The Office for Students (OfS) funded a ten-month action learning set project that brought together higher education and healthcare professionals to identify and solve problems around joined-up working to support student mental health. This report documents the main takeaways from the project. To read the article click here

This guidance sets out how the OfS plans to carry out the external quality assurance (EQA) of end-point assessment. This document provides operational guidance about:

• the OfS’s approach to ensuring end-point assessment organisations are ready to deliver end-point assessment
• the OfS’s approach to monitoring the quality of end-point assessment
• the assessment team
• the assessment reports.            To read the article click here

Alan has summarised HTQ’s and their development and has analysed the funding. (HTQs) are defined by the DfE as new Level 4 or 5 vocational qualifications, or existing Level 4 and 5 vocational qualifications, such as Higher National Certificates (HNCs), Higher National Diplomas (HNDs) and Foundation Degrees (FDs). New digital HTQs are already available and the DfE says that the aim is that by 2025, new HTQ courses will be available in all vocational subject areas with IfATE approved occupational standards. To read the article click here

A new report from the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IfS) entitled ‘What has happened to college teacher pay in England’ was published on 30 March. Findings in the report include the following:- Please click on the link to read Alan’s expert summary of what has happened over the last ten years in comparison to schoolteachers and inflation.

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