BERA have just published our editorial series of blogs based on transforming lives and communities; which draws on the FE research project Here is a link to it.
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Interim report: Further education in England – Transforming lives and communities
The Interim research report for the FE: Transforming Lives has just been published. In this interim research report we provide key evidence, drawn from the data, of the transformational power of Further Education (FE). We highlight FE as a critical catalyst for positive changes in learners’ lives, their families and their local and wider community.…
A call for greater investment in FE
The Transforming Lives and Communities project provides powerful evidence of the impact that Further Education (FE) has on people’s lives. These changes may begin in individual learners but they extend and take root beyond them – impacting on their families, communities and wider society. FE challenges inequality and is a vital space and source for social…
Why FE is a lifeline for its learners
In this TES article, Vicky and Rob give an overview of the FE transforms project. https://www.tes.com/news/further-education/breaking-views/why-fe-a-lifeline-its-learners
Transformational Further Education: Empowering People & Communities
The project researchers have contributed a blog post to the Association for Learning Technology Blog. This post focuses on how the project has used different digital platforms and media as integral asepcts of the underpinning research methodology. Here is the link: http://Transformational Further Education: Empowering People & Communities
PLEASE SIGN LETTER TO ROBERT HALFON MP FE TRANSFORMS COMMUNITIES – FUNDING FE MATTERS
New letter to minister Robert Halfon MP in a call to Fund Further Education.
PLEASE SUPPORT AND SIGN. FURTHER EDUCATION MATTERS.
IT TRANSFORMS LIVES AND COMMUNITIES.
Resilience: Stories of Adult Learning
Learner stories were collected from across Australia and the United Kingdom, and include voices spanning much of the earth. The anthology originated in two national adult literacies organisations whose members wanted told the stories of the resilience of learners and the value of developing literacies through lifelong and lifewide learning. This is the latest collection…
Stories of Transformation
Transformation. This simple word can mean so much – an untended forgotten garden, with care and nurturing, can transform into a fertile landscape of colour and vibrancy that breathes life into the air… And yet if forgotten, if it remains neglected, it withers, fades and never fulfils what it has the capacity or indeed hidden potential to be… For us transformation…
Reimagining Further Education Conference
Time to Reimagine Suzanne Savage reports on a recent conference at Birmingham City university: “While the government and media continue focussing on the growing number of young people entering universities at age 18, there is a notable absence of attention to the two-thirds of 16-18 year olds who attend a further education college in England.…
FE: the failure of data and State-istics to tell the real story
Don’t Talk FE down! It does a vital job! Another week, another stinging attack on Further Education by the outgoing Head of Ofsted, Sir Michael Wilshaw. This time, at the Baker Dearing Conference on 21 July in central London, Sir Michael Wilshaw talked about “an alarming rate of underperformance and failure, especially when we remember…