Personal learning plans
Personal learning plans have been around for centuries. Anyone who has been able to sustain personal growth through intellectual, physical or spiritual pursuits has done so with the help of a personal learning plan.Barrie Oxtoby offers some suggestions on their form and use in this succinct new article on the LearningBuzz website. Personal learning plans […]
Effective leadership
The twelve principles of effective leadership Being a leader of others is just about the most demanding role that you might face in your career. The bad news is that there are no short-cuts to effective leadership. It’s pretty much hard work all the time; often with no thanks or recognition from those you ‘serve’. As […]
Learning and Skills Council prospectus launched
Following the white paper on ‘Learning to Succeed’ and the announcement of legislation in the Queen’s Speach at the opening of this parliamentary session, the DfEE has now published its prospectus for The Learning and Skills Council David Blunkett, speaking to a business audience about the new Learning and Skills Council at 10 Downing Street […]
National Adult Learning Survey report findings
In the current issue of Individual Learning News, Richard Ingham, reports – ‘PATHWAYS IN ADULT LEARNING’, a report written for the DfEE by Ivana La Valle and Steven Finch of the National Centre for Social Research, draws together research into four and a half years of learning activity or inactivity. Three of those years involved […]
Electronic Training Village seeks survey respondents
In a continuing effort to understand and meet needs in the field of vocational training, we at the Electronic Training Village will be conducting a series of on-line surveys where information will be collected that will help us improve our services. The first survey in the series, ‘Technology Supported Learning’ will be sent out in […]
Vacancies for Development Officer with Basic Skills Agency in N. England
Pending the creation of the new Jobs area on TrainingZone, this recruitment advert is placed on the Tenders page for information:——————–Basic Skills AgencySenior Development Officer – North of EnglandWe have four Senior Development Officers who are responsible for managing and leading our teams of Development Officers. This post is concerned with managing our team responsible […]
IT, learning and legal education: April 2000 conference
BILETA 2000 Conference: ‘World Wide Law’The 15th Annual BILETA (British & Irish Legal Education Technology Association) International Conference.Thursday 13-Friday 14 April 2000Scarman House Conference CentreUniversity of WarwickCoventry, UKPlease note the 15th Annual BILETA Conference will now take place on Thursday 13th to Friday 14th April 2000 (previously 17-18 April) in the new venue of Scarman […]
Livening up lunch breaks with literature
If the scheme had a slogan, it might be “the company that reads together succeeds together”. At least 100 workplace reading groups have grown out of “Orange Talks Books at Work” – this year’s education initiative from the Orange Prize for Fiction, and part of the government’s Year of Reading – and have brought some […]
Vocational Education: study visits
The Study Visits programme has been a specific CEDEFOP activity since 1985. Study visits allow small groups of vocational training specialists of different nationalities to visit locations that provide insight into the vocational training situation in the host country. To date, specialists from 27 countries have taken part in the programme. In the course of […]
Urban technology job training
CitySkills.org is the first interactive web community devoted to urban technology job training. CitySkills.org works with community-based trainers and helps build capacity to train motivated adults from “under-represented neighborhoods” with the right skills for careers in web development. CitySkills.org is the first interactive web community devoted to urban technology job training. CitySkills.org works with community-based […]
Networking with The Consultants’ Network
The Consultants’ Network – a network of around one hundred self employed training, personnel and management consultants (including a number of learningwire subscribers) has gone on-line @ Membership of the network is free! They have a national membership, although most of the membership is based within two hours of Milton Keynes. They […]
Association of External Verifiers
Targeted specifically at External Verifiers this new Association (launched in June 1999) aims to establish an independent, dynamic, inclusive, professional national association, that will be of benefit to EVs and other key bodies by providing information, networks and feedback. Targeted specifically at External Verifiers this new Association (launched in June 1999) aims to establish an […]
A Fresh Start – government response to Moser Report on basic skills
Earlier this month, the government published its response to the report of a working group chaired by Sir Claus Moser into post-school basic skills, ‘A Fresh Start’.The response is available for reading and downloading on the Lifelong Learning website. Earlier this month, the government published its response to the report of a working group chaired […]
Conferences coming up
Conference, Manchester, United Kingdom 4th Annual Conference for Staff and Educational Developers “On Reflection…”22 to 23/11/99United Kingdom, Manchester Conference CentreOrganisers:SEDA Staff and Educational Development AssociationContact:SEDASelly Wick House 5961 Selly Wick RoadSelly ParkBirminghamB29 7JEUnited KingdomTel.(44-121) 415 68 01Fax (44-121) 415 68 02E-mail:office@seda.demon.co.ukConference, Liverpool, United Kingdom Implementing and Managing Organisational Change (NIACE Annual Race Equality Conference 1999)Date: […]
“Goodbye training, hello learning”
From Workforce Online: extract from an article by Eileen M GargnerIt’s the training tool worthy of the next millennium. It’s tiny, actually — a fraction of the size of an infant’s fingernail, half as thin, and weighs less than a strand of human hair. Yet this incredible chip can “store and deploy” an organization’s entire […]
Extending New Deal and moderning Jobcentres
In a DfEE press release this week, David Blunkett welcomed the Chancellor’s announcement about extending New Deal programmes to those aged over 25, and clarified plans to modernise JobCentres.A new allocation of £50 million from the Capital Modernisation Fund will help bring jobcentres into the twenty-first century, Education and Employment Secretary David Blunkett said today, […]
Emotional Intelligence ‘is the key’
The People Management website is offering detailed coverage of speeches at the IPD national conference. Daniel Goleman made a strong appeal for the development of emotional intelligence – reports Jane Pickard and Eila Rana“The key to success in a career lies in soft skills such as empathy and self-awareness, rather than in IQ, keynote speaker […]
UK ‘must close skills gap’
The People Management website is reporting the main speeches at the IPD Conference: IPD president Sir Geoffrey Holland demands radical rethink of training policy – story by Jane Pickard“Sir Geoffrey Holland has called on the government to put in train further reforms to tackle the UK’s skills deficit.Reminding delegates that output per head in the […]
Do you know about the NVQ in Port Security?
Does anyone have any information on the NVQ in Port Security?Jackie CliffordPlease use Comments below to submit suggestions. Thanks. Does anyone have any information on the NVQ in Port Security?Jackie CliffordPlease use Comments below to submit suggestions. Thanks.
National Training Organisations ‘key to lifting skill levels’
From a DfEE press release:Lifelong Learning Minister Malcolm Wicks told the National Training Organisations that they are the key to levering up skills levels. In the new structure for delivering training at work and workforce development described in the White Paper, Learning to Succeed, the NTOs will have the pivotal role of identifying skills shortages […]