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Phil Romain
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GL4 3SN
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Staff development5
“strong employer links during both on- and off-the-job training” p.1
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- 2
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- 319
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- Fairly hard
- Flesch 55, typical 45
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- 15 words
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Aviation House 125 Kingsway London WC2B 6SE T 08456 404040 F 020 7421 6855 enquiries@ofsted.gov.uk www.ofsted.gov.uk
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Mr D McPherson Gloucestershire Training Group Limited 8 Chancel Close Eastern Avenue Gloucester GL4 3SN
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employers in work-related education and training
Thank you for your hospitality and cooperation during my visit on 8 October 2009. I am particularly grateful to you and all your staff for the hard work involved in preparing for the visit and for giving up a great deal of time during the visit to meet me. Please pass on my thanks to all those concerned.
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employers in work-related education and training
The visit provided much useful evidence, which will contribute to our national survey of good practice in the role that employers play in work-related education and training.
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employers in work-related education and training
The evidence used to help form the judgements made on this one-day visit included interviews with staff, employers and learners and scrutiny of the examples of good practice provided. A range of documents, case studies and data were reviewed.
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employers in work-related education and training
I agreed to provide a summary of the good practice seen and to identify some areas for development. I outline the main findings below.
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The main strengths are:
very high timely success rate in 2007/08
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The main strengths are:
strong employer links during both on- and off-the-job training
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The main strengths are:
good involvement of employers in developing individual programmes for learners’ training and assessment
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The main strengths are:
the strong work ethic developed among learners during off-the-job training the very effective use of mentors to support learners in some companies
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The main strengths are:
the ability to respond rapidly to the needs of employers.
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The main areas for further development are:
to extend the use of mentors to more companies.
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The main areas for further development are:
I hope these observations are useful as you continue to develop provision. If there are any points you wish to discuss, please contact me. As we will be evaluating the survey, you may be contacted in the future to find out your views. I hope you will contribute to this evaluation.
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The main areas for further development are:
As I explained in my previous letter, a copy of this letter will be published on the Ofsted website.
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