The Alliance is a new organisation comprising all 25 licensed UK Sector Skills Councils (SSCs), the employer-driven organisations that together articulate the voice of the employers of more than 85% of the UK's workforce on skills issues.
Works at the leading edge of research and evidence-informed educational policy and practice. Their mission centres on promoting the use of evidence by building bridges between academic research and professional practice. They support practice-driven action research, develop tools for Continuing Professional Development ( CPD ), for organisational leadership and for teaching and learning.
To meet the demands of workforce development, business improvement and the knowledge economy, fdf will seek to stimulate, support and sustain employer partnerships with higher education.
The official agency for the collection, analysis and dissemination of quantitative information about higher education. It was set up by agreement between the relevant government departments, the higher education funding councils and the universities and colleges in 1993, following the White Paper “Higher Education: a new framework”, which called for more coherence in HE statistics, and the 1992 Higher and Further Education Acts, which established an integrated higher education system throughout the United Kingdom.
LSN provides services to policy-makers, to organisations that fund, manage and provide education, and to individual providers and practitioners across education and training.
The Learning and Skills Research Network (LSRN) began in 1997 and was supported by the Learning and Skills Development Agency. It entered a new phase in April 2006 in which it works collaboratively with multiple partner organisations. It is a network based in the regions of England and Northern Ireland with links to partners in Scotland and Wales. It brings together people involved in producing and making use of research in the learning and skills sector and higher education and provides a welcoming atmosphere for those new to research.
Alliance Established in 1997 to provide independent assessment of how higher education institutions in the UK maintain their academic standards and quality. The primary responsibility for academic standards and quality rests with individual institutions. QAA reviews and reports on how well they meet those recommendations, and encourages continuous improvement in the management of the quality of higher education.
ACER was formed in 1993 by further education colleges in the eastern region. They provide a central source of support, development and representation to member colleges.
Covers Bedfordshire and Luton, Cambridgeshire, Essex, Hertfordshire, Norfolk and Suffolk (contact details are listed on the right, under Regional contacts). Working together, aim to develop a responsive system of learning and skills provision that will meet the needs of learners, businesses and communities throughout the East of England, supporting the long term prosperity of our region.
Facts and figures about Norfolk and its seven districts. A wide range of information including 2001 Census data, boundary maps, population projections, Indices of Deprivation and historic populations.
Norfolk Insight (formerly Norfolk Data Observatory) is an information resource for exploring key facts and figures about Norfolk and its local communities.
