RSC YH Exchange

The Royal National College for the Blind (RNC) is a specialist residential College of further education and training, working with people from the age of 16, who are blind or partially sighted, to promote their independence and potential. RNC provides a range of full time programmes and short courses designed to prepare people for progression [...]

The Quality Improvement Agency’s (QIA) Excellence Gateway (EG), a complete online service for all those working in FE & Skills in England, has been going from strength to strength and helping colleges and providers in their pursuit of excellence, innovation and improvement.
EG gives everyone working in the further education system the opportunity to improve their [...]

Publishers Lookup UK is a website created by JISC TechDis and the Publishers Association.
Its purpose is to help users to identify the key publisher contact when they need to obtain accessible documents for disabled learners. There is also some guidance on what users may expect to get from publishers.
The aims of the site are:

to make [...]

As part of their regional workshop programme Netskills are delivering the following workshop at Newcastle University in September:
CSS: A Complete Web Style Toolkit, 18th September
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This workshop and offers a complete, practical guide to the use of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) to deliver professional-looking, accessible and cost-effective web content. If you are familiar with the basics [...]

Tony Hirst (OU) has created a google custom search to look for open courseware and open educational resources. You can access the search page from
http://www.google.com/coop/cse?cx=009190243792682903990%3Ae40rcqv1bbo
The list of sources, almost 250 in total, is here
http://zaidlearn.blogspot.com/2008/06/university-learning-ocw-oer-free.html.
It is mainly for HE but suitable for FE and schools aswell.

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Visit this new EU website for teachers and technology. As well as giving guides and information about subjects such as blogs and wikis, there are interesting features in the ‘current issues’ section on:

cyberbullying
searching the internet
privacy and personal safety

There is also a jargon buster and various other resources, including facts and figures answering questions [...]