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The fast moving news and information channel for teachers, managers and supporters of functional skills and GCSE maths & English, digital skills, ESOL, employability and SEND.
This free course traces the history of prisoner education in Britain, which started at the turn of the nineteenth century with schemes to improve the literacy and numeracy of prisoners.
A key recommendation in this new report from the Labour Party is that adults should be entitled to free digital skills courses up to level 2, in line with the equivalent English and maths entitlements.
The next meeting of the Essential Skills and Inclusion Network will be held online on the 11th of November. All Practitioners of English, Maths, ESOL, SEND and digital skills working in the prison sector are welcome.
New resources mapping the Professional Standards for Teachers and Trainers to the career development of practitioners have been released by the Education and Training Foundation.
New Safeguarding and Prevent training
New, in-depth format training courses to support the FE and Training sector with some of the most challenging areas of Safeguarding, Prevent and British Values have been launched by the Education and Training Foundation.
Tenders Update December 2022
Take a look at Tenders Update December 2022 for an overview of the latest opportunities open to providers of services to the Essential Skills sector.
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GCSE maths for post-16 learners
Written by an experienced maths teacher, this book aims to support achievement of Functional Skills maths and/or foundation level GCSE maths for learners.
Teacher training at Newcastle College
Take a look at the teacher training opportunities available at Newcastle College, which include generic teaching courses and also specialist maths, English, ESOL and LDD/SEND PGCE programmes.
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