External links for Further & Higher Education
News/information:
Diplomas
QIA Excellence Gateway
14-19 Gateway Guidance
www.dfes.gov.uk/14-19
Foundation Learning Tier
Institute for Learning
Skills Strategy Web site (DfES/DIUS)
Welsh Skills
Latest education news (BBC)
Latest news from DCFS
Leitch Review/Skills Strategy (2007):
Government publishes new skills ambitions (DIUS)
World Class Skills: Implementing the Leitch Review of Skills in England
Leitch Review
Foster Review (November 2005)
TSN
Teacher Support Line: Lecturers
Higher Education
Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills (DIUS)
Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform (DBERR)
DfES Higher Education page
Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE)
Institute of Learning and Teaching (ILT)
Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education (QAA)
Universities and Colleges Employers Association (UCEA)
Universities UK
Further Education
DCFS Further Education page
Learning & Skills Gateway
Adult Learning Inspectorate
Further Educational National Training Organisation (FENTO)
Learndirect
Learning and Skills Council
Learning and Skills Development Agency (LSDA):
Quality Improvement Agency (QIA): www.qia.org.uk
Learning and Skills Network (LSN): www.lsda.org.uk/lsn
Modern Apprenticeships
Ofsted Ofsted: College inspections
QCA (Qualifications and Curriculum Authority)
openQUALS (QCA’s searchable database of accredited qualifications)
Success for All
Association of Colleges
Teachers’ Pensions (England & Wales)
Technical and Vocational Education and Training UK (TVET UK)
Scotland
Scottish Executive: Enterprise and Lifelong Learning Department
Learndirect Scotland
Scottish Further and Higher Education Funding Council (SFC)
Scottish Qualifications Authority (SQA)
Wales
National Assembly: Learning Wales / Cynulliad Cenedlaethol Cymru: Dysgu Cymru
ACCAC
Welsh Education and Skills
Northern Ireland
Department of Education Northern Ireland
CCEA (Northern Ireland Council for the Curriculum, Examinations and Assessment)
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