collaboration, and attended dissemination events to trial interim findings and refine our recommendations. We wish you all every success with your programmes. (See full list of respondents in Appendix 1) 2. Preface The SWitch Centre for Excellence in Teacher Training (CETT) was appointed and funded by the Learning & Skills Improvement Service (formerly the Quality Improvement Agency). Its brief is to work with Learning & Skills (L&S) providers in the South West Region to improve and enhance both the quality of teacher training provision and the continuous professional development of L&S teachers. The SWitch partnership, co-ordinated by the Taunton-based Learning South West, consists of over 50 regional member organisations from across the L&S sector. These include higher education institutions, further education colleges, work based learning providers, voluntary and community organisations, network and support organisations, adult and community learning and awarding bodies. The broad and growing SWitch membership collectively represents the breadth and variety of the sector itself. A core element of the SWitch vision is the commitment of all members to collaboration and diversity, and to this end the CETT partners work together to identify excellence in teacher training and to spread it within the region and beyond. In order to advance innovation and collaboration, SWitch commissions project work which meets its agreed priorities, empowering groups of constituent organisations to develop projects and disseminate learning. By working in collaboration through the SWitch management structure, the membership of SWitch identify and agree each year, priorities taking forward their overall aims. For relevant identified priorities, a project brief is issued inviting tenders from SWitch members, working in partnership, to undertake project activity to address the relevant area of work. Each project activity team is led by a SWitch member organisation, but wherever possible has cross-sector representation. This report is on one such combined project seeking to advance the aims. partnership’s
collaboration, and attended dissemination events to trial interim findings and refine our recommendations. We wish you all every success with your programmes. (See full list of respondents in Appendix 1) 2. Preface The SWitch Centre for Excellence in Teacher Training (CETT) was appointed and funded by the Learning & Skills Improvement Service (formerly the Quality Improvement Agency). Its brief is to work with Learning & Skills (L&S) providers in the South West Region to improve and enhance both the quality of teacher training provision and the continuous professional development of L&S teachers. The SWitch partnership, co-ordinated by the Taunton-based Learning South West, consists of over 50 regional member organisations from across the L&S sector. These include higher education institutions, further education colleges, work based learning providers, voluntary and community organisations, network and support organisations, adult and community learning and awarding bodies. The broad and growing SWitch membership collectively represents the breadth and variety of the sector itself. A core element of the SWitch vision is the commitment of all members to collaboration and diversity, and to this end the CETT partners work together to identify excellence in teacher training and to spread it within the region and beyond. In order to advance innovation and collaboration, SWitch commissions project work which meets its agreed priorities, empowering groups of constituent organisations to develop projects and disseminate learning. By working in collaboration through the SWitch management structure, the membership of SWitch identify and agree each year, priorities taking forward their overall aims. For relevant identified priorities, a project brief is issued inviting tenders from SWitch members, working in partnership, to undertake project activity to address the relevant area of work. Each project activity team is led by a SWitch member organisation, but wherever possible has cross-sector representation. This report is on one such combined project seeking to advance the partnership’s aims.
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