External links

Below are a list of related projects, activities and organisations that you can visit for further information on scholarship in college HE.

1 - Key stakeholders and related projects and activities:

The Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE)

• HEFCE
• The HEFCE blog
• Higher Education Access Tracker (HEAT)
• Learning gain project
• Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF) developments

The Higher Education Academy (HEA)

• HEA
• The Continuum Model of Scholarship
• College Based Higher Education
• Higher Education Achievement Record (HEAR)
• UK Engagement Survey (UKES)
• USA - National Survery of Student Engagement (NSSE)

The Quality Assurance Agency (QAA)

• QAA
• Guidence for Colleges
• Research pages
• Spotlight pages
• Analysis pages

The National Union of Students (NUS)

• NUS
• Student Engagement work
• College HE toolkit

2 - UK associations with an interest in College HE:

• Staff and Educational Development Association (SEDA)
  • SEDA
  • Publications
• The Mixed Economy Group (MEG)
  • MEG
  • Research Documents
• Association for Research in Post-Compulsory Education (ARPCE)
  • ARPCE
  • Events
• The Education and Training Foundation (ETF)
  • ETF
  • Higher Education delivered by FE colleges
• Learning and Skills Research Network (LSRN)
• Society for Research in Higher Education (SRHE) Post-Compulsory and Higher Education Network
• Teacher Education in Lifelong Learning (TELL)

3 - Related research projects and scholarly outputs:

• Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) - Higher Vocational Education and Pedagogy (HIVE-PED)
• European Union (EU) - Erasmus+ project - Boosting European Exchange on Higher VET and Employer Involvement in Education Structures (BEEHiVES)
• Dept. for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) Research Report 68 - Parry, G., Callender, C., Scott, P. and Temple, P. (2012) Understanding Higher Education in Further Education Colleges. London: BIS.                  

4 - Key Journals and other scholarly sources:

• Research in Post-Compulsory Education (RPCE)
• Journal of Further and Higher Education (JFHE)
• Studies in Higher Education
• Journal of Vocational Education and Training (JVET)
• Journal of Education and Work
• Times Higher Education (THE)
• WonkHE

5 - Key Policy Documents:

• Post-16 skills plan and independent report on technical education (2016) – Command paper (Cm 9280) - based on the work of Lord Sainsbury’s independent panel
• Higher education: success as a knowledge economy (2016) - white paper – based on the proposed Teaching Excellence Framework consultation, and review of the reform of higher education
• Higher education: students at the heart of the system (2011) – white paper – based on the Lord Browne review of the future funding of higher education