Amended 19/9/2008
Ofsted inspects and regulates a whole swathe of English public sector education including schools, colleges, and work-based learning provision. How colleges improve [150 kB PDF, 32 pages], published on 12/9/2008, lists the characteristics of further education colleges that improved their performance between the first and second cycle Ofsted inspections, and describes the factors impeding change in those colleges judged by Ofsted to be satisfactory but not improving in second cycle inspections. Some of the descriptions of specific college weaknesses (and strengths) are instructive and authentic. There is one reference to personalisation (serving to show maybe that policy priorities flow slowly around the system), and the treatment of ICT, e-learning, and online learning, is very limited. (The latter is probably a consequence either of ICT in learning not really being on the radar of Ofsted or its inspectors, or of ICT in learning being too specific an issue to reach into a general review of this kind.)
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