Ofsted is working with the Department for Education
(DfE), the
Association of Colleges (AoC), the Association of
Employer and Learning Providers (AELP)
and HOLEX to review further education learners’ experience
of online learning during the Covid-19 (coronavirus)
lockdown.
The review aims to provide insights into the sector’s
experiences of online education and to identify areas of
strength and potential for improvement. This will support
post-16 providers re-visiting their online education
strategies, particularly from September 2020 onwards. The
review will look at the online education that providers are
delivering in light of the necessary social distancing
measures
Her Majesty’s Inspectors will carry out the review during
June and will speak remotely to managers, teachers and
trainers in volunteer further education colleges and skills
providers that have volunteered to discuss their delivery
of online teaching and learning.
In particular, inspectors will speak to students and
apprentices about their experience of learning online and
the support they have received for this. This will be done
by phone and a report on the findings will be published in
due course.
The review is not an inspection. There will be no
inspection judgements and no inspection consequences for
the provider. Involvement in the review is entirely
voluntary.
Data gathered during the review will be confidential and
staff, students and apprentices will not be identified.
