Edge has combined forces with leading further education providers to draw up a blueprint for effective, inspiring vocational learning.

With the direct support of FE colleges, including highly regarded Lewisham College, the Perfecting Practice project aims to outline the key problems facing vocational learning and look carefully at ways to solve them.

It's an important task. Edge believes that our national future depends on effective practical learning, because highly skilled, well educated young people are the foundation of economic success. Perfecting Practice looks at the best of practical, vocational education, learning from the triumphs as well as the mistakes of the past. It explores the skills and qualities that teachers need to deliver effective practical learning. And it designs innovative ways of training new teachers to build on past successes.

Perfecting Practice is creating new models of good learning, helping to close the UK's skills gap and improve young people's sense of direction and fulfilment. And, simply by taking vocational learning seriously, the project is helping to show the world that practical learning is something valuable and important.

To find out more about the project, click here to download our project information documents.

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