OfSTED Inspection Return OfSTED announced this week that full inspections will not return until next summer but there will be a gradual resumption of monitoring visits. This means that due to Covid, full OfSTED inspections will not have been conducted for almost 15 months. Essentially, there has been either no or just light touch monitoring […]
We were asked to do an online demo with a school last week as they were interested in developing their curriculum using Stedfast and we realised that we hadn’t really blogged much about developing a curriculum plan for GCSE subjects. What better time to do this as Storm Francis brings heavy rains, wind and is […]
Staff performance management is a process of ensuring that a set of activities and outputs meets an organisation’s goals in an effective and efficient manner. Education and training providers need to ensure that employees understand expectations and to enable this, leaders need to make sure they are well managed, are motivated and have the skills, […]
It is fair to say that one of the most important developments that have taken place as a result of COVID-19 has been the switch to eLearning and online webinars. For many, this forced transition has come as a bit of shock but it has opened eyes to what is available to deliver online and […]
With the end of apprenticeship frameworks just a few days away we thought it would be timely to write a short article about apprenticeship on programme assessments. Apprenticeship frameworks were typically formed from portfolio-based qualifications. These followed the pattern of selecting the appropriate units, having learners submit evidence to cover the criteria, assessing the evidence […]
We have been doing some work recently on eLearning content for a couple of providers as the COVID pandemic has given them the impetus to upgrade the content in their Learning Management System (LMS). We have used a few tools to do this but it has become clear to us that there isn’t a system […]
Having just finished listening to the excellent Curriculum Design podcast on SecEd I was struck by how the principles that were being discussed for schools curriculum were equally applicable to apprenticeship curriculum design. In the podcast, Matt Bromley was discussing his 6 principles of curriculum design. These are: Agree the vision Set the destination Assess […]
With OfSTED returning to publishing reports for inspections conducted before the coronavirus lockdown, we wanted to remind education and training providers that there will come a time when training programmes will be back in full operation and OfSTED will start to inspect again. After 6 weeks of lockdown, this is probably a good time to […]
With staff now increasingly working from home because of coronavirus, people are going to have to learn how to use online meeting software and also how to make sure they follow the right etiquette. As a business, we use online meeting software a lot. We use it to run demos of Stedfast and also provide […]
There has been a lot of talk about curriculum planning since OfSTED launched the Education Inspection Framework in September 2019. Speaking with providers there is a mixed picture on curriculum development. Some are on top of this, some are confused and others have simply buried their heads in the sand and are hoping that the […]