The School Improvement Partnership Programme: Sustaining Collaboration and Enquiry to Tackle Educational Inequity

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Interim evaluation of lifelong learning networks

The Open University's Centre for Higher Education Research and Information was commissioned in June 2007 to undertake a formative evaluation of Lifelong Learning Networks (LLNs). Research to inform the interim evaluation has been two-fold: desk research of LLN documentation and visits to and interviews with personnel involved in eight LLNs. The report's main conclusion was that LLNs are making progress in terms of encouraging institutions to offer curricula and put in place procedures that, in the fullness of time, could make a significant difference to the coherence, clarity and certainty of progression opportunities for vocational learners. However, it went on to say that it is too soon to be able to make substantive and well-evidenced statements about LLNs' overall progress on meeting this overarching objective of the LLN initiative

The elements of successful work placement processes: A case study of three Technical Vocational Education and Training (TVET) Colleges

Many research documents indicate that learners’ ability to transition from education and training to employment is closely linked to their work placement experience during their studies and on exit from their respective qualifications. This study identifies and analyses successful work placement practices through case studies, to understand which elements have supported TVET Colleges to facilitate the successful placement of their learners. The study starts with a historic overview of the Colleges to provide the context. It then moves on to explore, through secondary research, what the literature says about the identified elements which are institutional responsiveness; Work Integrated (WIL) units, curriculum relevance, partnerships and work readiness and their contribution to the transition from education to employment. The literature analysis was used to formulate key research questions for the primary research with three metro TVET Colleges, to explore how these Colleges have responded to the elements identified. The responses from the interviewees were used to extract the learnings from their practice and to draw out the elements that are key contributors to the successful placement of TVET learners

Innovation 2.0: Grantmaking to Transform America's Education Systems

As social and technological forces reshape the environment, the educational landscape is being similarly transfigured as parents, employers, policymakers and students grow impatient with incremental efforts to reform a broken system. Too often such efforts have proven both slow and inadequate to the evolving needs of learners: Innovations have been inequitably distributed, promising solutions have been difficult to implement at scale. Yet the signs of widespread change are real, and there is little doubt that transformation has begun