Guidance Notes and Best Practice Guides
LLUK: The Scottish Government has released a new web publication designed to promote ways of using the Scottish Credit and Qualifications Framework (SCQF) in Community Learning and Development (CLD), which sets out to help CLD practitioners to understand how the SCQF might be useful in a community learning and development context.
Press release ~ Worth Doing: Using the Scottish Credit and Qualifications Framework in Community Learning and Development ~ Summary version
HEFCE: Professor David Eastwood, Chief Executive of HEFCE, has issued advice to universities & colleges on the implications of the recent parliamentary statement on student support by John Denham, Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills.
DH: Patients looking for information about the choices available for their healthcare will now be able to find it all on one NHS website. From last week, whether you are considering which hospital to choose (NHS Choices), or checking what your symptoms (NHS Direct) might mean, all of the NHS's knowledge & expertise will be available from a single website (NHS Choices).
Now NHS Choices offers the public access to: self-help guides, comparative information on hospitals, guides to long-term conditions, practice profiles to help find GPs and much more.
LLUK: Lifelong Learning UK is working in partnership with the Training and Development Agency for Schools (TDA) to provide professional development support for those involved in delivering the new 14-19 Diploma.
An updated guide to assist with the planning of professional development is now available. 'A Guide to Support the Professional Development of Diploma Teachers' (2008) identifies & explains the specific areas of teaching in which practitioners can enhance their knowledge, skills and understanding for Diploma delivery.
