Books in the Essential FE Toolkit series

Money, targets and budgets overshadow life and work in colleges. The systems for funding colleges are complicated and few people understand how they work. Too few know how and where colleges spend their money. This book aims to demystify college finance and provides insights for governors, managers, lecturers and for those who work in the sector.

Dealing with the A to Z of management in FE, this book includes over fifty entries, from key terms in management theory to exemplary figures in FE and various trends. The entries range from benchmarking and funding, right through to mergers, paperwork and quality.

Part of "The Essential FE Toolkit" series on further education (FE) for teachers and college leaders. This guide examines how managers in FE can meet the challenges of promoting equality and diversity in their colleges. It also discusses how to ensure the equality scheme remains effective throughout the college.

A guide on teaching and learning, working with learners, and managing the learning process. Divided into three key areas, it presents key issues such as gaining learner interest, using role play, working with the individual learner, managing disruptive behaviour, juggling a busy workload, lesson preparation and team-teaching.

Further education colleges have been asked to play an important role as providers of higher education programmes. This book addresses issues of organisation, planning and funding as well as staffing, teaching and quality assurance. It is a guide to institutional strategy and good practice in the provision of higher education in further education.

Provides readers with an understanding of stress, in the context of FE teaching, and its effects on personal and professional well-being. This work suggests a range of strategies for managing stressors that affect FE practitioners, from career planning to dealing with difficult people.

Serves as a guide to leading and managing a FE College for College Leaders and Senior Managers. This title covers various aspects of running a College, from shaping the organisation and communicating a vision to planning and marketing the programme right through to dealing with people and improving quality.

A survival guide to Vocational Education and Training (VET) in the UK. It provides answers to key questions such as: Why is VET such an important area? How can European models be used to develop VET in the UK? How is VET structured and provided? And, what are the main issues facing VET?

Part of "The Essential FE Toolkit" series on further education (FE) for teachers and college leaders. This guide introduces senior and middle managers in FE to practical strategies to encourage successful, good quality leadership and management in further education institutions.

Provides an introduction to surviving and succeeding in the ICT and eLearning maze for frazzled FE teachers. This work presents readers with hints and strategies for dealing with a range of issues, including honing your networking skills, developing an awareness of your strengths and weaknesses and exploiting opportunities and avoiding threats.

Suitable reading for further education (FE) lecturers, this guide offers a general introduction to unravelling the maze of assessment in FE. It provides readers with hints and strategies for answering the key questions, including why, what, how and where to assess.

Provides readers with helpful hints and practical strategies for teaching a variety of students, including: refugees; those with Special Educational Needs (in particular, dyslexia and ASD); those for whom English is a second language; young learners (14-16); and those with behavioural difficulties.

Provides an introduction to surviving and succeeding in the ICT and eLearning maze for frazzled FE teachers. This work presents readers with hints and strategies for dealing with a range of issues, including the main software packages, 'learning' gadgets and distance learning.

Provides an overview of three key policy initiatives in FE - Success for All, Skills for Life and the qualifications framework. This book discusses the implications for implementing policy within particular institutions, and how change and working with staff can be managed to best achieve the intended aims of each policy.

Provides lecturers with a range of practical strategies to promote effective learning in the FE classroom. This guide introduces the learning theories that underlie these strategies, and considers how they can best be applied practically in the classroom and what place they have within a standardized National Curriculum.

A guide for middle managers in FE. It provides readers with workable strategies for dealing with the key issues associated with this role, such as managing people, liaising with other staff and being an effective leader. It is suitable for all middle managers in FE.

Provides strategies to create a stimulating and effective learning environment in college, workplace and community venues. This book covers a range of issues including catering for different learning styles, managing learner's expectations, promoting diversity and social inclusion, learning in the workplace, dealing with punctuality, and more.