Summary: Location: Manchester
“We need to offer all members of society opportunities to learn about the major global issues we face so that each of us can ‘think globally and act locally’ to make a positive contribution. Opportunities for this kind of global learning may be through schools, colleges and universities, or outside formal education... through youth, community and voluntary work” (DEA, 2010).This conference will bring together experts from different learning contexts to lead an exploration of what works in supporting lifelong global learning. Confirmed speakers and workshop facilitators include experienced practitioners from Oxfam, NIACE, Development Education Project Manchester, Development Education Centre South Yorkshire, Y Care International and Nottingham Trent University. If you are an educator in a school, workplace, adult education context or youth setting, join Tricia Hartley, Chief Executive, Campaign for Learning and Kate Brown, DEA, for a full day’s exploration of lifelong approaches to learning for a just and sustainable world.
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Summary: Location: Leicester
NIACE and Skill are jointly running a series of briefing seminars for staff working in the learning and skills sector.The aim of each of the briefing seminars is to examine the Equality Act and what its implementation will mean in practice for learning and skills providers, with particular reference to disabled learners and
carers who are learners. These seminars will help you: review current practice against the new requirements of the Act with particular reference
to disability; meet the Ofsted grade in equality and diversity (a limiting grading factor in the Ofsted framework); meet the new legal requirements on reasonable adjustments and accessible information; understand the Act in terms of positive action
and positive discrimination. These seminars will provide the opportunity to discuss through case studies, ways in which provider policies and systems can avoid indirect discrimination and strengthen duties to make reasonable adjustments for disabled learners. |
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| Summary: Location: Nottingham - Classroom Management - Thursday 23 September
- Differentiation - Wednesday 10 November
- Assessment for Learning - Thursday 9 December
Attend am or pm for plenty of opportunities to share and to come up with new strategies to try with your learners.
What are these ‘surgeries’?
Small, informal meetings for teachers and trainers to facilitate conversations about teaching and learning.
How do they differ from traditional training events?
Although there will be a facilitator and resources to take away and use, the emphasis is on horizontal discussion, peer to peer, sharing issues and coming up with solutions that work.
Will it just be a rambling discussion then?
The facilitator will ensure that the discussion stays focused on the theme, and each event has a specific theme that teachers find to be challenging.
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Contact: EMFEC |
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Summary: Location: London
The psychologist James Britton used the phrase "Reading and writing float on a sea of talk" to describe how important speaking and listening is as the foundation for becoming functionally literate. Using alternatives to worksheets, this highly participative workshop will focus on non-fiction as a starting point, and offer a variety of approaches to support work-based providers in integrating speaking and listening, reading and writing with learners.
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Summary: Location: London
Using technology to get people reading.
The headlines shout that technology - with the wealth of choices and distractions it brings - is directly responsible for the decline of traditional reading, especially among younger adults.The intention of this workshop is to challenge these assumptions and regain a more balanced understanding of technology and reading. Indeed, reading for pleasure is now recognised as a crucial consideration in developing reading literacy and life skills for adults. Acknowledging the increased amount of time people spend online, on mobile phones and iPods, technology should be recognised as an increasingly important medium for reading.
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Contact: NIACE |
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Summary: Location: Derby Conference Centre
The emphasis on the supported employment model in the Learning for Living and Work strategy (LSC, 2006), continues beyond March 2010 with the Young People’s Learning Agency (YPLA) and the Skills Funding Agency. Supported employment is central to achieving the goal of the 2009 cross-government strategy Valuing Employment Now which is to radically increase the number of people with moderate and severe learning disabilities in paid work by 2025. The role of learning providers in embedding the supported employment model in vocational courses, is a crucial part of achieving this goal. Book onlineFREE Event. |
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Summary: Location: London
By taking part in this workshop, you’ll get: a shared understanding of how an Every Adult Matters can increase the effectiveness of planning and commissioning services – for skills, employment, learning, health etc; experience of using the tried and tested JH Consulting Integrated Service Planning tool; ideas, solutions and actions for moving forward to take back to your organisation and partners; the opportunity to network and form contacts with other organisations and colleagues that have an interest in Every Adult Matters.
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Contact: NIACE |
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Summary: Location: Leicester
Following the general election and the Spending Review, public spending on adult education is almost certain to decline over the next five years. This session seeks to build the capacity of those involved in campaigns to protect formal and informal adult education, recognising that adult education is not simply a public service but also an instrument of cultural change.
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Summary: Location: Nottingham
Sponsored by LSIS project monies, come and see the project outcomes of a regional E&D partnership project on community cohesion. You will receive a toolkit of practical activities mapped to the new Equality Act, along with detailed training notes to support staff who are working to raise learners’ awareness and to promote equality, diversity and inclusion in educational and training settings. The day will also include input and activities facilitated by a specialist E&D trainer on how to effectively challenge banter and inappropriate comments. View further information above for more details. |
Contact: EMFEC |
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Summary: Location: Leicester
This workshop aims to:
- provide an opportunity for participants to share
ideas on different approaches to supporting groups
and clubs which plan their own learning.
-introduce participants to resources which can help them and the groups that they support including how to find meeting spaces and how to get the best from technology.This event will be of interest to those who support the
development of informal learning groups, including:
Outreach and development workers; Staff in museums; Libraries and archives services; Staff in the health sector who support patient self-help groups; Staff or members of faith groups; Voluntary or community organisations involved in informal learning; Providers of adult learning courses who support existing learners to set up their own self organised learning groups. |
Contact: NIACE |
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| Summary: Location: Nottingham - Classroom Management - Thursday 23 September
- Differentiation - Wednesday 10 November
- Assessment for Learning - Thursday 9 December
Attend am or pm for plenty of opportunities to share and to come up with new strategies to try with your learners.
What are these ‘surgeries’?
Small, informal meetings for teachers and trainers to facilitate conversations about teaching and learning.
How do they differ from traditional training events?
Although there will be a facilitator and resources to take away and use, the emphasis is on horizontal discussion, peer to peer, sharing issues and coming up with solutions that work.
Will it just be a rambling discussion then?
The facilitator will ensure that the discussion stays focused on the theme, and each event has a specific theme that teachers find to be challenging.
Book online
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Contact: EMFEC |
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Summary: Location: Nottingham
The Common Inspection Framework emphasises the need for providers to develop their learners’ economic and social well-being, particularly their employability. This session considers the skills and abilities employers look for and the ways in which employability and the development of employability skills can be integrated into learning and teaching, rather than as stand-alone provision. View further information above for more details. |
Contact: EMFEC |
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| Summary: Location: Nottingham - Classroom Management - Thursday 23 September
- Differentiation - Wednesday 10 November
- Assessment for Learning - Thursday 9 December
Attend am or pm for plenty of opportunities to share and to come up with new strategies to try with your learners.
What are these ‘surgeries’?
Small, informal meetings for teachers and trainers to facilitate conversations about teaching and learning.
How do they differ from traditional training events?
Although there will be a facilitator and resources to take away and use, the emphasis is on horizontal discussion, peer to peer, sharing issues and coming up with solutions that work.
Will it just be a rambling discussion then?
The facilitator will ensure that the discussion stays focused on the theme, and each event has a specific theme that teachers find to be challenging.
Book online
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Contact: EMFEC |
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