{"id":2883,"date":"2012-12-10T12:31:28","date_gmt":"2012-12-10T12:31:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=2883"},"modified":"2012-12-10T12:31:28","modified_gmt":"2012-12-10T12:31:28","slug":"lsiss-lingering-death-finally-confirmed-long-live-the-fe-guild","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2012\/12\/10\/lsiss-lingering-death-finally-confirmed-long-live-the-fe-guild\/","title":{"rendered":"LSIS's lingering death finally confirmed; Long live the FE Guild"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DBIS has announced that its funding the the Learning and Skills Improvement service will come to an end in August 2013. \u00a0This is the last of a series of cuts in recent years. \u00a0LSIS has confirmed that it will cease delivering courses, training conferences and other support, including the provision of grants direct to providers, on a phased basis between March and August 2013. \u00a0LSIS posted <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lsis.org.uk\/AboutLSIS\/MediaCentre\/NewsArticles\/Pages\/LSISfundingtocease.aspx\">this<\/a> today.<\/p>\n<p>What the post doesn't say is what <a href=\"http:\/\/feweek.co.uk\/2012\/11\/14\/future-of-lsis-in-doubt-as-fe-guild-role-emerges\">FE Week<\/a> reported last month, that BIS was going to fund a new body, the FE Guild. \u00a0The report said:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Last month, FE Minister Matthew Hancock announced that the Association of Colleges (AoC) and the Association of Employment and Learning Providers (AELP) had won government approval to \u201ctake forward\u201d proposals for the guild \u2013 a single body to set professional standards and codes of behaviour, as well as develop qualifications. ... \u00a0A spokesperson for AELP and AoC said: \u201cWe have been charged with working with partners to establish an FE Guild. \u00a0That process will begin with a comprehensive consultation of the sector to define the role of the guild. \u00a0The results of that consultation will inform implications for other sector bodies.\u201d \u00a0... \u00a0It would then be up to the sector to decide on the \u201cbest\u201d employer-led contribution the guild could make to the \u201ccontinued improvement of teaching, learning and governance\u201d. \u00a0David Hughes, chief executive of the <em>National Institute of Adult Continuing Education<\/em>, was this month appointed as chair of a steering group for the new guild.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Umm. \u00a0Looks like a coup to me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DBIS has announced that its funding the the Learning and Skills Improvement service will come to an end in August 2013. \u00a0This is the last of a series of cuts in recent years. \u00a0LSIS has confirmed that it will cease...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":237,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comment","category-news-and-updates"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/237"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2883\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}