Education and training services

Tender description

The Foundation are seeking to work with further education and training providers to deliver collaborative projects looking at how to improve teaching, learning and assessment to increase learner progress. This is part of the wider Outstanding Teaching, Learning and Assessment (OTLA) programme. The OTLA programme draws together the Foundation’s activity to support practitioners to improve and develop their practice. The 2 aims of the OTLA programme are to: — Improve the quality of teaching, learning and assessment in the FE and training sector and, — Support increased professionalism for practitioners in the sector. OTLA is underpinned by the Professional Standards. The programme is made up of 4 different strands. This tender is for delivery of work in the collaborative projects strand. The Foundation has identified several key problems around progress that are impacting on learner outcomes across the sector.Collaborative projects should use these problems as a starting point, honing and contextualising them for their own setting and learners, asking themselves the questions, ‘Does this issue apply to my context?’ and ‘What evidence do I have that is the case?’. They may address more than one problem given their interconnectivity. Projects should identify a clear way in which they plan to address their problem, drawing on research. Please note that collaborative projects cannot be used as a vehicle to implement organisation wide systems or software platforms.