Learning and Skills Beacon status has been granted to 14 more providers, bringing the total number to 88.
The presentations were made by Bill Rammell, the minister for lifelong learning, further and higher education, at a ceremony at Westminster.
These are the first Beacons to be granted since the Quality Improvement Agency for Lifelong Learning (QIA) assumed responsibility for the status in April this year.
Learning and Skills Beacon status recognises and celebrates learning providers in the post-16 education sector that deliver high quality and innovative teaching as well as being well-led and managed. Beacons are expected to work with QIA to help improve the performance of colleges and other providers in the sector.
QIA’s chief executive Andrew Thomson said: “I’m very pleased to see these organisations’ commitment to excellence in education and training because that is what the QIA has been set up to champion.
“We believe that the post-16 sector can be a high-performing sector if every organisation in it embraces a culture of continuous self-improvement.”
The 88 Beacons include general FE colleges, tertiary colleges, sixth form colleges, work based learning providers and, adult community learning providers.
