Welcome to
Update, the newsletter from the Skills for Life
Improvement Programme.
It brings you news from colleagues
across the sector who are using our support services to improve
their practice. It tells you about services and resources that you
may want to take up for your own organisation, and for colleagues
and learners.
We hope you enjoy reading the features
and articles and find it informative. If you, your organisation or
your learners would like to be featured in a future edition or if
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Newsletter - 12th
edition
1 - Foreword by Richard Goss, Head of
Learning and Skills,
CfBT Education Trust
4 - Implementing the numeracy
challenge
7 - Differentiation in action in CPD -
SfLIP Regional programme of numeracy pedagogy workshops
9 - Promoting and encouraging Skills for Life in
the construction industry
11 - Volunteers helping ease the WOA
workload at City Lit
13 - Learning from friends in the
north: training teachers at Newcastle College
15 - Commitment to the Skills for Life
Improvement Programme paying dividends for Michaeljohn
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Newsletter - 11th
edition
1
- Foreword by Neil McIntosh, Chief Executive,
CfBT Education Trust
3
- Hairdressing professionals at the cutting edge
of staff development
5 - Fareport Training shifts focus to numeracy
7 - Peer Working Groups - an integral part of the
Improvement
Programme approach
9 - Financial literacy and healthy eating embedded at
Portsmouth Foyer
11 - Harnessing the skills of a Subject Learning Coach to
support a whole
organisation approach to
embedding LLN
13 - Developing Skills for Life in a rural setting
15
- Practical help for Skills for Life teachers and trainers: new
adult core
curriculum makes its
debut on Excellence Gateway
16
- Star Award nominations now open
16
- Contacts
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Newsletter - 10th edition
1 - Foreword by Jenny Burnett,
Executive Director, Learning and Skills Improvement
Service
3 - The Skills for Life Improvement
Programme 2008-09
5 - Embedding (in teacher
education and beyond)
7 - Embedding literacy and
numeracy skills development into hairdressing courses
9 - Skills for Life
Improvement Programme - having a major impact
11 - Championing the cause of
PDP
13 - Achieving buy-in from staff to
Skills for Life
14 - New website resources
15 - Using the Skills for Life Health Check
to drive success
16 - Skills for Life resources
16 - Contacts
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Newsletter - 9th edition
1
- Foreword by
Dame Ruth Silver, inaugural chair of LSIS
3 - Numeracy counts even
more in 2008-09
4 - Numeracy FOR
employability and IN employment
6 - Tourism and Skills
Network on target for Tourism Skills 2015
8 - Very high
satisfaction levels for providers
10 - Changing with the times
improves Prospects
11 - Preparing for life outside
prison
12 - Action in West
London
13 - Skills for Life
success at Shropshire County Training
14 - Building the learner's
journey in the construction trade
15 - Award winning
embedding of Skills for Life
16 - Skills for Life
Improvement Programme 08-09 - Register now
16 - Excellence
Gateway
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Newsletter - 8th edition
1 -
Foreword
by Madeline Held, Director, LLU+
3 - Prison
cluster meeting highlights need for 'buy in'
4 - Guidance on assessment
and learning - 'quick reads'
6 -
A joy and
indulgence - Training the teacher trainer
course
8 - Spotlight
on focus groups
10 - Rural colleges work
together to improve their
offerings
12 - Numeracy challenges and
issues: what people are saying
15 - New
Skills for Life dissemination booklets
15
- New resource films
for Skills for Life trainers
16
- Star Awards &
Contacts
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Newsletter - 7th edition
1 -
Foreword by
Alan Tuckett, Director, NIACE
3 - Evaluating the
Improvement Programme
4 - Get On...with the new
numeracy campaign
5 - Constancy
through changing times
6 - Support for embedding
Skills for Life into vocational learning
8 - Inclusive
teaching and learning
10 - Improving basic
language skills at Bradford College
12 - Skills
for Life Workforce Development
14 - Solving
problems at Jaguar and Land
Rover
15
- Events
16
- Contacts
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Newsletter - 6th edition
1 - Foreword by Graham
Hoyle, CEO of ALP
3 - SfLIP - a
need for more Skills for Life teachers
5 - Training literacy
teachers to teach in prisons
8 - Out of the
shadows and into the spotlight - focus on numeracy
10 - Creative Routes
to qualified status - funding update
11 - Apply now for
remaining places on 07-08 activities
12 - Events and
contacts
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Newsletter - 5th
edition
1 - Foreword
by David Lammy - DIUS
3 - Building on
strengths - SfLIP 2007-08
5 - Skills for Life
Resources
6 - Workforce Development
and Cultural Change
8 - Supporting
individual learners through improved assessment
10 - Partnership teaching
to embed LLN at Northampton College
12 - Embedding Skills for
Life in Entry to Employment
14 - Turning
Point - a successful pilot at HMP Edmunds Hill and HMP
Bedford
16 - Events and
contacts
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Newsletter - 4th
edition
1 -
Foreword by
Ursula Howard - NRDC
2 - Sharing good
practice in numeracy teaching
3 - Compact and
motivational - Literacy teacher training programme
at the University of Sunderland
4 - Key skills flourishing
after college's systematic health check
5 - Fruitful
collaboration to develop embedded schemes of work
6 - Reflective Practice
in Skills for Life teaching - preview of a new resource for teacher
trainers
7- Engaging
young adults not in employment, education or training
8 -
Inspired delegates
at the Developing Excellence events
9 - Events,
courses and contacts and QIA star awards
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Newsletter - 3rd
edition
1 – Foreword by Neil
Robertson - DfES
2 – Improving Family Learning
in Berkshire
3 – West Cumbria
add value for Jobcenter Plus
4 – A4e Success in
Offender Learning
5 – Evaluation
of DfES Assessment tools
6 – Inclusive
Teaching
7 – Better Skills
for Life through teamwork
8 – Events,
courses and contacts
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Newsletter - 2nd
edition
1 - Foreword
2 - Support in a time of
change
3 - Planning for teacher
education reform
4 - Opportunities for
ESOL: find out what's on offer
6 - Development projects
for priority settings
8 - Skills for Life in
Bromley College
10 - Raising the game -
the role Union Learning Representatives
11 - Harnessing
technology for sharing good practice
12 - Better learning -
key to offender employment prospects
14 - The Numeracy
Minimum Core: Addressing the Needs of Trainee Teachers
15 - Professional Management
Team and Changes in teaching qualifications
16 -
Free professional
development events
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Newsletter - 1st
edition
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