Teachers and trainers in the Further Education and Training sector may be missing the potential of their learners with conditions such as dyslexia, dyspraxia, ADHD and autism by not thinking of them as examples of neurodiversity, according to Remploy’s Kath Wood.

Be it New Year’s resolutions, undertaking the challenge of Dry January or finally making the most of that gym membership, January is a time when a lot of us look to start bettering ourselves and make a bright start to the next 12 months.The Education and Training Foundation (ETF) pull together events and conferences that look to develop the Further Education and Training Sector and its workforce into one calendar.Found on the ETF website, the Events Calendar is a shared workforce development year planner for professionals working in FE. The calendar lists events from AoC, Society for Education and Training (SET), Tes, NICEC (National Institute for Careers Education and Counselling) and many more. Events can be searched for in specific date ranges or through search terms e.g. Apprenticeship. Events are added throughout the year to keep the calendar up-to-date and current.Ann Gravells (@AnnGravells)‏, author of textbooks and resources for the further education & skills sector, tweeted:

The professional, personal and learner benefits of gaining Qualified Teacher Learning and Skills (QTLS) status have been underlined by new research carried out for the Society of Education and Training (SET) by CFE Research.

The Society of Education and Training’s (SET’s) inaugural annual conference was named as the Best Conference Development at the 2018 Association Awards. The conference, titled Pride in Professionalism, took place at Birmingham’s Vox Conference Centre on 7 November. Details, including photographs, are available on the SET website.

The Study Programmes Exhibition Site has been launched by the Education and Training Foundation (ETF) to bring together all the key information and resources to help post-16 providers of study programmes.