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Foreword Whatever type of education or training you offer, the drive for excellence has to be at the core of your operation. Andrew Thomson, Chief Executive, Quality Improvement Agency Welcome to the updated and refreshed version of the Raising Standards Guides. Produced previously by the DfES Skills for Life Strategy Unit, the Guides are now the responsibility of QIA, the agency established to accelerate the capacity of the learning and skills sector to pursue excellence through self-improvement. The Guides contribute to our improvement strategy, Pursuing Excellence, at the heart of which is better teaching, better learning and greater success for learners. Our endeavour is to spark fresh enthusiasm for innovation and excellence, wherever learning is taking place. We are leading the challenge to those of you involved in teaching, learning and training to lift your performance and implement the Government’s reforms for learning and skills. The Guides may come to you through the QIA Skills for Life Improvement Programme and we hope will prove to be a valuable tool. They have been designed to help you as teachers, trainers and managers to improve the quality of your work with learners in literacy, language and numeracy. Much has been achieved since the launch of Skills for Life in 2001: 1.75 million learners have achieved a first Skills for Life qualification and 4.7 million have undertaken Skills for Life programmes. However, much still remains to be done, and Skills for Life continues to be a key government priority. Lord Leitch’s recent review of skills, Prosperity for All in the Global Economy: World-class skills, confirmed the UK’s serious skills deficit and the need to treble current achievement rates in basic skills. He called for more investment in training and more demand-led provision with employers’ needs being given greater priority. Ambitious targets to be achieved by 2020 were described in his review and confirmed in the government’s response World Class Skills: Implementing the Leitch Review of Skills in England, published in late 2007: • 95 per cent of adults to have functional literacy and numeracy skills • more than 90 per cent of adults to be qualified to at least Level 2 • 1.9 million more people achieving Level 3 • 40 per cent of adults to be qualified at Level 4 and above. 2 Delivering Skills for Life: the national strategy for improving adult literacy and numeracy skills
The Leitch review reiterated the link between vocational excellence and competence in Skills for Life. Evidence from research confirms that learner achievement is enhanced when Skills for Life is taught within a vocational setting. To this end, there is a growing shift to more personally tailored programmes to match the needs of individual learners, and a continued emphasis on embedding good practice across the whole organisation. We hope the Raising Standards Guides, which are based on the Common Inspection Framework, will help you look at what you need to do to achieve success with your learners, how you can go about it and how you will know you have succeeded. Teachers, trainers and managers often know what they have to do but are not always sure how to tackle change. Each contextual Guide in the series of thirteen helps to bridge the gap between understanding generic advice on improving quality and taking effective action in the learning context or setting that is specific to you. The growing emphasis on self-regulation and quality management will see you taking greater responsibility for knowing your own organisation’s strengths, weaknesses and areas for development. The updated Guides reflect the importance of self-improvement, with materials to help you prepare for self-assessment, annual assessment visits and the introduction of the Framework for Excellence in 2008. The Guides are about supporting you as you raise standards and quality by becoming more critical and creative in developing self-supported quality improvements. The Guides form part of a wider armoury of tools and materials to help you with self-improvement. We have provided updated links to valuable tools and website resources, such as the Skills for Life Health Check, available through the Skills for Life Improvement Programme. Acquiring and improving Skills for Life makes a real difference to the lives of learners, as the case studies in these Guides illustrate over and over again. We know that more people need to have the opportunity to play their part in contributing to economic prosperity and social justice. The power to change things for the better lies in your hands. We aim to support you in creating a better learning and skills sector for learners, employers, communities, society and the economy. I recommend these Guides to you. Jenny Burnette Director, Strategic Reform and Development Delivering Skills for Life: the national strategy for improving adult literacy and numeracy skills 3
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