Education and Training Foundation and Jisc announce collaborative working agreement to deliver FELTAG recommendations

17 November 2014

Today the Education and Training Foundation, the sector-owned body charged with professional development of the education and training workforce, and Jisc are joining together to respond to the recommendations of the further education learning and technology advisory group ( FELTAG ) report and the Government's response in June 2014.

The joint approach seeks to best serve the interests of the education and training sector by combining and sharing expertise and effort, avoiding duplication, and ensuring the effective use of digital technologies in teaching, learning, assessment and business support.

The Foundation and Jisc will together focus on:

• developing the technology capabilities of leaders, managers and governors
• helping providers and practitioners to create better digital content
• engaging employers so as to improve access to cutting edge industry-standard technologies
• providing support and combining the networks and contacts of both organisations to ensure maximum audience reach.

Jenny Williams, director of vocational education and training at the Foundation comments:

“Collaboration will ensure that duplication of effort is avoided, that our individual steams of work are set within the context of the wider recommendations, that our ideas and thoughts are shared outside our direct organisational remits and that our support is joined up and cohesive.”   

Nigel Ecclesfield, head of change implementation support programmes in further education and skills, Jisc, says:

“Working with the Foundation will enable us to contribute to the important work being commissioned under their Learning Futures and other Foundation programmes, and bring their perspective into play in supporting the work of the substantive Jisc programmes running alongside those they have commissioned themselves.

We are pleased that the Foundation will be supporting our co-design work with the sector. Through this collaboration we hope to ensure that we make best use of our resources and provide access to the materials and services that will support the sector in its use of digital technologies.”

The first collaborative activities will include sharing the results of both organisations’ sector-based action research projects, ensuring funding is directed to respond to different FELTAG recommendations without duplicating effort and, where appropriate, providing professional support to each other’s programmes of work. 

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