Useful links

Here are a selection of web sites that may prove useful to college colleagues. Please let Christine Tyler know if you have found a useful site that is not included here and we will add it to the list.

14-19 Gateway

Action on Access 

Association of Colleges

Association for Learning Technology

Association of Scotland’s Colleges

BBC Learning Zone

BBC news/education

Becta

Bureaucracy Reduction Group (BRG)

Business Innovation and Skills (BIS)

Department for Education (DfE) 

Department for Employment and Learning (NI)

Education/Industry Links

ELWa 

Exam Boards

Excellence Gateway

FE college websites link

FE News

FE Self Regulation 

Framework for Excellence

General Teaching Council (England)

General Teaching Council (Northern Ireland)

General Teaching Council (Scotland)

General Teaching Council (Wales) 

Guardian Education

HERO (Higher Education & Research Opportunities)

The Independent online

Institute for Learning (IfL)

Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC)

JISCmail – free specialist lists

Learning and Skills Improvement Service (LSIS)

Learning and Skills Network

LLUK

MP contact details

National Apprenticeship Service (NAS)

NIACE

Nuffield Review of 14-19 Education

Ofsted

Ofqual

Pearson Centre for Policy and Learning

Qualifications and Curriculum Development Agency (QCDA) 

QCA Northern Ireland

Scottish Funding Council

Scottish Qualifications Authority

Sixth Form Colleges’ Forum

Skills Funding Agency (SFA) 

Teachernet – useful sites

Telegraph, The 

Times Educational Supplement

Transforming Learning Cultures in FE

UCAS

UK Commission for Employment and Skills (UKCES)

Welsh Curriculum Authority (former ACCAC)

Young People’s Learning Agency (YPLA)