Awards notice

Consultancy Research and Development Framework

Following a competitive tender process early in this financial year, LSIS has accepted a number of suppliers to form the Consultancy Research and Development Framework. The framework agreement runs from April 2009 to March 2010 with options to extend for up to a further 24 months.

• A full list of the successful suppliers can be found here 

Latest news

• Matching apprentices with employers

  19 February 2010

  A college in Oxford is helping to reduce unemployment in the county thanks to an innovative approach to finding jobs for students and the long-term unemployed.

• Learning Star Sarah takes the web behind bars

  19 February 2010

  A manager who brought e-learning and internet access to inmates at HMP Isle of Wight has had her efforts recognized with a prestigious national award. Sarah Snowdon, head of The Isle of Wight College’s access to learning department won the 2009 Learning and Skills Improvement Service (LSIS) STAR Award for innovation at a glittering national ceremony at Old Billingsgate, London.

• Clean bill of health for LSIS rating system

  12 February 2010

  The council’s performance review panel looked into LSIS’s performance from July to September 2009 and here is a summary of the findings.

• Equalities and CIF, are you ready?

  5 February 2010

  LSIS is offering learning and skills providers the chance to acquaint themselves with the equalities aspect of Oftsed’s new common inspection framework through a new one-day course.

• Equality and diversity partnership projects

  1 February 2010

  LSIS launched its equality and diversity partnership programme at Friars House on Friday and heard from 17 projects nationwide which are being supported by LSIS to kick-off the scheme. Here is a brief taster of the first group of projects