What can be done to improve differential performance
within colleges? Why do colleges perform differently
across areas of learning? Why cannot the weakest
departments within a college learn from the best?
In 2002, the Learning and Skills Development Agency
set out to explore these questions through a
research project aimed at identifying how colleges
spread good internal practice to ensure optimal
performance across all areas of provision.
This booklet reports on that research.
Untapped sources of knowledge, skills and
good practice exist in all colleges, but much more
needs to be done to capture and use this intelligence
to improve overall organisational performance.
This report :
■ provides some context and rationale
for sharing good practice internally
■ considers how colleges identify, validate and share
good internal practice
■ examines critical factors that support or inhibit
the transfer of internal good practice
■ suggests ways of developing a strategy
for sharing good practice within colleges.