FE providers benefit from scheme to boost teaching workforce
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Skills Minister Anne Milton announced today the first 37 providers
to receive funding from the Taking Teaching Further (TTF)
programme, which has been set up to help recruit the best and
brightest candidates from industry into the post-16 and further
education workforce and support an ongoing exchange between
industry and FE. The colleges and providers, in areas ranging
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Skills Minister Anne Milton announced today the first 37 providers to receive funding from the Taking Teaching Further (TTF) programme, which has been set up to help recruit the best and brightest candidates from industry into the post-16 and further education workforce and support an ongoing exchange between industry and FE. The colleges and providers, in areas ranging from Cumbria and Northumberland, to Kent and Norwich, will aim to recruit the country’s first 80 TTF teachers from specific sectors and encourage them to retrain to work in those institutions. Alongside the support to train new teachers, 20 innovative projects are also being funded totalling over £900,000 to explore how industry and the further education sector can work together to make sure students gain the knowledge and skills businesses really need. Taking Teaching Further was launched in June as a pilot programme to further boost the quality of the post-16 teaching workforce by bringing in more diverse experiences and skills. The scheme represents one part of the government’s wider investment in the further education sector as it prepares to introduce the first gold standard T Level qualifications from 2020 – high-quality technical courses equivalent to A levels. T Levels will provide young people with the cutting-edge skills and experience they need to secure a good job or progress into further training. Apprenticeships and Skills Minister Anne Milton said:
Chief Executive of the Education and Training Foundation David Russell said:
Taking Teaching Further focuses on supporting priority sectors, including the first T Level subjects to be taught –Education and Childcare, Digital, and Construction – as well as Engineering and Manufacturing and other STEM subjects. The next round will open for applications in December. The first 3 T Levels will be taught in more than 50 colleges from 2020, with the remaining 22 phased in after that. This landmark reform will provide young people with a genuine choice between technical and academic education post-16. Colleges and FE providers to host the first TTF teachers:
Colleges and FE providers to run first projects:
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