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Gavin O'Meara
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Gillian Keegan T Levels 1
Sep 15, 202000:13:59Tap to summarizeGillian Keegan T Levels 1
Transcribe →The challenges and opportunities of recruiting End Point Assessors, Beth Curtis, Protocol
Feb 12, 202000:06:16Tap to summarizeBeth Curtis, Protocol discusses recruiting End Point Assessors and Dual Professionalism at EPA Live. Beth discusses the two routes to attracting End Point Assessors: One from the instructors and assessors who were delivering Frameworks, but as Beth explains End Point Assessment is very different and the importance of occupational competence and particularly logging CPD of occupational competence is key for End Point Assessment organisations. The second group is to attract people from industry, but a lot of work needs to be done to raise awareness of Apprenticeships to professionals. There is also the potential problem that in some occupations the salaries will be very different in some roles and the sector needs to think about how they can become an attractive employer to industry professionals moving into FE and Work Based Learning. Check out the podcast to hear what Beth has to say.
Transcribe →Lucy Hunte EPALive
Feb 11, 202000:12:19Tap to summarizeLucy Hunte EPALive
Transcribe →Richard Meredith from OneFile discusses Ofsted and evidencing learner progress
Feb 10, 202000:05:39Tap to summarizeRichard Meredith from OneFile discusses Ofsted at EPA Live in Wembley. Richard discusses evidencing learner progress for Ofsted and explained that he was recently attending the Ofsted review for 16-19 and how Ofsted are now particularly interested and making a shift to the impact on a learner. He explains this is particularly around the learner journey, where have they progressed from, where are they now, what are they progressing into. With this in mind and particularly looking at the Three I's of Ofsted (Intent, Implementation and Impact) Richard makes some helpful recommendations and useful ways to evidence a learners progress.
Transcribe →Lucy 2
Feb 6, 202000:07:00Tap to summarizeLucy Dunleavy
Transcribe →Lucy Dunleavy from LearnBox discusses the modern learner and the future of learner engagement
Feb 6, 202000:07:00Tap to summarizeFE News chat with Lucy Dunleavy, Founder and CEO of LearnBox about the modern learner and the future of learner engagement at the EPA Live conference. Lucy explains that the modern learner is time shy, easily distracted and needs bite sized training to meet their needs. Lifelong learning is changing, the non accredited lifelong learning route could involve Googling a problem or watching a YouTube video to learn something like DIY or to solve a problem such as fixing a boiler. When then explore what the FE and Skills sector can learn from the modern learner and how we can engage them with accredited training, particularly how to engage learners out of the classroom. Lucy explains that bite sized micro accreditation is a fantastic way to build an accredited lifelong learning strategy. LearnBox are best known for using video to deliver bite sized training for Functional Skills, and the results / outcomes have been incredibly positive. We ask Lucy, what can the sector learn from this, particularly with new ways of engaging learners. She explains that the World Economic Forum list the most important skills for the future are Creative thinking, critical thinking and problem solving and Lucy highlights that these should be taught and drawn out in schools, if not in adult education to enable these core skills for the future. We then ask Lucy for her views on how to teach learners to learn to learn, to be ready for the jobs and skills requirements of the future.
Transcribe →Leonie Thompson, NOCN discussing End Point Assessment
Feb 5, 202000:05:47Tap to summarizeFE News chat with Leonie Thompson, EPA Manager from NOCN about the systems and procedures that are a part of the End Point Assessment process. Leonie then goes onto chat about aligning curriculum to Apprenticeship Standards, Planning for a successful Gateway and finishes with some top tips to ensure a successful End Point Assessment
Transcribe →Richard Marsh EPALive
Feb 3, 202000:09:34Tap to summarizeRichard Marsh EPALive
Transcribe →Tom Burton NOCN, EPA Live
Jan 30, 202000:10:37Tap to summarizeTom Burton NOCN, EPA Live Jan 2020
Transcribe →Diagnostic Assessments and continual improvement with Richard Atkins FE Commissioner
Jan 27, 202000:19:10Tap to summarizeFE News chat with FE Commissioner, Richard Atkins about his role as the FE Commissioner, particularly how the majority of his role which is supporting and developing the 240 FE Colleges across the sector. Richard explains that although his role is perceived to be all about dramatic college interventions with failing colleges, this is incredibly rare and only happens on a very small handful of minor cases. The majority of Richard's role is developing a consultancy support service for colleges to continually develop and improve the 240 FE Colleges that are incorporated. Richard discusses the National Leaders of FE and National Leaders of Governance and the Diagnostic Assessment service rolled out by his team to over 60 colleges. This is a free service to help high performing colleges as well as colleges that are struggling or looking to improve. Richard explains that it takes time to deliver long term sustainable improvements (it took him 7 years in his previous College Principal role) and he sees this as the norm for it to take time to deliver excellence. Richard goes on to explore how we can continually support and improve the sector, whilst trying to remove the stigma of asking for help and support. He then goes onto give some recommendations from the best strategies and processes he has seen in colleges. After hearing about all of the many support structures in place for FE Colleges, we then go onto ask Richard for his own views to see if a support structure should be in place for Training Providers.
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