Resources

Beacon Awards

UK Skills is an independent organisation which champions skills and learning for work through competitions, awards and events.

Italian Teachers' Forum

Information Exchange for Italian teachers

Leitch Review of Skills

The Government commissioned Sandy Leitch in 2004 to undertake an independent review of the UK's long term skills needs. The Review published its interim report "Skills in the UK: the long term challenge" in December 2005. It committed the Review, in its final report, to identify the UK's optimal skills mix for 2020 to maximise economic growth, productivity and social justice, set out the balance of responsibility for achieving that skills profile and consider the policy framework required to support it.

Raising Expectations: Enabling the system to deliver

The Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF) and the Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills (DIUS) published the White Paper Raising Expectations: Enabling the System to Deliver on March 17 2008 to consult on how to implement proposed reforms to education and training for pre-19 and post-19 learners.

Further Education; Raising Skills, Improving Life Chances

The Department for Education and Skills published this FE Reform White Paper on 27th March 2006.

LSC CoVE Guidance

The CoVE programme is central to the Learning and Skills Council's task of improving skills for employment and national competitiveness. The programme is primarily focused on delivering skills at level 3 and will enable the development, maintenance and delivery of high quality, specialist provision across a range of vocational areas