The project focused on appraising a redesign and upgrade of the entirety of a college's quality framework. The upgrading of the quality framework used a whole organisation approach that engaged multiple stakeholders including governors, SMT members, and heads of departments. This development was divided into three stages. The first stage worked on a common inspection framework used by department heads to drive performance. The second stage worked on an operational framework to include a sufficient number of performance indicators, to be mapped onto the common inspection framework. The third stage was a review of the quality indicators and additional reports to provide feedback and changes to the proposed model.

The project focussed primarily on gaining new insights into the role of the clerk within a college through the 'FE clerk community', and to deliver professional learning to the community by engaging clerks in the research process. This was achieved through policy, regulatory, and guidance documentation analysis, literature reviews, and engaging a wide array of clerks across England through regional meetings and a national survey.

This project focused on an alliance between Lincoln College and an employer in the construction sector to engage and update a wide range of techniques in a live work setting, and to provide hands-on experience to the learners in a realistic comtext that emphasised the 'multi-skilled' nature of the work.