Linking London HE in FE Practitioner Group Meeting
The first HE in FE Practitioner Group Meeting of the academic year chaired by Andrew Gower, Principal & Chief Executive, was held on the 10th October 2024.
After a warm welcome and opening remarks from Andrew Gower, the meeting began firstly hearing from Rod Bristow, CEO and Founder who presented to the group all about College Online which is a network of colleges and universities working in partnership in providing online study. This was followed by a group discussion, including partners experiences of developing and delivering online provision, where Linking London shared their initial findings on what the picture looked like of online/blended HE Provision of partner FE Colleges.
After a comfort break, we then heard from Rebecca Mameli, Head of Research and Qualification Development, Pearson, who presented to the group with an update on Higher Technical Qualifications and the latest policy headlines including HTQ approvals and approvals in the pipeline.
A partner round table update then followed where partners could share any updates on HE in FE provision and related issues.
Lastly, Andrew Jones, Director at Linking London shared some of the new resources Linking London have recently produced and also existing resources which can all be found on our Partner Area. Andrew flagged that Linking London and Uni Connect are running an Access to HE Fortnight during 14th - 25th October.
The date of the next HE in FE meeting will be in will be in the Spring term, 6th February, 2-4pm which will take place in-person at Morley College London.
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