Wyggeston and Queen Elizabeth I College (wqe) is a sixth form college, located in Leicester, England. The college is led by Paul Wilson who was appointed the eighth principal in March 2018. The college absorbed the nearby Regent College in 2018 to form an institution with approximately 2,000 full-time 16–18-year-old students and 140 teaching staff. More than 40 subjects are offered at A Level.
The Emmanuel Schools Foundation (ESF) is a charitable trust which has been involved in education since 1989.
The Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) was a non-departmental public body in the United Kingdom, which was responsible for the distribution of funding for higher education to universities and further education colleges in England since 1992. It ceased to exist as of 1 April 2018, when its duties were divided between the newly created Office for Students and Research England.
Sussex Downs College is the largest further education college in East Sussex, providing education and training from foundation to degree level. The college educates almost half of the county's young people and over 8,000 adults each year at campuses in Lewes, Eastbourne and Newhaven, and in the workplace. It remained an independent college until March 2018 where it merged with Sussex Coast College to form East Sussex College Group (ESCG). It is currently being rebranded as East Sussex College Eastbourne following the merger.
The Higher Education Academy (HEA) was a British professional institution promoting excellence in higher education. It was jointly owned by Universities UK and GuildHE and publicly funded. The HEA advocated evidence-based teaching methods and awards fellowships as a method of professional recognition for university teachers. The HEA was responsible for the UK Professional Standards Framework for higher education practitioners. On 21 March 2018, the HEA merged with the Leadership Foundation and the Equality Challenge Unit to form Advance HE.
The HEA had premises in York Science Park, Heslington.
SSAT, the Schools, Students and Teachers network is a UK-based, independent educational membership organisation working with primary, secondary, special and free schools, academies and UTCs. Its work is focused on providing support and training in four main areas: teaching and learning, curriculum, networking, and leadership development.
Beacon Status was a progressive educational initiative that the United Kingdom implemented based on the idea that organizational learning could be advanced through a competitive process of identifying successful organizations and recruiting them to disseminate their good practices. The beacon status initiative was launched by the Department for Education and Skills (DfES) in partnership with the Learning and Skills Council (LSC) in 1998 and ran through to August 2005 for primary and secondary schools in England and Wales. Beacon Status was for providers funded by the Learning and Skills Council, which are mainly Further Education colleges. The Learning and Skills Improvement Service was still awarding Beacon Status in 2011.
Weston College of Further and Higher Education is a general college of further and higher education in Weston-super-Mare, Somerset, England. It provides education and vocational training from age 14 to adult. In 2015, the college provided education to approximately 30,000 enrolled learners. It is regarded as one of the top FE colleges in the UK. The college is part of the 9th largest college group in the UK.
Community education, also known as community-based education or community learning & development, is an organization's programs to promote learning and social development work with individuals and groups in their communities using a range of formal and informal methods. A common defining feature is that programmes and activities are developed in dialogue with communities and participants. The purpose of community learning and development is to develop the capacity of individuals and groups of all ages through their actions, the capacity of communities, to improve their quality of life. Central to this is their ability to participate in democratic processes.
AoC NILTA is a membership services organisation which leads and lobbies for the development and use of ICT and e-learning across the post-16 education sector. The membership consists of full members, affiliate members and commercial members.
The Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport in the UK is the membership organisation for professionals involved in the movement of goods and people and their associated supply chains. It is the UK National Council of CILT International.
UK Youth is a national youth work charity founded in 1911 that delivers national programmes to provide opportunities to young people. The charity is an umbrella body with 40 local youth associations from across England. UK Youth's national programmes are delivered locally in partnership with its members, and many are supported by corporate partners.
Bedford College is a further education college located in Bedford, Bedfordshire, England. It is the principal further education provider in the Borough of Bedford, and is a member of the Collab Group of high performing schools.
The Institute for Learning (IfL) was a voluntary membership, UK professional body. It ceased operating on 31 October 2014. Although precise membership figures and statistical details had been removed from IfL's webpage prior to its closure, at the end of financial year 2013-2014 IfL were reported as having only 33,500 of their 200,000 members remaining.
Truro and Penwith College is a Tertiary College and Further Education College in Cornwall in the United Kingdom.
The Council for Dance, Drama and Musical Theatre—CDMT is the quality assurance and membership body for the professional dance, drama and musical theatre industries. CDMT was founded in 1979 and it is the industry body offering quality assurance and membership services to institutions delivering training, education and assessment in dance, drama and musical theatre.
Landex – ‘Land Based Colleges Aspiring to Excellence’ is a subscriber organisation with 39 member Colleges and Universities in England and across the United Kingdom. To qualify for membership, the provider must deliver significant volumes of land based education and training in at least six SIC* occupational areas.
Glasgow Kelvin College is a further education college in Glasgow, Scotland, which was formed 1 November 2013 from the merger of John Wheatley College, Stow College and North Glasgow College. The College is named after the scientist Lord Kelvin as a statement of its intent to promote engineering and scientific education programmes.
