The UK’s Further Education and Skills sector is facing major upheavals. Yet coaching has turned out to be a calming influence, suggests an evaluation study from the Learning and Skills Improvement Service. Eve Turner reports It is a time of huge challenge and change in the UK’s Further Education and Skills sector: changes of leadership, mergers, restructuring, redundancies and different and reduced sources of funding. Given the latter, can coaching really make a difference? The answer is yes, a large-scale evaluation study has revealed. The Learning and Skills Improvement Service (LSIS)...