Discussion feedback
New National Improvement Strategy principles

LSIS has consulted with the sector at various sector and dedicated events and meetings, online and paper questionnaires.

Overview of responses:

	Download full ORC consultation findings and summary here
	Download the consultation response summary here

To find the thoughts and dicussion summaries from each event please click on the event title below:

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