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The TrainingZONE LearningWIRE - Issue 23
23 November 1998
https://www.trainingzone.co.uk
The Learning Community
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- Internet Monitor
- Training news stories
- Parenthood Education News
- Institute of Continuing Professional Development News
- Surf Spots
- Events Diary
- Subscription Information
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Editor's Note
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This issue focuses on current news and internet monitor stories. If you have any items of news which you would like us to publicise to our growing audience, please get in touch. We're also experimenting with a new Events Diary to publicise forthcoming events of interest to our readership. Please read the notes at that section if you would like to publicise your events. Similarly, if you've found websites of interest to the training/ learning community which you think others would be interested in - just drop me an email. Thanks.
Tim Pickles,
Editor, LearningWIRE and TrainingZONE
mailto:tpickles@trainingzone.co.uk
Internet Monitor
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European Social Fund
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The Government has launched a website providing information and news
about current training initiatives and developments funded by the
European Social Fund. Objective 4 (1998 - 9) will provide 160 million
for projects that help to facilitate the adaptation of workers to
industrial change. It will focus on employees threatened with
unemployment or affected by changes in production systems.
In Britain objective 4 will support the strategy for workforce development set out in the Green Paper 'The Learning Age'. The money is intended to support small and medium sized enterprises and has three priority levels:
Priority 1: Planning for Change
Priority 2: Tackling change through the development of the workforce
Priority 3: Reinforcing solutions to change
http://www.esfnew.org.uk
BBC Learning Zone
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The BBC website is one of the largest and possibly the most well-used
UK website. For over a year, the BBC has been promoting its
Learning Zone. In addition to carrying material related to Open
University and other more formal learning contexts, the Learning
Zone promotes the notion that there is much to be learned from
watching and following up mainstream programming. This well-indexed
site will direct you to much useful learning linked to programmes on,
for example, antiques, food and drink, technology, women, music.
It's a wonderful example of lifelong learning in practice - and the
opportunity to learn from the most ordinary materials in our
everyday lives.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/learn
Well worth a bookmark!
https://www.trainingzone.co.uk/cgi-bin/item.cgi?id=2021&d=1&dateformat=%o-%B
Training news stories
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Institute of Personnel and Development National Conference Report
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A full report on the largest UK conference for human resource
professionals held in Harrogate recently can be found in the
special edition of 'People Management'
https://www.trainingzone.co.uk/cgi-bin/item.cgi?id=2066&d=1&dateformat=%o-%B
http://www.peoplemanagement.co.uk/hgmenu.htm
Guardian Jobs website moves
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The excellent recuitment pages from each day's issue of The Guardian
newspaper has moved from the RecruitNet site to
http://www.jobsunlimited.co.uk
The selection is particularly good for vacancies in the public sector
and the not-for-profit sector, with a wide range of training and
development jobs normally included.
New resources from Peter Honey Publications
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Two new titles have just been published. 'The Competence Toolkit' is
"a practical way to use competencies to analyse and develop the jobs
and skills of managers". Written by Paul Whiteley and Graham Robinson,
the pack is fully photocopiable and costs 135.
https://www.trainingzone.co.uk/cgi-bin/item.cgi?id=2026&d=1&dateformat=%o-%B
'Improving Learning: practical strategies for schools', extends the
learning approach to a schools context and will be of obvious benefit
to teachers and leaders wishing to enhance their work with young
people. Again, fully photocopiable, the cost is 80.
https://www.trainingzone.co.uk/cgi-bin/item.cgi?id=2063&d=1&dateformat=%o-%B
We'll try to review these titles shortly.
Experiential learning beats rules-based training
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Challenging article by Andrew Leigh in the current issue of People
Management challenges the value of many "10 trick for better ----"
style courses as widely promoted by several companies to attract
large audiences. Argues that little can beat good experiential
based learning for gaining techniques and tips.
https://www.trainingzone.co.uk/cgi-bin/item.cgi?id=2085&d=1&dateformat=%o-%B
Parenthood Education microsite news
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http://www.parenthood.org.uk
How do you tackle divorce in parenthood lessons?
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The government's recent announcements on marriage and the family have
caused some teachers to groan at the prospect of facing difficult
and complex questions about the relative merits and pitfalls of divorce
and separation. It's often useful to get the facts straight before
you start - and that doesn't mean reading the Sun editorial. The
Joseph Rowntree Foundation has many useful research digests on
social policy and family issues. One of their latest published
reports is 'Divorce and separatio: The outcomes for children'
Research over many decades about the impact of divorce and separation
on children has generated useful knowledge, but also led to confusion
and misunderstanding. JRF's comprehensive review of over 200 research
reports finds:
- Parental separation is most usefully viewed as part of a process beginning before divorce itself and continuing long after. Support may be needed and intervention required at any stage to reduce possible detrimental effects on children.
- Although short-term distress at the time of separation is common, this usually fades with time and long-term adverse outcomes typically apply only to a minority of children experiencing the separation of their parents.
- However, these children have roughly twice the probability of experiencing specific poor outcomes in the long term compared with those in intact families.
Use JRF's own search engine to generate other useful facts and
stats for PSE lessons at:
http://www.jrf.org.uk/search.html
ICPD microsite News
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http://www.icpd.co.uk
Surf Spots
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Want a last minute holiday? Looking for ticket bargains. One of
the biggest companies in this field has just established their UK
website with a range of features at
http://www.travelocity.co.uk
In the cut-throat world of book selling, Amazon have just opened
their UK store selling over a million different titles on-line.
There are many more titles here than in any high street retailer.
It's quite an experience if you know what you want!
http://www.amazon.co.uk
Events diary
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A new feature listing forthcoming events of potential interest to
LearningWire readers. If you would like a listing, please send
brief relevant details to the editor together with an email or
web address for further information.
Risk Management for the Non Profit Sector - 26 November, London
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Examines role of trustees and risk management, use of a Business
Risk Model, case study demonstrating it's use and chance for
delegate to map-out significant risk affecting their organisations.
http://www.ncvo-vol.org.uk
mailto:haroon.bashir@ncvo-vol.org.uk
Inside Outsourcing - 10 December, London
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Examines trends in outsourcing both in private and voluntary/
public sectors. Factors driving outsourcing, using professional
advisors.
http://www.ncvo-vol.org.uk
mailto:haroon.bashir@ncvo-vol.org.uk
Learning Declaration Conference - 12 January 1999, London
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The Association for Management Education and Development (AMED is
organising a one-day event on the recently published Declaration
to be attended by seven of the signatories. A great opportunity
to debate the Declaration, review its proposals, and agree what
should be done about learning.
http://www.management.org.uk
mailto:peterhoney@peterhoney.co.uk
About Sift
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