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These three posters are for practitioners to use in literacy and language classrooms | |
Skills Funding Agency (SFA) Minimum Contract Levels The SFA is about to roll out a £250,000 minimum level for its contracts, which may encourage providers to develop consortia and sub-contracting arrangements with other Training Providers or Colleges | |
Communities of Practice in Adult Literacies (CoPAL) The new CoPAL site, managed by Learning and Teaching Scotland, allows people to share videos as well as engage in discussions | |
Handbook for the inspection of further education and skills This Ofsted handbook has been updated to apply to inspections from September 2010, and provides additional guidance on adult and community learning | |
Widening access to apprenticeships A report by the Young Foundation explores ways to widen the opportunities for apprenticeships to young people who either face barriers to, or have not seriously considered, apprenticeships | |
Free training for trainee teachers on web-based toolkit Skilled to go The Office of Fair Trading is offering free workshops for Skills for Life teacher trainees to introduce its web-based toolkit for adult education, Skilled to go. Training can be delivered at your premises for literacy, numeracy or ESOL-specific trainees, or mixed groups. | |
Handbook for the inspection of community-based offender learning and employability skills This new publication provides guidance on the Common Inspection Framework in the context of community-based offender learning and employability skills | |
UKCES publishes Ambition 2020: world class skills and jobs for the UK This UKCES report states that 10 million people need to improve their skills if the UK is to achieve its ambition of being in the top eight countries in the world for skills, jobs and productivity by 2020 | |
Maths4Us is a joint initiative between unionlearn, NIACE and the National Centre for Excellence in the Teaching of Mathematics (NCETM) that aims to encourage people to tackle numeracy, take-up numeracy learning and have fun with maths | |
Functional Skills - functional skills FAQ Functional skills are practical skills in English, mathematics and ICT that enable learners to deal with practical problems and challenges. They allow individuals to work confidently, effectively and independently in everyday life |
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