Our core
purposes.

The Landex mission is to represent member colleges and work with their staff to enhance the quality of teaching and learning, helping them to aspire to excellence in all that they do to meet the needs of learners and land-based industries.

During this third full year of the company, we have stuck to our mission and successfully delivered our core purposes (highlighted below) by:

• Maintaining and enhancing effective dialogue with industry, government departments, funding bodies and other agencies and organisations including close contacts with: Lantra: Learning and Skills Council; Learning and Skills Improvement Service, DEFRA, DCFS and DIUS and more recently, BIS; Single Voice for self regulation in FE; National Improvement Partnership Board; Farming and Countryside Education; Royal Agricultural Society of England; National Farmers Union; Institute of Horticulture; Equine Industry Forum, AgriSkills Forum and GreenSpace.
• Helping others understand the unique set of issues that impact on the ability of members to work effectively together by explaining and promoting the work of member colleges to all the organisations listed above and by responding to questionnaires and consultations. In particular, we have been proactive in lobbying on matters related to the Machinery of Government changes, discretionary Learner Support Funding and changes to the funding and accreditation of qualifications.
• Ensuring achievement of defined quality criteria within member colleges through robust self regulation and support of continuing improvement processes that have included visits to member colleges and continuous professional development events involving member college staff. A review of the Quality Improvement Strategy (QIS) has been undertaken, significant changes, including the concept of “From Grey to Green”, were the subject of a consultation process culminating in its adoption in November.
• Supporting and promoting member colleges individually and collectively in achieving success through the implementation of the QIS and by increasing the capacity of Landex to provide more and better services to members. In particular, we have appointed two additional Quality Advisers and agreed a contract with GuildHE for the supply of professional services in relation to higher education provision. We have also established a new Finance and Funding Directors Group.