Skills for Life Network TeamNext Step provides information, advice and resources to help adults make more effective choices about skills, careers, work and life. Adults can access the service online, or with the help of an adviser either on the telephone or face-to-face.
The Skills Funding Agency (SFA) website now contains a compendium of information and fact sheets on Skills for Life and Functional Skills
Skills Minister John Hayes has set out his vision for apprenticeships and reaffirmed the Government’s commitment to work-based learning and training
Success North was awarded Centre for Excellence in Teacher Training status in July 2007, following a successful submission to the Quality Improvement Agency (now LSIS). Success North is a collaborative partnership led by Newcastle College, and consisting of a diverse range of training providers, groups and organisations within the Lifelong Learning sector.
Baroness Margaret Sharp of Guildford has called for equal status of Qualified Teacher Learning and Skills (QTLS) and Qualified Teacher Status (QTS), the teaching qualifications for FE and schools respectively
Reading for Life is a campaign that focuses on those who are least likely to read. The new Reading for Life website has tips and advice, free downloads, competitions and games.
In a tough speech at the Further Education Mergers, Confederations and Shared Partnerships 2010 conference, Skills Funding Agency Chief Executive Geoff Russell warned senior sector leaders that ‘the money was running out’ and that action sooner, rather than later, was needed to prevent institutions from becoming financially unstable.
These three posters are for practitioners to use in literacy and language classrooms
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
The latest directory of Skills for Life teacher training and professional development programmes for the North West region is now available
This paper, from UKCES, provides a review of recent research, and will be of interest to all those involved in employability skills delivery
IAG event at Newcastle Teaching Development Centre on Wednesday 16th June
