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Our work

Pillar 2 of 7

Teacher Excellence Network

The heartbeat of NFEC: helping engineering teachers and lecturers learn from each other, from industry and from the best specialists in the country.

Programmes

What we are doing.

NFEC Engineering Exchange

Lecturers and teachers spend a day, a week or a term in another institution, bringing current practice back to their own classrooms.

  • College to college
  • College to university
  • College to employer
  • Employer to college
  • School to college

NFEC Live Lesson Network

Every week, specialist practitioners teach CAD, CNC, robotics, electric vehicles and aerospace, broadcast nationally. Instead of fifty colleges each hunting for scarce expertise, one expert teaches hundreds of learners.

  • CAD
  • CNC
  • Robotics
  • Electric vehicles
  • Aerospace

Standardisation Network

Monthly online sessions on assignment standardisation, assessment review and qualification delivery, growing into regional groups and a national moderation community, so employers can trust that standards are consistent across providers.

Milestones

Three years, step by step.

50+

teacher exchanges a year by Year 3

  1. 1

    Year 1

    • Engineering Exchange launched
    • Monthly online standardisation and assessment workshops
  2. 2

    Year 2

    • Regional exchange grants, with industry partners covering backfill
    • Regional standardisation groups
  3. 3

    Year 3

    • 50+ exchanges a year nationally
    • A national engineering assessment moderation community

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