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JISC

The Regional Support Centres are part of the JISC network. Find out more about our links within JISC on the JISC Services page. There are also 12 other Regional Support Centres in the UK.

Regional Partners

We work in partnership in the East Midlands with a number of organisations to help support our learning providers. Here are some of them:

emCETT
emCETT is one of eleven National Centres of Excellence in Teacher Training, managed by the Learning and Skills Improvement Service (LSIS) as part of the National Improvement Strategy for the further education system. Their aim is to increase the capacity to deliver high quality teacher education, including specialist SfL teaching qualifications, across the East Midlands.

emda
East Midlands Development Agency (emda) is one of nine Regional Development Agencies in England, set up in 1999 by Government to bring a regional focus to economic development.

EMFEC
EMFEC is an organisation that helps and facilitates the testing of new ideas, quality improvement and the development of teachers, staff and managers in the learning and skills sectors. It represents the interests and view of colleges both regionally and, increasingly, nationally.

EMMAN
EMMAN owns and runs a high bandwidth Regional Network whose primary purpose is to deliver connectivity to the SuperJANET network and the Internet for the Higher Education Institutions, Further Education Institutions, Specialist Colleges and other institutions across the East Midlands region. The network is managed by EMMAN Ltd under a contract with JANET(UK) who operate SuperJANET.

Skills for Life CPD website
This site aims to support the network of Skills for Life practitioners working in the East Midlands by providing information, resources, regional events and job opportunities.

National Partners

As part of the network of the 13 Regional Support Centres in the UK we work in partnership with national organisations to help support our learning providers. Here are some of them:

Association of Learning Providers
The Association of Learning Providers is recognised as a voice of independent learning providers throughout England. The majority of its 470 members are private, not-for-profit and voluntary sector training organisations who deliver government-funded education, skills and welfare-to-work programmes.

Becta
Becta is the Government's lead partner in the strategic development and delivery of its e-strategy for the schools and the learning and skills sectors.

Excellence Gateway
This is an online portal for anyone who works in the post-16 learning and skills sector in England. With quality improvement at its core, the Excellence Gateway offers you an wide breadth of resources, support and advice, and opportunities to participate and share good practice.

Foundation Degree Federation (fdf)
This national organisation aims to meet the demands of workforce development, business improvement and the knowledge economy, and seeks to stimulate, support and sustain employer partnerships with higher education.

Higher Education Academy (HEA)
The HEA provide support to the Higher Education sector by working with individual academics. Their network of discipline-based subject centres provides a range of services to subject departments. They work with UK universities and colleges, providing national leadership in developing and disseminating evidence-informed practice about enhancing the student learning experience.

Institute for Learning (IfL)
The IfL is a professional body for teachers and trainers and student teachers in the learning and skills sector. By supporting the professional needs of its members it strives to raise the status of practitioners across the sector.

Learning and Skills Improvement Service (LSIS)
LSIS is the new sector‑owned body, formed from CEL and QIA to develop excellent and sustainable FE provision across the sector. LSIS will work in partnership with all parts of the sector to provide vision, leadership, clarity and high quality support; practising and enabling continuous self‑improvement and capacity building.

Learning and Skills Network (LSN)
The LSN aims to deliver quality improvement and staff development programmes that support specific government initiatives, through research, training and consultancy; and by supplying services directly to schools, colleges and training organisations.

NIACE
NIACE (National Institute for Adult Continuing Education) is the leading non-governmental organisation for adult learning in England and Wales. Its aim is to promote the study and general advancement of adult continuing education.

Skills Funding Agency (SfA)
Following the break-up of the Learning & Skills Council (LSC) at the end of March 2010, the Skills Funding Agency came into existence. The funding of adult skills (19-Plus) became the responsibility of this new national body. The National Apprenticeship Service is also part of the Skills Funding Agency.

Young People's Learning Agency (YPLA)
Following the break-up of the Learning & Skills Council (LSC) at the end of March 2010, the Young People's Learning Agency (YPLA) came into existence. From this point onwards, funding for learning and training for young people (16-18) became the responsibility of local authorities and a new national body – the Young People's Learning Agency (YPLA) supports these new arrangements.

The YPLA in the East Midlands is based in Leicester where it shares the office with the Skills Funding Agency, who also have offices in Derby and Lincoln.