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Guidance Notes and Best Practice Guides
Socitm: Socitm Head of Information Assurance Mark Brett and Socitm member & Westminster CIO David Wilde joined the panel for the latest webinar from UKauthorITy.com now available to view online. The topic under discussion was ‘how organisations can responds to the need to do more with less by fostering innovation, working outside their traditional boundaries and freeing themselves from silo working’.
CLG: Last week saw the launch of a new handy tips & advice guide designed to help encourage people of all ages & backgrounds to get further involved in local life and bring lasting improvements to their communities.
From kickstarting local projects & organising community festivals, to engaging local businesses, the 'Inspiring Communities, Changing Behaviour' guide offers practical tips. It draws upon real life examples highlighting the experiences and the important & creative contributions made by communities across the country.
From kickstarting local projects & organising community festivals, to engaging local businesses, the 'Inspiring Communities, Changing Behaviour' guide offers practical tips. It draws upon real life examples highlighting the experiences and the important & creative contributions made by communities across the country.
DfE: The Young People’s Learning Agency (YPLA) has begun notifying schools & colleges of the allocations they will receive under the new £180m 16-19 bursary scheme. The scheme will help 16- to 19-year-olds continue in full-time education, where they might otherwise struggle for financial reasons. It is made up of 2 parts:
* a bursary of £1,200 a year to the most vulnerable young people
* a discretionary fund for schools & colleges to distribute.
Alongside the letters, the YPLA has published a guide for schools & colleges setting out arrangements for the scheme. A report on the 8-week consultation, which helped shape the new scheme and the Government’s response to the report, have also been published.
HEFCE: From September 2012, prospective higher education students will have easy access to the new Key Information Set (KIS) to help them choose what & where to study. Under new arrangements published jointly by HEFCE, Universities UK and GuildHE, universities & colleges in England will be required to publish a KIS for each undergraduate course they offer.
The KIS is an online summary of information about: student satisfaction; learning & assessment; financial costs & support; employment outcomes; and professional body recognition. These are the areas that more than 2,000 students and their advisers highlighted as most useful to them in recent research.
