eprintid: 10187838 rev_number: 7 eprint_status: archive userid: 699 dir: disk0/10/18/78/38 datestamp: 2024-02-27 10:47:01 lastmod: 2024-02-27 10:47:01 status_changed: 2024-02-27 10:47:01 type: article metadata_visibility: show sword_depositor: 699 creators_name: Spours, Ken creators_name: Grainger, Paul creators_name: Vigurs, Carol title: 'We are all in the same storm but not in the same boat': the COVID pandemic and the Further Education Sector ispublished: pub divisions: UCL divisions: B16 divisions: B14 divisions: J80 divisions: J81 keywords: - COVID pandemic, further education, rapid review research, COVID recovery ecosystems note: © 2022 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http:// creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). abstract: The quotation in the title from a college leader is a stark reflection of the experience of the Further Education (FE) Sector during the COVID pandemic (2020–21). Traditionally regarded as a poor relation of the English education system, evidence from Sector sources suggest that the five COVID harms identified through a scoping review of the latest research closely mirror the main social and educational features of English general FE colleges. The pandemic has led to longer-term harms on vocational learning, with major disruptions to college-based courses and to apprenticeships, a stagnation situation captured in the metaphor ‘educational long-COVID’. The analysis conceptualises the impact of the pandemic on FE provision and learners as leading to a ‘COVID learning and skills equilibrium’; whereas effective mitigations are conceptualised through the idea of ‘COVID recovery ecosystems’. Rapid review evidence suggests that the most effective way of addressing system-wide disruption is the development of integrated, strategic actions at local and regional levels to address vocational learning losses, facilitate greater entry-to-employment and to create more job opportunities for young people. Without these longer-term measures it is likely that the negative effects of the pandemic on the FE Sector could become further entrenched. date: 2022 date_type: published publisher: ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD official_url: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13639080.2022.2149715 oa_status: green full_text_type: pub language: eng primo: open primo_central: open_green verified: verified_manual elements_id: 2241409 doi: 10.1080/13639080.2022.2149715 lyricists_name: Vigurs, Carol lyricists_name: Spours, Kenneth lyricists_id: CVIGU47 lyricists_id: KSPOU42 actors_name: Flynn, Bernadette actors_id: BFFLY94 actors_role: owner full_text_status: public publication: Journal of Education and Work volume: 35 number: 8 pagerange: 782-797 pages: 16 citation: Spours, Ken; Grainger, Paul; Vigurs, Carol; (2022) 'We are all in the same storm but not in the same boat': the COVID pandemic and the Further Education Sector. Journal of Education and Work , 35 (8) pp. 782-797. 10.1080/13639080.2022.2149715 <https://doi.org/10.1080/13639080.2022.2149715>. Green open access document_url: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10187838/1/We%20are%20all%20in%20the%20same%20storm%20but%20not%20in%20the%20same%20boat%20%20%20the%20COVID%20pandemic%20and%20the%20Further%20Education%20Sector.pdf