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The TrainingZONE LearningWIRE - Issue 22
16 November 1998B
https://www.trainingzone.co.uk
The Learning Community
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- Education-related matters
- Declaration on Learning - continued
- Training news stories
- Parenthood Education News
- Institute of Continuing Professional Development News
- Surf Spots
- Subscription Information
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Editor's Note
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This week we've started to index some pages from the American Society of Training and Development website to bring you relevant news and developments from across the Atlantic. Also this week there have been several developments in the education field which will be of interest to teachers and lecturers amongst our audience. The debate around the Declaration on Learning seems to be continuing too.
Tim Pickles,
Editor, LearningWIRE and TrainingZONE
mailto:tpickles@trainingzone.co.uk
Education-related matters
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The Department for Education and Employment have moved their website
from a sub-directory of the previous Open Government site to their
own branded site at:
http://www.dfee.gov.uk/
All the information previously available is now at this new site.
We shall watch to see if additional material related to training,
learning and development is published.
On the education and training jobs front, two sites you might want
to watch are the Times Educational Supplement jobs pages
http://www.jobs.tes.co.uk/
which is updated every week, and the recruitment service provided by
the National Association of Managers of Student Services whose web
site provides an index of training and education jobs in several
sectors at
http://www.namss.org.uk/jobs_teach.htm
The National Grid for Learning has had its own website for some time at
http://www.ngfl.gov.uk/
Within this site, there is now an area devoted to developments and
announcements concerned with both lifelong learning and the new
University for Industry. The page is
http://www.ngfl.gov.uk/ngfl/llufl/llufl.html
Declaration on Learning - continued
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The reference to this new Declaration in last week's issue led to
responses. This is clearly a significant issue for many people.
The original reference is at
https://www.trainingzone.co.uk/cgi-bin/item.cgi?id=1985&d=1&dateformat=%o-%B
The following thought-provoking contribution comes from Ben Akpera
at Unicef:
"The subjeect considered on learning is very crucial for the 21st century. The world, through organizations, will continue to discover the place of Human Resources as its most critical resources. Information technology will subsidize operations and work processes as well as enhance the incorporation of control measures in routine tasks. This will make the movers and managers of infotek, i.e. peoplesware, most important especially when well empowered.
Training and learning will definitely continue to grow on to very high proportions that could lead to an explosion in the 21st century. Mangers, leaders of household units and individuals will, day-by-day, find it imperative to save scarce resources and enhance living standards and operations with minimal training. Since the world will be a global village, this phenomenon would soon look as a norm as crude and unrefined approaches to productive activities becomes too costly to bear. The choice will then be glaring.
The other crucial factor to consider in the 21st century will likely be the redefinition of the worth and capability of the human brain. Emphasis will be laid on a better employment of the brain for more value adding exercises. Computer technology will definitely continue to provide an easy bank for information and data that had hitherto been left dormant on the human brain. Training/learning will be required to effect this seemingly inevitable reorientation of humanity. Those left out of this game will pay a very high price.
When this stage is set, the worth of human physical energy and crude operations will be highly undervalued thus further reemphasizing the inevitability of continuous training/learning.
Globalisation on is, today, the peak of man's team-building effort. This, in the 21st century, will unconsciously break the protruding walls that have been built on social-cultural lines. The necessity of cooperation and conformity for survival will be an unbiased umpire to oversee and ensure the prioritization of this huge empire by all. There is no overemphasis to add that the desire to impact, rather than hoard, information will become a keenly contested game. Power and superiority will be proved by this acid test thus making deviants feel out of tune with that which will be generally acceptable as reality.
For those who are already engaged in training and learning development, we all have to look into the future with great expectations and challenges. To the extend to which I perceive of their stand, I agree with the authors of this provocative debate that learning will be the central issue for the 21st century."
Copies of the Declaration are available at
http://www.peterhoney.co.uk
Training news stories
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Toolkit for web-based learning
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Fastrak Consulting have designed and published resources to assist
in web-based learning programmes
https://www.trainingzone.co.uk/cgi-bin/item.cgi?id=2021&d=1&dateformat=%o-%B
November issue of ASTD magazine
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This month's issue of the American Society of Training and Development's
online magazine carries features about multimedia-based training,
piloting web-based training, and trends in workplace learning
https://www.trainingzone.co.uk/cgi-bin/item.cgi?id=2020&d=1&dateformat=%o-%B
http://www.astd.org/virtual_community/td_magazine
Scotia 2 Update
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The partnership of companies involved in developing the learning
opportunities database as part of the Learning Direct initiative
have published a further update to assist groups and individuals
whose work relates to this field of programming and information
delivery
https://www.trainingzone.co.uk/cgi-bin/item.cgi?id=2041&d=1&dateformat=%o-%B
Parenthood Education microsite news
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http://www.parenthood.org.uk
A new National Family and Parenting Institute
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The Government's consultation paper heralded by Jack Straw last week
has followed at least one of his brother's recommendations in the
Demos Paper on Families published earler this year. You can download
a copy of the paper from
http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/vcu/sfpages.pdf
You will need Adobe Acrobat to read the text. If you don't have a
copy, download this software from any of several sites including
the Home Office's own news page at
http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/new.htm
The new Instititute will co-ordinate efforts by various local
authorities, government departments and voluntary sector
organisations involved with the family. Recent research by the
Joseph Rowntree Foundation showed that parents have little
knowledge of what parent support is available. Most parents
interviewed wanted more support and felt that they would use
such a service.
http://www.jrf.org.uk
The Institute will :
- provide authoritative advice to government on family and child policies
- map and disseminate information and good practice
- help deliver parenting support programmes
- influence the research agenda
- raise public awareness of the importance of good parenting
- develop a national help line for parents.
Theatre in Education awarded grant for parenthood play
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Rochdale's M6 theatre company today heard this week that they
have been awarded a substantial grant to produce a new play on
parenthood from the Gulbenkian Foundation. They will be
commissioning a writer to produce a groundbreaking piece to go
out to schools and youth groups in the year 2000. Congratulations
M6!
ICPD microsite News
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http://www.icpd.co.uk
Surf Spots
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Some websites you may have missed!
Fed up of late trains? Try the GNER site (available from 1
December). No, that's not Great North Eastern Railways - it's
the new moan 'Getting Nowhere Early or Reliably' site.
http://www.gner.net
Need to find a train connection faster than National Rail
Enquiries? Try
http://www.railtrack.co.uk/travel/index.html
Missed the launch of the Prince of Wales's website? Nevermind, its
at:
http://www.princeofwales.gov.uk
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