Teaching and Learning in Further Education: The Ofsted Factor

Autor/in	Burnell, Iona
Titel	Teaching and Learning in Further Education: The Ofsted Factor
Quelle	In: Journal of Further and Higher Education, 41 (2017) 2, S.227-237 (11 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0309-877X
DOI	10.1080/0309877X.2015.1117599
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Adult Education; Adult Learning; Postsecondary Education; Educational Change; Vocational Education; Teacher Qualifications; Labor Force Development; Inspection; Program Implementation; Educational Policy; Colleges; Observation; School Policy; Models; United Kingdom (London) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Adult; Adults; Education; Adult basic education; Adult training; Erwachsenenbildung; Adulte education; Post-secondary education; Tertiäre Bildung; Bildungsreform; Ausbildung; Berufsbildung; Lehrqualifikation; Arbeitskräftebestand; Prüfverfahren; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; College; Hochschule; Fachhochschule; Beobachtung; Schulpolitik; Analogiemodell
Abstract	The further education (FE) sector in the UK, or post-compulsory education as it is often referred to, has undergone some radical changes in recent years. Historically, FE is synonymous with vocational education and training, providing communities with courses that tended to be in practical, non-academic subjects. Many FE lecturers came from industries such as construction and engineering and were vital in providing the subject knowledge needed by colleges to enable them to offer a wide provision of courses. However, FE had not undergone the regime of teacher qualifications, regulation and inspection to the extent experienced by schools. In 2001, the New Labour government began a series of reforms that would overhaul post-compulsory education with the objective of making the sector more effective, and thereby meeting the wider objective of creating a more productive workforce. One of the many reforms was to introduce a system of inspection by placing FE into Ofsted's remit. The new reform prompted FE colleges, for the first time, to implement their own institutional policies of observing teaching and learning (OTL) in order to prepare for impending inspection by Ofsted. This article examines the implementation of the policy of OTL, with a focus on one college of FE, and scrutinises its effects on the sector. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01