The document is the summary report of the independent Commission on Adult Vocational Teaching and Learning. The creation of the commission was announced in 'New challenges, new chances', the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills' reform plan for the further education and skills sector, published in December 2011 [available in VOCEDplus at TD/TNC 107.410]. The aim of the commission is to raise the quality, and improve the outcomes and impact, of adult vocational teaching and learning in the further education and skills sector for learners and employers. This will involve: articulating the features of a good or outstanding program of vocational learning for an adult, wherever it is delivered including the workplace; an appraisal of the range of pedagogical approaches to adult vocational teaching and training, reflecting the diversity of adult learners' and employers' needs; investigating the role of technology in supporting good or outstanding adult vocational teaching and learning; creating a new national 'movement' to raise the quality of adult vocational teaching and learning by bringing together a wide range of stakeholders from industry, teaching training colleges, professional associations and practitioners in the further education and skills sector; exploring how the best colleges and providers work with employers; raising the status of adult vocational teaching and learning beyond the further education and skills sector; developing a sector owned framework to raise the quality of teaching and learning; reporting on findings, conclusions and recommendations in March 2013; and disseminating the Commission's recommendations widely.
After a brief introduction, this summary report explores the Commission's conclusions on: the principles, characteristics and distinctive features of excellent adult vocational teaching and learning, and the implications for the education and training of vocational teachers and trainers; and the enabling factors necessary for excellent adult vocational teaching and learning to flourish. The final section of the report outlines the Commission's recommendations, setting out what needs to be done next, and who should take the lead. These recommendations are intended to build on the excellent examples of practice the Commission has seen, in order to create a consistently strong system of vocational teaching and learning across the country.
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