5 Education and Skills opportunities

The Teaching Council and the Department of Education wish to jointly commission a significant longitudinal research study to investigate beginning teachers’ professional journeys, and the key personal, educational, professional and systemic influences that define and shape their early careers and practice including the impact of different learning and early professional development phases.

The objective of this tender exercise/procurement is to undertake a research study into the supervision and assessment of practice learning, including but not limited to the role of the practice educator in qualifying and post-qualifying social work education in England. From this piece of research, we want to understand:   * the experiences, including attitudes, perceptions and barriers, of social workers who undertake the supervision and assessment of practice learning; *what motivates social workers to qualify as practice educators or to continue as practice educators, and what are the barriers to recruiting and retaining social workers to undertake this role; *perceptions of existing standards and training requirements in relation to practice education and the role of the practice educator in England across pre-registration and post-qualifying education; *what lessons can we learn from existing models of supervision and assessment of practice learning from...

The British Council is looking for a partner to work with us over 12 months with a possible 12-month extension to deliver monitoring and data capture services for two large-scale Higher education global programmes called ‘International Student Mobility and Marketing’ (ISMM) and ‘Insight and Engagement’ (I&E), and more specifically the Education Insight hubs that form a critical part of that programme. The purpose of the ISMM programme is to promote UK education to prospective international students and those that influence them (education advisers, agents and counsellors) by learning and development tools and offering accurate, comprehensive, and current information about opportunities to study in the UK.

The British Council is looking for an evaluation of the Education Insight hub, which covers the East Asia region. The Education Insight hubs provide analysis and insights which support the UK Higher Education and TVET sectors to internationalise - We have a network of Hubs located across the British Council regions producing a portfolio of education intelligence to facilitate our key stakeholders’ overseas engagement and support internationalisation strategies. The overarching objective of this Insight work is to cement and expand the British Council’s reputation as a leading source of education intelligence. The East Asia hub was the first to be launched and had been running in its present guise since April 2022. The British Council would like to review how the support provided by the hub is valued by the higher education and TVET sectors in the UK, how the various outputs are used by the sectors to support their engagement with the East Asia region and how this...