Colleges of Further and Higher Education

Curriculum Resources, Information & Practice

Ask a librarian - accessible at all hours of the day and night and they'll deliver a response to your enquiry direct to your desktop.
AskERIC a personalised Internet-based service providing education information to teachers, librarians, counsellors, administrators, parents, and others throughout the United States and the world.
AskERIC Lesson Plans
BBC Learning - explore, participate, learn.
BIDS - search over 14,000,000 articles from over 27,000 publications
BUBL education provides value-added access to educational Internet resources
Cheshire and Warrington Basic Skills Network - The aim of this site is to support basic skills tutors in Cheshire and Warrington, whether working in FE colleges, private training and voluntary organisations, or adult & community education
EdSurf - The online distance learning resource for adult students
Education Index An annotated guide to education-related sites sorted by subject and lifestage
Education-line - Education-line is a freely accessible database of the full text of conference papers, working papers and electronic literature which supports educational research, policy and practice.
EduWeb - RM's reference and resource library bringing together thousands of reference articles, pictures and multimedia clips.
Further Education Resources for Learning - FERL is a web-based information service for lecturers and other practitioners that aims to promote and support the effective use of ILT in FE. Ferl is funded by the Learning and Skills Council and managed by Becta.
Learning On-Line: Electronic Learning Resources in Further Education - Examples from FERL of how electronic learning resources have been successfully deployed to satisfy the demand for student-centred, resource-based learning, and to cater for the needs of a disabled student population
Lifelong Learning ILT Projects - a database of ILT projects in the UK and case studies in lifelong learning
LSDA - ILT Materials - Provided by the LSDA to support creating learning materials using web pages, Word and PowerPoint. Guides to file management, the Internet, searching the web, email + plenty of other useful tips and guidance.
Learning and Skills Hub - The Learning and Skills Hub (hosted by Becta and NGfL) has collected together and categorised a host of web site links, specifically for the use of busy educational people. The site groups links under headings such as ‘funding’, ‘teaching and learning’ and ‘staff development’. And as well as drop down menus under each heading, a Site Map gives the whole list of topic areas covered.
MIT Open Courseware - all of the course materials from every Massachusetts Institute of Technology [MIT]
undergraduate and graduate course. Syllabi, course calendars, lecture notes, assignments and exams
National Grid for Learning a collection of resources brought together by the UK Government to help raise standards in education and to support lifelong learning
NISS Gateway to information on education
Puzzlemaker from DiscoverySchool gives you the tools to make many different puzzles online - create your own hidden word search
RDN Virtual Training Suite - a set of online tutorials designed to help students, lecturers and researchers improve their Internet information skills. The tutorials...include quizzes and interactive exercises to lighten the learning experience
World-Wide Web Virtual Library: Education
World-wide Web Virtual Library: Educational Technology

AoC: Association of Colleges created in 1996 as the single voice to promote the interests of the 485 colleges in England and Wales
BBC Learning - Further Education
Beacon Awards The Beacon Awards Programme, launched in 1994, recognises and is designed to promote the interdependence of further education colleges and business, professional and voluntary sector organisations to their mutual advantage
BUBL UK - Further Education Colleges
C0LRiC - Council for Learning Resources in Colleges
Further Education for the New Millennium The Government's Response to "Learning Works" - The report of the Further Education Funding Council's committee on widening participation in Further Education, chaired by Baroness Kennedy of the Shaws
Further Education National Consortium - FENC membership allows you to use, create and customise lesson plans, learning resources, integrated learning solutions and FENC learning solutions within your VLE
Further Education Resources for Learning - FERL is a web-based information service for lecturers and other practitioners that aims to promote and support the effective use of ILT in FE. Ferl is funded by the Learning and Skills Council and managed by Becta.
Learning and Skills Council - The Learning and Skills Council is responsible for all post-16 education and training.
Learning and Skills Development Agency - The Learning and Skills Development Agency is a strategic national resource for the development of policy and practice in post-16 education and training. The Agency was previously known as the Further Education Development Agency (FEDA).
Learning and Skills Hub - The Learning and Skills Hub (hosted by Becta and NGfL) has collected together and categorised a host of web site links, specifically for the use of busy educational people. The site groups links under headings such as ‘funding’, ‘teaching and learning’ and ‘staff development’. And as well as drop down menus under each heading, a Site Map gives the whole list of topic areas covered.
Learning On-line: Electronic Learning Resources in Further Education - Examples from FERL of how electronic learning resources have been successfully deployed to satisfy the demand for student-centred, resource-based learning, and to cater for the needs of a disabled student population
NILTA The National Information and Learning Technologies Association. NILTA provides a focal point for the development and promotion of information and learning technologies in colleges in the Further Education sector in the United Kingdom
SOSIG - UK - Further Education - an online database of high quality Internet resources. It offers users the chance to read descriptions of resources available over the Internet and to access those resources directly.
Success for All: the Learning and Skills Council web site - 'Success for All' documents including the DfES strategy for reforming further education and training.
TES FE Focus - the education newspaper online
UK Sensitive Maps - FE and other colleges
Yahoo! Colleges of Further and Higher Education - alist of UK colleges

UK online - government information service
DfES Department for Education and Skills - formerly: DfEE Department for Education and Employment
Further Education for the New Millennium The Government's Response to "Learning Works" - The report of the Further Education Funding Council's committee on widening participation in Further Education, chaired by Baroness Kennedy of the Shaws
ICT Learning Centres Web Site The Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) Learning Centres initiative is a programme designed to help bridge the gap between those in society who have access to ICT and those who do not
Learning to succeed: briefing on the new White Paper on post-16 education and training
The full text is available at http://www.dfee.gov.uk/post16/pu_white_index.shtml

Mailing and Discussion lists

Qualifications

Fielden Report: A Report on Human Resource Management in Academic Libraries, for the Joint Funding Councils' Libraries Review Group: HEFCE, 1994
Further Education for the New Millennium The Government's Response to "Learning Works" - The report of the Further Education Funding Council's committee on widening participation in Further Education, chaired by Baroness Kennedy of the Shaws: DfEE, 1998
Higher Education in the Learning Society: "The Dearing Report", 1997"
Learning Works: widening participation Further Education: Helena Kennedy, FEFC June 1997
New Opportunities Fund consultation paper; Community Access to Lifelong Learning: The Library and Information Commission's Response, 1999
Success for All: Reforming Education and Training: Department for Education and Skils, 2002

EdSurf - The online distance learning resource for adult students
learndirect online- online learning opportunities - study at home or at one of a nationwide network of learning centres - choose from over 500,000 courses.
New Opportunities Fund consultation paper; Community Access to Lifelong Learning: The Library and Information Commission's Response, 1999
University for Industry - Ufi is taking forward the Government's vision of a 'University for Industry'. Working as a public-private partnership in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, Ufi aims to put individuals in a better position to get jobs, improve their career prospects and boost business competitiveness. Ufi's learning services are being delivered through learndirect.
UK Lifelong Learning - a web site for the encouragement, promotion and development of lifelong learning. Lifelong Learning is supported by the Access to Learning for Adults Division of the Department for Education and Skills.