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New £9.5 million FE Professional Development Grants available
The government has launched a new £9.5 million FE Professional Development Grant pilot to strengthen the professional development on offer to the workforce.
The funding will provide training and support to staff to strengthen skills and confidence to use technology effectively to deliver education.
It will fund subject specific professional development to improve the quality of curriculum design and teaching, learning and assessment, as well as offer tailored support for new or inexperienced teachers in the sector to help career progression and keep talent in the profession.
Apprenticeships and Skills Minister Gillian Keegan said: "We are transforming further and technical education so everyone has the opportunity to gain the skills they need to succeed, but that can only be achieved if we have outstanding teachers with the knowledge and skills to inspire future talent.
"I’ve seen first-hand the brilliant work that is already going on up and down the country, with the FE workforce going above and beyond during the pandemic to support their learners.
"This investment will help build on that by making sure the sector can develop and grow and unlock even more potential."
Eligible further education providers are being invited to partner up and submit bids for funding to develop approaches to professional development and training that improve teaching practices and enable career progression.
The fund forms part of £65 million investment in 2021-22 designed to support a number of measures announced in the Skills for Jobs White Paper that will help boost FE teacher recruitment, retention and development. This includes the launch of a new digital platform and national recruitment campaign to get more talented individuals to teach in further education, strengthened initial teacher training and a new Workforce Industry Exchange Programme so that industry experts can bring their skills to FE teaching.
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