What's new in this edition:

Meeting your needs - feedback and support

Diploma development has always meant being able to respond to demand and feedback. Now that Diploma programmes are underway feedback has become ‘real-time’ and founded in the actual experience of teaching and learning the Diploma.

Update from diploma-support.org

The programme website at diploma-support.org now has over 8,000 registered users. With over 4,000 visits per week and a continual stream of posts on the various forums, the site is beginning to be established as a vibrant community and a ‘destination of choice’ for Diploma practitioners.

Free training packages designed to meet your needs

The Diploma support programme offers a menu of topics from which 'packages' of training can be tailored to practitioners' needs and preferred styles of learning.

FE colleges and employers need to work better together

The CBI and LSIS in a new report call for better and closer links between employers and FE colleges to help firms plug future skills gaps, drive up productivity and improve the prospects of British businesses in the face of the global downturn.

Functional Skills in Diplomas

Functional Skills in Diplomas is a new and exciting series of publications
developed by the Learning and Skills Improvement Service (LSIS) to cover
the first 10 lines of learning.