Skills for Life Network TeamThis practice exemplar from Glasgow Clyde College shows how a partnership approach helped parents, for whom English is a second or other language, to gain practical skills and knowledge to more effectively engage in their children’s learning through storytelling.
Parents will benefit from interactive learning tools and text message tips to support children’s early language and literacy at home, as part of a society-wide push to make sure children start school ready to learn.
The prison reading programme, Books Unlocked, has announced the 10 books that participants will have available to read in 2019. Books Unlocked provides free copies of Man Booker Prize-shortlisted titles for participants in UK prisons to read, discuss and keep.
Many countries need to urgently scale-up and upgrade their adult learning systems to help people adapt to the future world of work, according to a new OECD report.
From academic year 2019 to 2020, full time students with a grade 2 or below in maths or English can choose to study towards functionalskills level 2 or a GCSE grade 9 to 4. This also applies to part time students who have a grade 3 or grade D GCSE.
GCSEs should be scrapped and A-levels should be replaced by a mix of academic and vocational subjects, says Robert Halfon, chairman of the Education Select Committee.
This newly published report, led by US academic Eric Topol, predicts that 90% of all NHS jobs will require digital skills within 20 years, and calls for education providers to take action now to ensure that we are able to gain the benefits that digital healthcare technologies offer.
A scheme to provide free functional skills courses online is being launched by The Open University in partnership with three FE colleges.
On the 11 January Collaborative Project Leads joined our second online Webinar, led by Joanne Miles, extending and reinforcing approaches to measuring project impact explored during their second training day, in London on the 13 of December.
We take a look at current intiatives that aim to enable prisoners to develop coding skills, build their confidence and increase their chances of employment on release.
A commission has been launched to consider the challenges England faces in educating people throughout their lives, 100 years on from the publication of a landmark report which concluded that lifelong learning opportunities are key to the country’s future.
Three cohorts (68 APs) attended Day 3 of the programme in November. The overall ‘flavour’ of the day was one of reconnecting with cohort colleagues and exploring ‘Action and Empowerment’ in the AP role.Â
