Case Studies

Embedding Maths and English in Workplace Delivery: Essex County Council

Sally England is Curriculum Lead for Functional Skills Working Lives in Essex County Council, which comes under the Council’s Adult Community Learning umbrella. Sally’s team works with around 400 apprentices across a range of specialisms – Health & Social Care, Business Admin, Management, Children & Young People, Support Work in Schools – and roughly a […]

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Embedding maths and English in workplace delivery – Cheshire College

  Charlotte Bradley works at the Crewe Campus of Cheshire College – South and West, a large College with around 7,000 learners including 1,400 apprentices. Charlotte is a GCSE English Lecturer mainly for the 16-19 classroom-based learning but increasingly for apprentices as well. She gives curriculum support to coordinate exams across the college after being […]

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Embedding maths and English in workplace delivery – FW Solutions Ltd

Kate Woolley is a Teaching and Learning Coordinator at a family-owned training company based in Harrogate, FW Solutions. The company offers apprenticeships and other qualifications in a wide range of areas from childcare and teaching assistant to leadership and management. Kate’s role involves supporting learning in the workplace for childcare qualifications from Level 2 to […]

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Embedding maths and English in apprenticeship workplace delivery – Gloucestershire County Council

Becci Allen works for Gloucestershire County Council in the adult education service. There are two parts to the service, the community based learning and accredited skills. Becci’s role falls under accredited skills which covers the Functional Skills team and also the apprenticeships section, which Becci runs with a colleague. This is growing rapidly with demand […]

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Regional Specialist Leads: Improving maths and English delivery on apprenticeship programmes

Bob Read is the Education and Training Foundation’s Regional Specialist Lead for Maths and English for the Eastern region. Over the past year he has been working with Tom Cheek, the WBL eLearning & Quality Manager at Easton and Otley College, to explore ways in which he and his team can improve the delivery of […]

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2000th participant on Foundation’s Maths enhancement programme discusses the course

Rachel Malic, the Foundation’s Communications and PR Officer, speaks to Anoop Mankoo, a Maths teacher at Birmingham Metropolitan College, and the 2000th person to enrol on the Foundation’s GCSE Maths enhancement programme. Tell us about your job! I am a lecturer at Birmingham Metropolitan College, based at the Matthew Boulton Campus in the city centre. […]

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