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Further Education project posts final report

The Jisc Digital Student project has investigated the expectations and experiences of technology provision held by students coming into higher education, and also funded a small review of current practice within secondary schools. The further education and skills project ran between 1 June 2014 and 30 April 2015 in order to extend the findings of […]

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Emerging recommendations from FE study

The FE study is undertaking a series of consultation events to share the findings from the desk study and focus groups, and create a set of recommendations. Recommendations for managers and leaders We started with recommendations for colleges and are now focussing on recommendations for college managers. There are three strands of activity for college managers […]

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Conducting learner experience focus groups

In the Learner experience collection phase of the FE Digital Student study we conducted 12 focus groups at 6 colleges in England, Scotland and Wales We met a total of 220 learners on L1 – L3 programmes across: Child Care Health and Social Care Creative Media Animal Management IT Sociology And in each subject, we […]

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FE Digital Student focus groups just finished

We’re happy to report that on Thursday, 11 December, we finished the last of the FE Digital Student learner focus groups. We’re really grateful to the six Colleges who provided for their support in organising these events with us: Borders College, Sussex Downs College, Activate Learning, Myerscough College, City of Bristol College, Coleg Gwent 220 […]

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FE Digital Student Project Kicks Off

Data collection for the FE Digital Student project kicked off in September. The desk study looking at published material relevant to understanding FE students’ expectations of their digital learning environment is now well underway. The team are looking at both openly available research and policy documents and internal documents that institutions have made available to […]

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FE & Skills study staff consultation events announced

We’re pleased to be able to announce dates and locations for FE staff consultation events for the Digital Student FE & Skills study. Please add the relevant date(s) to your diary. Jisc will open bookings for these events later in the year. 15 Jan 2015 Birmingham 20 Jan 2015 Manchester 25 Feb 2015 Bristol 04 […]

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Expressions of interest in FE & Skills study now closed

Thank you to the many FE Colleges who registered expressions of interest in participating in the FE & Skills study. We had a terrific response and have closed the EOI form now. It’s great to see so much interest in contributing to developing policies and processes in the FE & Skills sector for supporting students […]

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FE & Skills Study looking for more expressions of interest from Wales

Dear colleagues We have had a pleasing number of expressions of interest from FE Colleges in participating in the FE Digital Student study. We will soon announce participating institutions. In the meantime there is still time to register your interest in joining the study. We would especially appreciate hearing from more Welsh institutions. Register your […]

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Launch of FE and Skills study

You will notice that there is now a new section to the web site, referencing the FE and Skills Study to parallel the HE study already undertaken into students’ digital experiences and expectations. This is our first post, starting the project. Check back often, as we’ll be posting news of progress here pretty regularly. The […]