management and introduction of learning technology into 14 colleges.
Project activity is divided into two strands, one to support governors, leaders and managers, the other teaching, learning and assessment.
The project focuses specifically on the strategic approach to the introduction of learning technology and the implications for delivery costs following the implementation of FELTAG recommendations. The outcome of the project is self-assessment spreadsheet toolkit for Governors/Leaders and Managers and a calculator to assess cost implications over a three year strategic planning period.
Please click for the Guide for Strategy for Implementing FELTAG.
Please click for the Learning Technology Practitioners Toolkit
GCSE capability: Leadership and Governance to support English and Maths – funded by the ETF
The project’s aim is to ensure governors and strategic leaders of colleges and private training providers are empowered to evaluate and drive improvement in the effectiveness of their strategies for the delivery of GCSE maths and English. The project covers the South East Region of Essex, Kent, Sussex and Surrey.
The outcomes of the project are two self-assessment toolkits. One is for Governors/Leaders and Managers and the other is for practitioners/teachers for Maths and English.
Each toolkit consists of twelve self-assessment questions. Depending on the response to the self-assessment the user is provided with a suggested action plan.
Please click GCSE capability Toolkit – Governors & Managers 25.03.15 for the Governors/Leaders and Managers toolkit.
Please click GCSE capability Toolkit – Practitioners V3 25.03.15 for the Practitioners/Teachers of Maths and English toolkit.
FE and skills development and resource programme – innovation through technology funded by JISC
The project aim is to use technology, with innovative adaption, in the production and implementation of standardised FE Health and Safety resources thereby improving value for money.
The outcome of the project is a website which can be accessed by any member of staff in a SFA funded organisation with an email address ending in ac.uk.
The website provides health and safety documents within recognised categories containing policies, forms, guidelines etc. Each document can be downloaded and used wholly or partially and branded with own college logos.
Please click here to view the website.
Equality and Diversity good practice – funded by the Skills Funding Agency
The aims of this project are two fold:
1 – To use peer group development and working to identify and remove barriers which result in under-representation and stereotyping of apprentices and work based learners with protected characteristics in both the rural and wider workplaces.
2 – To use leading practitioners to establish a physical and virtual staff peer support group to enable the exchange of best practice used in addressing race, gender and disability issues with learners and other staff.
Engineering and Mathematics using Mobile Technology (EMUMT) – funded by the Education Training Foundation
Led by Plumpton College and in conjunction with FE Sussex, the consortia of Sussex colleges, the aim of EMUMT is to improve teaching, learning and assessment through the use of mobile technology.
The EMUMT collaboration involves eleven Sussex and three Surrey colleges.
Please click here for the project report.
Course Costing & Finance Management- funded by the Education Training Foundation
The purpose of this project is to satisfy an immediate need for training in effective course costing and viable delivery models. Aimed at recently appointed and aspiring middle managers and led by Plumpton College, it is delivered in conjunction with FE Sussex, and targets 30 staff drawn from 14 colleges.
Use is made of digital technology by establishing a virtual learning network, webinars and resource repository for support and dissemination purposes. The programme is part of the pan-Sussex colleges’ strategy for managing an effective further education provision against a background of continual funding reduction.
For further details or to discuss any of the above project please contact Tim Strickland on tim@fesussex.org.uk.
Course Costing & Finance Management- funded by the Education Training Foundation
The purpose of this project is to satisfy an immediate need for training in effective course costing and viable delivery models. Aimed at recently appointed and aspiring middle managers and led by Plumpton College, it is delivered in conjunction with FE Sussex, and targets 30 staff drawn from 14 colleges.
The programme is part of the pan-Sussex colleges’ strategy for managing an effective further education provision against a background of continual funding reduction.
The outcome of the project was a series of workshops covering aspects of the financial management of colleges, implications for changes to funding and the importance of increasing from full-cost delivery.
Please click ETF Project Course Costing Impact statement – FINAL for the end of project report.
Engineering and Mathematics using Mobile Technology (EMUMT) – funded by the Education Training Foundation
Led by Plumpton College and in conjunction with FE Sussex, the consortia of Sussex colleges, the aim of EMUMT is to improve teaching, learning and assessment through the use of mobile technology.
The EMUMT collaboration involved eleven Sussex and three Surrey colleges.
Please click Plumpton College and FE Sussex ETF Interim Report V1-2 for the project report.
Curriculum Planning – funded by LSIS
Analysing the detail of the New Funding Methodologies for 2013/14 and the potential implications.
Due Diligence – funding by LSIS
To produce a standard approach to the due diligence process of checking WBL sub-contractor suitability for contracting with a partner college.
ED&I – funded by LSIS
The research of performance data of minority characteristic groups to compile benchmarks for colleges use in connection with their SARS and implementation of ED&I across colleges.
Functional Skills in Sussex – funded by LSIS
Research and evaluation of e-learning resources from a learner and trainer perspective and proof of costing savings compared with classroom delivery.
Health and Safety in Sussex Colleges (HISC) – funded by LSIS
Centred on driving down the cost of maintaining Health and Safety statutory requirements through the standardisation of polices and procedures.
Engineering in Sussex Colleges (EISC) – funded by LSIS
Improving learner engagement and achievement at level one and through linking land based colleges with other engineering departments in Sussex colleges.