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14-19 Skills Bulletin

ASDAN ASDAN is established as a registered charity for "The advancement of education, by providing opportunities for learners to develop their personal and social attributes and levels of achievement through ASDAN awards and resources, and the relief of poverty, where poverty inhibits such opportunities for learners."

Association of School and College Leaders The Association of School and College Leaders (ASCL) is the only professional association and trade union in Britain to speak exclusively for secondary school and college leaders.

BBC News - 14-19 learning

Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation The Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation is a charitable foundation established in Portugal in 1956 with cultural, educational, social and scientific interests.

Campaign for Learning The Campaign for Learning is working for a society where learning is at the heart of social inclusion. Research shows that lifelong learners are more likely to be happier, healthier, have better jobs, contribute more to society and live longer and more fulfilled lives.

Cardiff School of Social Sciences

Changemakers Changemakers are young people who lead positive change in their world. The Changemakers Foundation exists to discover, inspire, develop and connect these Changemakers. We also clear their path in the world by changing the culture of organisations and the direction of policy. We’re creating a world in which young people have the confidence to lead and everyone understands we need them to.

Cross-National Equivalence of Vocational Skills and Qualifications (King's College, London) Recent EU decisions to phase in a system of comparing vocational qualifications raise important questions of interpretation, validity and use of the framework comparator. We will: (i) Identify and define those areas that are likely to cause the most difficulty, including differences across countries in the meaning and application of concepts such as 'skill' and 'qualification'; (ii) Develop and apply transnational categories of analysis in terms of the division of labour, both in relation to other qualified labour (horizontal) and status (vertical); (iii) Locate and explain the basis for difficulties of comparability, and describe the problems that the differences identified pose to an integrated European framework, and in particular to the English framework; and (iv) Propose criteria for cross-national evaluation of skills and qualifications.

Culture24

Department for Children, Schools and Families - 14-19 Reform

Directgov Education and Learning

Edge Edge is an independent education foundation, dedicated to raising the stature of practical and vocational learning.

Institute of Education, University of London

Joseph Rowntree Foundation The JRF seeks to understand the root causes of social problems, to identify ways of overcoming them, and to show how social needs can be met in practice.

Learning and Skills Network

Leeds University School of Education

London Region Post-14 Research and Innovation The Centre for Post-14 Research and Innovation was formed in 2007, building on the work of the Post-14 Regional Network. The Centre aims to support 'the creation of an inclusive and high-performing post-14 education and training system in England based on independent research and dialogue between practitioner, policy and researcher communities'.

National Foundation for Educational Research NFER is the UK’s largest independent provider of research, assessment and information services for education, training and children’s services.

Nuffield Foundation The Nuffield Foundation is one of the UK's best known charitable trusts which was established in 1943 by William Morris (Lord Nuffield), the founder of Morris Motors. Lord Nuffield wanted his Foundation to 'advance social well being', particularly through research and practical experiment. The Foundation aims to achieve this by supporting work which will bring about improvements in society, and which is founded on careful reflection and informed by objective and reliable evidence

Policy Hub Policy Hub aims to promote strategic thinking and improve policy making and delivery across government. It endeavours to provide users with access to a range of perspectives on policy matters.

QCDA 14-19 Hub

Rathbone Rathbone is a UK-wide voluntary youth sector organisation providing opportunities for young people to transform their life-circumstances by re-engaging with learning, discovering their ability to succeed and achieving progression to further education, training and employment.

SKOPE The ESRC Centre on Skills, Knowledge and Organisational Performance (SKOPE) is based in Oxford and Cardiff Universities. It is multi-disciplinary, with staff and associates from most branches of the social sciences. Its central aim is to examine the links between the acquisition and use of skills and knowledge, product market strategies and performance (measured in a variety of ways).

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Teachernet (14-19)

UCAS UCAS is the organisation responsible for managing applications to higher education courses in the UK.

University of Oxford Department of Education

University of Oxford

Work Foundation The Work Foundation is the leading independent authority on work and its future. It aims to improve the quality of working life and the effectiveness of organisations by equipping leaders, policymakers and opinion-formers with evidence, advice, new thinking and networks.

Young Foundation The Young Foundation was founded in 2005, formed from the merger of the Institute of Community Studies and the Mutual Aid Centre. The Foundation undertakes research to identify and understand unmet social needs and then develop practical initiatives and institutions to address them - in fields as diverse as health and education, housing and cities.