For further details of all publications relating to the Framework for Excellence, please refer to the following list:
Date published: 03/10/2008
This guidance is produced by the LSC and the LSIS to build on earlier publications, in particular Quality improvement and self-assessment (LSC, May 2005). It aims to locate self-assessment within the context of changing policy and practice, including planned changes to government arrangements affecting FE, the introduction of the Framework for Excellence (FfE), and developments in inspection. The guidance recognises progress in the journey to self-regulation for the FE system, including the creation of the Single Voice, which will be producing its own publication on performance management in due course.
Date published: 01/10/2008
The LSC commissioned an independent investigation into the impact of external contextual factors upon a provider’s Framework scores and gradings as part of the evidence base for the Single Equality Impact Assessment (SEIA). The aim of the research was to test the case for contextualisation, a term that refers to adjustments made to correct for the impact of the operating context of a provider or a class of providers. The key findings from the report are reproduced in the document, Testing the Case for Contextualisation in the Framework. The significance of this work, from an equality and diversity viewpoint, is that evidence of a strong influence on Framework grades by external factors would (unless corrected) disadvantage some providers and, by extension, their learners.
Date published: 30/09/2008
This Single Equality Impact Assessment (SEIA) is an independent assessment of the Framework for Excellence (the Framework), conducted independently in accordance with the LSC’s Single Equality Scheme.
Date published: 23/09/2008
Guide for providers, relating to the implementation of the Framework for Excellence.
Date published: 29/08/2008
PowerPoint Presentation of Provider Briefing Event
Date published: 14/07/2008
Memorandum of Collaboration between HEFCE and the LSC
Date published: 03/07/2008
Framework for Excellence: Putting the Framework into Practice - policy document
Date published: 05/06/2008
Evaluation of Framework for Excellence Pilot Programme
Date published: 30/05/2008
Bureaucracy Reduction Group FFE Report
Date published: 11/04/2008
Recognising and Recording Progress and Achievement (RARPA) describes an approach to the quality assurance of provision in the learning and skills sector that focuses on individual learner achievement. The RARPA approach gives providers a framework for supporting the progress and achievement of learners, through consistent and effective methods of recognising and recording.
