What is the Excellence Gateway?

The Excellence Gateway is the complete online service for everyone working in the further education and skills sector in England. It provides the practical help you need to improve your everyday work and innovate in teaching and learning. It also enables you to share your professional knowledge and examples of effective practice with other practitioners.

What are the benefits of using the Excellence Gateway?

The Excellence Gateway provides thousands of examples of effective practice and support documents to help develop your knowledge and skills which are free of charge to review and download. A wealth of material from learning and skills organisers and leading online resources is also available as well as information from the QIA's existing programmes and services.

Why should I register?

Registering free of charge gives you access to extra features, designed to further help you develop your skills and knowledge. Register now.

Functions available to registered users include:

  • A rating system for all Excellence Gateway resources

You can rate the quality and relevance of resources using a five-star system and flag information you don't find helpful - if resources are rated poorly, this will encourage authors to amend or remove them.

  • The facility to upload your own content

The Gateway is run by and for the further education and skills sector. To make the content as fresh and useful as possible, you are encouraged to submit new material and resources to add to the existing information. Anyone can contribute items to the site and these will be freely accessible and rateable by other users.

  • Your own personal profile

By creating a profile, you can select your interests, save your searches, bookmark resources and receive personalised news feeds. In the future, you will also be able to create your own sections on the site and promote yourself as an expert in a particular field.

  • Discussion forums

You can become part of the Gateway community by taking part in online forums, which range from subject-specific discussions to more general dialogue about the further education system.

  • The possibility to set up and get involved in interest groups

You can establish your own interest group on the Gateway to attract fellow practitioners and share ideas and guidance with them.

Registering is easy and only takes a couple of minutes. So to get the most out of the Excellence Gateway, register today.

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