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Suitable reading for further education (FE) lecturers, this guide offers a general introduction to unravelling the maze of assessment in FE. It provides readers with hints and strategies for answering the key questions, including why, what, how and where to assess.

Money, targets and budgets overshadow life and work in colleges. The systems for funding colleges are complicated and few people understand how they work. Too few know how and where colleges spend their money. This book aims to demystify college finance and provides insights for governors, managers, lecturers and for those who work in the sector.

Part of "The Essential FE Toolkit" series on further education (FE) for teachers and college leaders. This guide introduces senior and middle managers in FE to practical strategies to encourage successful, good quality leadership and management in further education institutions.

A survival guide to Vocational Education and Training (VET) in the UK. It provides answers to key questions such as: Why is VET such an important area? How can European models be used to develop VET in the UK? How is VET structured and provided? And, what are the main issues facing VET?

A survival guide to beating bad behaviour and motivating students in FE. It provides readers with helpful hints and strategies for preventing lower level disruption to coping when things get really tough.

Provides readers with helpful hints and practical strategies for teaching a variety of students, including: refugees; those with Special Educational Needs (in particular, dyslexia and ASD); those for whom English is a second language; young learners (14-16); and those with behavioural difficulties.

Difficult and unruly students are not exclusive to primary and secondary education, with bad behaviour and motivation being a major concern for many lecturers within the FE sector. This book aims to tackle disruptive behaviour at the outset with advice for coping with minor classroom misdemeanours through to full scale crises.

Further education colleges have been asked to play an important role as providers of higher education programmes. This book addresses issues of organisation, planning and funding as well as staffing, teaching and quality assurance. It is a guide to institutional strategy and good practice in the provision of higher education in further education.

A guide on teaching and learning, working with learners, and managing the learning process. Divided into three key areas, it presents key issues such as gaining learner interest, using role play, working with the individual learner, managing disruptive behaviour, juggling a busy workload, lesson preparation and team-teaching.

Part of "The Essential FE Toolkit" series on further education (FE) for teachers and college leaders. This guide examines how managers in FE can meet the challenges of promoting equality and diversity in their colleges. It also discusses how to ensure the equality scheme remains effective throughout the college.

Dealing with the A to Z of management in FE, this book includes over fifty entries, from key terms in management theory to exemplary figures in FE and various trends. The entries range from benchmarking and funding, right through to mergers, paperwork and quality.

A guide for lecturers on how to teach students aged 14 to 19 effectively. This book provides readers with: a summary of the range of academic and vocational qualifications available to 14 to 19 year olds; an overview of the national agenda for 14-19 education and training; and, insights into 14-19 year olds' views about teaching and learning.