Read our CEO's latest blog On the funding crisis in FE
Rebecca Garrod-Waters comments on how the UK needs a skills system that champions vocational skills
The Ufi Strategy
Our aim is to help improve vocational skills in the UK's workforce by funding digital solutions for vocational learning. We only fund activity that is ‘scalable’ through technology, ie projects that use digital methods to widen access to vocational learning. While digital learning solutions are potentially open to all, we are especially keen to assist digital projects which involve post school age vocational learners that have failed to be engaged by the education system.
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Funding and Events
Attend one of our events or join a webchat to find out more about funding your project.
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Our projects
Learn more about the digital projects we fund and the difference they make. Read our delivery plan for 2018.
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How to apply
We give funding to people who can help us revolutionise adult learning through technology. Apply to us if you've got an imaginative idea to use digital technology for adult vocational learning.
About Ufi
We fund projects which act as catalysts for change
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70 Funded projects
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256,000 people involved
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£4,860,470 in grant funding
What are we looking for in 2018?
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Innovative, tech led solutions to improving adult vocational learning in the UK -
Projects where some technology development has already taken place and our funding can help to accelerate its development -
Proposals for products or services that can be scaled up to reach a large number of learners and thus have significant impact
Latest news
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VocTech Impact: Stage 2 opens
14
Aug
2018Today marks a further step in our search for large scale projects which use genuinely innovative digital methods to raise the skill levels of vocational learners.
We have reviewed all of the initial applications to the VocTech Impact fund and have invited those who best met our criteria to submit a further more detailed Stage 2 application. So check your inboxes. The deadline for submitting Stage 2 applications is 7th September (5pm).
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Intelligent campus hackathon
19
Jun
2018Jisc are inviting student teams from across the UK to help build the campus of the future. They are looking for some creative students to spend a week in August building and testing tools that can enhance the student experience.The aim of the August 'hackathon' is for student teams to design, develop and build “something” that would benefit students in the world that is the intelligent campus. Teams should ideally be between 2-4 people.
There's up to £1,000 in prizes up for grabs, and Jisc will provide equipment and cover accommodation and expenses.
Latest tweets
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it works
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Young people need top-quality Further Education Colleges now more than ever. https://t.co/X0KOLtqsgy #VocTech… https://t.co/vMj3dlG2sT
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"We have seen emergency funds being dished out to colleges across the country to stop them from collapsing" Read… https://t.co/J7XXL0FSVi
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Do androids dream of Auto Enrolment? Read the article from our CEO that was featured in issue 167 of @theHRDIRECTOR https://t.co/pEHDyXhhh5
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"We need a skills system that champions vocational skills" - @RebeccaGW's response to budget squeezes in FE college… https://t.co/eEmbCNqk7I
