DfES

DfES Consultation: Success for All

220kb Date 11/2003

Success for All, subtitled Reforming Further Education and Training. This has 4 main emphases: strategic planning, professional development, teaching and learning, and accountability.

Key Recommendations:

• Success for All to be phased in over the next three years
• Strategic Area Reviews from April 2003
• DfES Standards Unit set up to develop good practice materials and associated teacher training
• National Leadership College to develop the sector’s present and future managers
• All providers to review their mission statements
• Providers to draw up three-year development plans with four headline targets on learner numbers, employee engagement, success rates and professional qualifications for teachers and lecturers
• Providers to receive a 2 per cent increase in real terms on agreeing the development plan with local LSC Colleges that meet targets to receive annual 2.5 percent increases in real terms, excellent colleges to get annual 3.5 per cent increases in real terms and poor performing colleges to get inflation increases and intervention
• Colleges and other educational institutions to get three-year funding instead of one-year funding, with no clawback and no “efficiency gains”
• New funding schemes for work-based learning providers to be inflation proofed for three years
• Report of the Bureaucracy Task Force to be implemented in colleges and a new task force to be set up to look at red tape in work-based learning
• Selected colleges will pilot schemes to build a new relationship of mutual trust with the LSC