Cogency Research and Consulting Ltd

Research and consultancy: improving teaching and learning in post-14 education

Consultancy

We provide a wide variety of strategic and improvement-related consultancy for our clients

Below are some examples of the kind of activities we have undertaken

Documentation

We do a significant amount of work that involves preparing documents that accurately reflect the views of one or more contributors. Examples include:

  • Bids for special funding
  • Partnership agreements
  • Policies
  • Strategies

We prepared, for example, five successful bids for joint Centres of Vocational Excellence in Sussex that between them brought in nearly £4million of additional funding

Feasibility studies

Some of our clients use us to investigate the feasibility of potential projects or proposals as well as their likelihood of success

e-Learning

We have expertise in helping people develop their e-learning solutions. For example, we advised a university on the purchase of a new Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) and Jorj has been a preferred consultant to the JISC eLearning Framework Programme

Quality

We have helped colleges prepare for inspection or other external assessment. This kind of work has included:

  • Coaching for assessment
  • Ensuring relevant documentation meets the expected standards
  • Suggesting ways of improving or simplifying quality assessment regimes