> This issue of 'News from the Workplace Basic Skills Network' includes
> news of our latest bulletin and our professional development programme, a
> seminar on 22nd March in Birmingham on ICT and workplace basic skills, and
> requests for Best Practice examples. ALSO - information on other seminars
> and events (RAPAL, Network Training, Leeds University (a research seminar
> entitled 'do policy-makers ever read research'[!]), NWPost16 Research
> Network, and news from NIACE of a ?1000 Award for workplace learning
> partnerships.
>
> Best wishes
>
> The Workplace Basic Skills Network
> CSET (Centre for the Study of Education and Training)
> Lancaster University, Lancaster, LA1 4YL, England
> email: [log in to unmask], tel 01524 593405, fax 01524 844788
> website http://www.lancs.ac.uk/wbsnet
>
>
> 1. BULLETIN
> Our winter bulletin is just out, including case studies, research and
> professional development news, TUC and other publications information, and
> international links. Contact the Network on wbs.net for details of how to
> join the Network and receive your copy, if you're not already a member.
> Otherwise it will be arriving in the post shortly!
>
> 2. PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT IN WORKPLACE BASIC SKILLS
>
> Reminders of 2 new courses:
> POST GRADUATE DIPLOMA MODULE IN WORKPLACE BASIC SKILLS
> The first ever UK post graduate WORKPLACE BASIC SKILLS MODULE will be
> offered at Lancaster University from 20 April. This is an 18 week
> distance learning course with a one day attendance requirement in April, at
> Lancaster. The module is currently approved as part of the Education
> Research MA programme. Pre-requisite for this course are any of the
> following:
> professional experience in workplace basic skills provision
> PGCE
> BA in Education
> This course will eventually form part of a postgradute Diploma in Adult
> Basic Education to be developed through this university in conjuction with
> other universities in the UK.
>
> USING THE INTERNET IN WORKPLACE BASIC SKILLS (Another 18 week distance
> learning course, for practitioners in workplace basic skills wanting to
> integrate use of the Internet into their work. No prerequisites except
> current experience in workplace delivery). Starts end February - still time
> to join!
>
> See our website http://lancaster.ac.uk/wbsnet (under 'what's new) or
> contact Gill Plant, Professional Development Administrator,
> [log in to unmask] 01524 592273, for further details of these
> courses and our other Professional Development activity.
>
> 3. FORTHCOMING SEMINAR
> USING ICT IN WORKPLACE BASIC SKILLS
> 22 March 2001,
> National Exhibition Centre, Birmingham
> Sponsored by EMDA and Advantage West Midlands, with the support of the
> East Midlands Workforce Basic Skills Forum and the West Midlands Workplace
> Basic Skills Network. FREE to Midlands organisations (and participants on the
> Network's 'Using the Internet in Workplace Basic Skills' and BDB2 courses),
> ?50 plus VAT for Network members, ?75 plus VAT non-members.
> Book early!
>
> This seminar is for basic skills practitioners and coordinators
> involved in delivery of workplace basic skills programmes and interested in
> how they can integrate ICT into this delivery. It will include an 'ICT
> Marketplace' with an opportunity for demonstrating and/or trying out ICT
> materials for adult basic skills delivery and assessment, and 'Networking
> Time'.
> Speakers include:
> * Lesley Crichton, CTAD
> "Target Skills" and other new ICT materials being developed for
> basic skills learners
> * David Rosen, Adult Literacy Resource Institute, Massachusetts - (live
> transatlantic link up)
> How US basic skills learners are using the internet
> * Fiona Frank, Workplace Basic Skills Network
> "Using ICT and workplace basic skills"
> In addition:
> * Case studies from provider/employer partnerships using ICT within
> workplace basic skills programmes
> * Update on UfI/Learndirect
> * Open 'ICT Marketplace'
> * Networking time
>
> You'll find further details and a registration form on our website
> http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/wbsnet or email us on [log in to unmask]
>
>
> 4. REQUESTS FOR EXAMPLES OF BEST PRACTICE: INTEGRATED LEARNING, and ICT
> and workplace basic skills
>
> We are currently looking for examples of best practice in workplace
> ESOL, literacy or numeracy being integrated into a company vocational
> training programme.
>
> We're also looking for good examples of use of ICT within workplace
> basic skills.
>
> If you think your work falls into either of these categories, please
> get back to us with brief details.
>
> Thank you!
>
>
>
>
> 5: OTHER NEWS:
>
> Conferences and Seminars
>
> RESEARCH SEMINAR
>
> Professor Joe Lo Bianco, the author of the Australian National Policy
> on Language and an internationally respected figure in the field of language
> policy will be talking at Leeds: DATE AND TIME: Tuesday 6th March 12.30 -
> 2.00
> PLACE: E.C. Stoner Building Room 7.73, Leeds University, Woodhouse
> Lane,
> Leeds LS2
> His topic is: Do Policy Makers Ever Read Research? Research Knowledge
> and Policy Making
> in Language and Literacy
> In addition to his work in Australia, Joe has done numerous
> international
> consultancies in the language policy field, most recently in Sri Lanka.
> Joe
> is currently a Visiting Professor, Scottish Centre for Information on
> Language Teaching, University of Stirling.
> Anyone within striking distance of Leeds is welcome to attend his
> seminar.
> but if you plan to, could you confirm by e-mail to
> [log in to unmask]
> For those not familiar with the Leeds Campus, a map is available on:
> http://www.leeds.ac.uk/campus/location-maps.html
>
>
> BASIC SKILLS: MEETING NATIONAL CHALLENGES AND TARGETS: a conference in
> Cheshire on 14/15 March, organised by Network Training: Tel. 01823 353354 or
> email on: [log in to unmask]
>
>
>
> North West Post-16 Research Network conference - 8th June. This conference
> is being organised by the Learning and Skills Development Agency in the North
> West, and the Agency is currently calling for contributions of research
> papers, or contributions towards development workshops and/or round table
> discussions. Contact Judith Edwards, email [log in to unmask], tel
> 0151 794 488, for further details.
>
>
> RAPAL annual conference, Fri 22nd June - Sat 23rd June
> at Nightingale Hall, University of Nottingham.
> Theme: Adult Basic Skills - New Policy Initiatives: New Opportunities?
> Keynote speech by Susan Pember, Head of the Basic Skills initiative at the
> DfEE.
> This conference will explore the implications of the new Basic Skills policy
> initiatives for research and practice. Susan Pember, the Director of the
> Adult Basic Skills Unit at the DfEE will open the discussion with a clear
> exposition of the new initiatives. In particular, we will consider ways of
> developing research-in-practice strategies in relation to these new
> initiatives.
> Residential Fee: ?80 Non-Residential Fee (To be decided)
> Contributions are now being invited from tutors and students. Short (please
> send 2-300 word summary) research papers and/or workshop proposals should be
> sent by Friday 20th April to: Carol Taylor, Read On Write Away!, County Hall,
> Matlock, Derbyshire, DE4 3AG. Tel: 01629 585603.
> For information about bookings please contact:Gwen Wilson at the same
> address.
>
>
>
>
> Business Awards of ?1000
>
> If you are a small or medium-sized business and are working in
> partnership with another organisation to encourage learning opportunities
> within the workplace, you still have time to enter for a ?1,000 award.
> The awards are organised by NIACE, the national organisation for adult
> learning, and supported by City & Guilds. Five awards of ?1,000 each will be
> available to those projects whose partners constitute small/medium
> enterprises, or a small/medium-sized business and another organisation, such
> as a TEC, a college, a library, local authority, university, school,
> voluntary organisation, or broadcaster.
> We welcome applications from partnerships who have developed one or
> more of the following:
>
> * improved access to learning for employees
> * effective strategies in supporting learning at work
> * teaching and learning in materials and resources
> * effective strategies for consultation and engagement with employees
> about their learning needs
> * strategies for informing employees about learning opportunities in the
> workplace
> * other innovative ways of reaching and meeting the learning needs of
> employees, such as "e-learning".
>
> You can enter for an award by telling us about your partnership
> project. Please write on one side of A4, giving brief details of the project
> and how you think it fulfils one or more of the criteria above. Please
> address to: Campaigns and Promotions, NIACE, 21 De Montfort Street, Leicester
> LE1 7GE.
> If you win an award you may be invited to a presentation ceremony at a
> national event in London during Adult Learners' Week, 12-18 May 2001.
>
> Deadline extended to: 12 April 2001
>
>
best wishes from the
> Workplace Basic Skills Network
> CSET (Centre for the Study of Education and Training)
> Lancaster University, Lancaster, LA1 4YL, England
> email: [log in to unmask], tel 01524 593405, fax 01524 844788
> website http://www.lancs.ac.uk/wbsnet
>
>
|
