Network for Innovation

Opportunities for colleagues to attend conferences, and online CPD addressing topical issues, and regional roadshows, with a focus on people and place. 

The Digital and Advanced Manufacturing Communities of Practice are Think-tank meetings that bring together further and higher technical educators, with employers, businesses, awarding organisations, and key stakeholders, to include international partners. A space is created where colleagues can hear from technical experts, and where professional discussion can take place to share effective practice, challenges and solutions, and to horizon scan to support teaching excellence. 

Practitioner and Organisation projects– Innovation projects provide the opportunity for further and higher education providers, and colleagues, to experiment and trial new approaches to teaching, learning and assessment, and to share their learning and effective practice widely, to raise standards and improve outcomes for learners. 

WorldSkills UK exchange visits provide opportunities for knowledge and exchange and transfer, and the sharing of effective practice in further and higher technical and vocational education and training, between countries, as part of the WorldSkills global community of practice. 

Our Industry Exchange opportunities provide further and higher technical educators, and their employer partners, the opportunity to apply take part in funded exchange visits, enabling knowledge transfer, and the time and space to work on co-curriculum design, planning and delivery, to meet local skills needs. A clear line of sight to work, and genuine opportunities for two-way street working with employers are supported, to develop innovation in teaching practices, for the benefit of learners.