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On this page, you will find examples of good practice and outcomes from current and completed projects that we have run:

Leadership of LSIPs

AoC and the Gatsby Foundation worked with trailblazer colleges who had been successful in Local Skills Improvement Plan (LSIP) and Strategic Development Fund Pilots (SDFs) to share good practice and lessons learnt.

We published two resources, a thought leadership article and a checklist, prepared by Stone King LLP. Entitled Thinking about successful college collaboration, the resources are complementary and have been prepared to help colleges, their governing bodies and leaders explore and implement successful collaboration.

The following video case studies were also created as part of this project - click on a name to hear more from a colleague:


A Post-Covid-19 Edtech Strategy

Between March and July 2020, we carried out research into colleges’ capacity to enable high-quality distance learning with support from Ufi VocTech Trust.

Findings from the research have been used to create a post-Covid EdTech strategy for the college sector. To ensure no learner is left behind, we worked with Jisc to build a case for the following.

  1. Funding to create a national online repository of high-quality interactive content specifically designed for vocational and skills-based delivery.

  2. Increased funding to ensure accessibility for all FE learners to online resources is safeguarded through resilient and reliable connectivity.

  3. Investment in the development and adoption of new assessment methodologies designed for secure remote delivery.

  4. Capital investment ring-fenced for the FE digital estate.

  5. Supporting sector professionals to augment education where appropriate utilising digital assistants, automated workflows, data analytics, flexible working and reduced workflow.

  6. The digital infrastructure required to support a skills-led recovery.

There are recordings and presentations from all of the webinars in the series, which can be found on the teaching and learning page on our website.

The Scholarship Project

The Scholarship Project was a three-year project funded by the HEFCE Catalyst Fund, and it supported the development and embedding of a distinct college higher education scholarly ethos across the sector.

The Scholarship Framework was created as the project's main output. The framework has more than 50 resources and toolkits to help colleges with a higher education (HE) offering which enhances scholarly activity, including student scholarly activity, peer review and employer engagement.

For more information and to access the resources and toolkits, visit The Scholarship Framework website.

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