Useful Links: FHE

External links for Further & Higher Education

 

 

News/information: 

 

Diplomas/14-19

 

Vocational learning: Qualifications and Credit Framework (QCF)

 

QIA Excellence Gateway  

 

Talisman, the Ofsted newspaper for the learning and skills sector

 

14-19 Gateway Guidance 

 

www.dcsf.gov.uk/14-19

 

Foundation Learning Tier

 

Institute for Learning

 

Skills Strategy Web site (DCSF/DIUS)

 

Welsh Skills 

 

 

Latest education news (BBC)

 

Latest news from DCFS

 

European Qualifications Framework (EQF)

 

 

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 

 

College and University Support Network (CUSN)

 
 
Other useful Links:

 

Higher Education

 

Framework for Higher Education Qualifications in England, Wales & Northern Ireland

 

Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS (previously BERR)

 

 

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  

 

Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (previously DIUS)

 

QIA Excellence Gateway

 

Learning & Skills Gateway

 

Adult Learning Inspectorate

 

Further Educational National Training Organisation (FENTO)

 

Learndirect  Careers Advice Service (learndirect Careers Advice)

 

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 

 

Learning and Skills Improvement Service (LSIS)

 

Learning and Skills Network

 

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 Government: Education and Training

 

Learndirect Scotland

 

Scottish Further and Higher Education Funding Council (SFC)

 

Scottish Qualifications Authority (SQA)

 

Scottish Credit and Qualifications Framework (SCQF)

 

 

Wales 

 

ACCAC


WAG: Education and Skills / LCC: Addysg a sgiliau

 

 

Northern Ireland

 

Department of Education Northern Ireland

 

CCEA (Northern Ireland Council for the Curriculum, Examinations and Assessment)

 

 
European Union

 

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