Return-Path: <nifl-workplace@literacy.nifl.gov> Received: from literacy (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.10.2/8.10.2) with SMTP id g6JCDDX00947; Fri, 19 Jul 2002 08:13:13 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2002 08:13:13 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <7823222F821AD311844800204840353A08976C90@exchange2.lancs.ac.uk> Errors-To: listowner@literacy.nifl.gov Reply-To: nifl-workplace@literacy.nifl.gov Originator: nifl-workplace@literacy.nifl.gov Sender: nifl-workplace@literacy.nifl.gov Precedence: bulk From: "Frank, Fiona" <f.frank@lancaster.ac.uk> To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-workplace@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-WORKPLACE:586] FW: News from the Workplace Basic Skills Network X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas Content-Type: text/plain; X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) Status: O Content-Length: 14382 Lines: 329 For your info - apologies for cross-posting. Fiona Frank Workplace Basic Skills Network > -----Original Message----- > From: Chatterjee, Neil [SMTP:neil.chatterjee@lancaster.ac.uk] > Sent: Wednesday, July 17, 2002 4:33 PM > Subject: News from the Workplace Basic Skills Network > > In this month's update: > > 1. Workplace Basic Skills Network Website > 2. Professional Development for Workplace Basic Skills Practitioners > - One Day Courses > - Breaking Down Barriers 1 (BDB1) > - Breaking Down Barriers 2 (BDB2) > 3. Workplace Basic Skills Network Bulletin > 4. Annual International Residential Conference and AGM > 5. Other Dates for Your Diary > 6. Responding to LSC Workforce Development Strategy Consultation > 7. Workplace Basic Skills Practitioners Wanted To Assist With Major NRDC > Project > 8. Developing Literacy and Numeracy through ICT > 9. Requests for Information > > ################################################################## > > 1. Workplace Basic Skills Network Website > The Network's website has recently been redesigned and re-launched. You can > visit the site at <www.lancs.ac.uk/wbsnet>. > > **Membership > You can find details of how to join the Network on our website. Join to > receive > our bulletins and discounted rates at our events and activities - and to > support our work. Alternatively, you can ask to receive details about > membership by e-mailing Sam Coram (<s.coram@lancaster.ac.uk>). > > +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > > 2. Professional Development for Workplace Basic Skills Practitioners > > **One Day Courses > The first in our new series of one-day courses designed to supplement our > 'Breaking Down Barriers' certificate courses took place on Thursday 11th July > in Nottingham, on 'Organisational Needs Analysis for workplace basic skills' > with 31 participants enrolled. They came from all sectors and from all over > the UK. Further courses are planned for the autumn in subjects such as > Marketing, Customising the Curriculum for the Workplace, Funding, ESOL and > the > workplace, Using ICT in workplace basic skills, Getting Started in different > sectors (health, farming, etc....): watch this space for details. > > **Breaking Down Barriers 1 (BDB1) > We are currently re-accrediting our Breaking Down Barriers 1 (BDB1) programme > at level 4 to reflect the new requirements from September 2002 for basic > skills > teacher training qualifications, which will see new basic skills teachers > being > expected to achieve a FENTO endorsed Initial Teacher Training (ITT) > qualification at level 4. The September edition of our bulletin will focus on > the new professional development changes. If you'd like to commission one of > these revised courses, or if you have any further queries in the meantime, > please do not hesitate to contact us on pdenquiries@lancaster.ac.uk or by > phoning 01524 592273. > > **Forthcoming BDB1 courses > Greater Merseyside LSC 16th/ 23rd/ 30th September 2002 > Contact: Margaret Roberts, Tel: 0151 6723553 / e-mail > margaret.roberts@lsc.gov.uk > > South Yorkshire LSC 11th/ 18th/ 25th October > Contact: Amanda Ryalls, Tel: 0114 2813822 / e-mail amanda.ryalls@lsc.gov.uk > > **Breaking Down Barriers 2 (BDB2) > Advanced Certificate in Workplace Language, Literacy and Numeracy training. > This web-mediated distance-learning course will be running again from > September > 2002 to February 2003. > > BDB2 is a highly rewarding and useful course. It is designed to provide > further > study of the contexts, theories and policies that impact on the provision and > delivery of basic skills in the workplace. BDB2 enables practitioners to > familiarise themselves with such issues as the impact of national policy > initiatives and the role of ICT in basic skills. It will also enable > practitioners to position their work in both a regional and national context > facilitating better planning for future provision. > > It is aimed at qualified workplace basic skills tutors who have previously > completed the BDB1 certificate, and qualified and experienced co-ordinators > of > basic skills provision. Applications from individuals without the BDB1 > certificate will be considered on an individual basis. > > For an information sheet and registration form please contact Chris Dealtry, > Professional Development Administrator. Tel: 01524 592887 / e-mail: > <c.dealtry@lancaster.ac.uk> > > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > > 3. Workplace Basic Skills Network Bulletin > The next issue of our National Bulletin is due out in September 2002. > Therefore, we would be keen to hear of any workplace basic skills work you or > your organisation have been involved with. So, if you have any case studies, > regional news, details of events or available resources then please contact > Neil Chatterjee. tel: 01524 592350, e-mail: > <neil.chatterjee@lancaster.ac.uk>. > Contributions should be no more than 4-600 words. The deadline for articles > is > 30th August 2002. > > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > > 4. Workplace Basic Skills Network Annual International Residential Conference > and AGM > Wednesday 13th/Thursday 14th November > Hilton Birmingham Metropole > Theme: 'Involving the Stakeholder in Workplace Basic Skills Programmes' > Keynote Speaker: Professor John Burgoyne, Lancaster University on 'The > learning > organisation and workplace basic skills'. > Other speakers to be announced. > > We are now inviting practitioners and others to offer your good practice with > others by leading participative workshops at this event. Please contact Sue > Batt at the Network (e-mail <s.batt@lancaster.ac.uk>). > > +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > > 5. Other Dates for Your Diary > > #Workplace Basic Skills Network Events > > ****Wednesday 18th September, Lancaster University. > Workplace Basic Skills in the North West. > This event will include - > An input on the latest national developments in adult language, literacy and > numeracy, and workplace language literacy and numeracy in particular, with > Andy > Nelson of the Adult Basic Skills Strategy Unit. A look round Lancaster > University's new Union Learning Funded Staff Learning Centre - the first UK > HE > institution to have a fulltime basic skills worker to meet staff training > needs. A chance to hear about the University's role in the National Research > and Development Centre, including latest information on the new Post Graduate > Diploma in Adult Basic Education. Networking time, a chance to find out > about > other workplace basic skills developments in the North West - and Lunch. > Free to participants in the North West. > Please send an expression of interest to Roberta Herd, Workplace Basic Skills > Network, email <r.herd@lancaster.ac.uk> at this stage, with your name, > address, > and email contact details. > > ****Wednesday 16th October. > Workplace Basic Skills in Greater Merseyside. > An input on the latest national developments in adult language, literacy and > numeracy, and workplace language literacy and numeracy in particular, with > Andy > Nelson of the Adult Basic Skills Strategy Unit. Case Studies of workplace > basic skills programmes in Greater Merseyside (details to be provided). > Networking time, and lunch. > This event is funded by the Greater Merseyside LSC. > Free to participants in the North West. > Please send an expression of interest to Roberta Herd, Workplace Basic Skills > Network, email <r.herd@lancaster.ac.uk> at this stage, with your name, > address, > and email contact details. > > #Other Events > > ****11th September 2002 > 'Peace and Conflict Resolution' - A Call for Papers > This conference at Friends House, Euston Road, London will take the form of a > more or less agenda-less day where people come to address the question: > > "What role can adult learning play in fostering peace, where peace is seen as > just social relations, as well as an absence of conflict?" > > Participants are invited to contribute no more than one side of a sheet of A4 > paper by Wednesday 31 July and speak in support of their papers, at the > conference, as contributions to group work. Groups will work towards > answering > what is to be done in Higher Education, Further Education, community-based > adult learning and in wider society. > Findings will be shared and a shared agenda constructed. Members of the > panel > will respond to what they have heard. > For further details, including programme and booking form, contact: > Philippa Cattell, NIACE,21 De Montfort Street, Leicester LE1 7GE. > Tel: 0116 204 4245 / E-mail: <philippa@niace.org.uk> > > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > > 6. Responding to LSC Workforce Development Strategy Consultation > The Network's response to the Learning and Skills Council Draft Workforce > Development Strategy is now on the website at > <http://www.lancs.ac.uk/wbsnet/wbspolicy.htm>. It owes a lot to the excellent > response prepared by NIACE which can be seen on their website > <http://www.niace.org.uk/> > > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > > 7. Workplace Basic Skills Practitioners Wanted To Assist With Major NRDC > Project > Professors Alison Wolf and Karen Evans from the new National Research & > Development Centre in Adult Literacy and Numeracy are conducting a national > research project looking at the relationship between workplace basic skills > provision and productivity gains, as part of the strand 'A' research brief. > The > project will also look at 'soft indicators' of economic improvement within an > organisation, such as improved staff morale, reduced wastage figures and > increasing numbers of employees making suggestions at work, or going forward > for promotion. The research project now needs to identify some suitable > employer sites for the research. > Initially, Alison and Karen would like to focus on employers such as care > homes > and hospitals, call centres and other 'new' service industry organisations, > and > traditional manufacturers. They are particularly keen to focus on the > following > regions, North West, North East, Derbyshire, London, and the South East; but > expressions of interest from practitioners who are providing workplace basic > skills in any region, will be considered. At the moment, practitioners who > would like to nominate an example of current workplace basic skills > provision, > to be considered as part of the project, are asked to contact Jaine Chisholm > Caunt at the Workplace Basic Skills Network in the first instance. Workplace > basic skills provision need not be a new initiative for an employer, but it > must involve a new cohort of learners (i.e. learners who will enter the > programme in the autumn of 2002 or, preferably, the spring of 2003) who can > be > consulted as part of the research. > > For further details and/or to make an expression of interest, which will not > commit you to becoming involved, please contact Jaine Chisholm Caunt on > <j.chisholm-caunt@lancaster.ac.uk> or (01524) 593498 > > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > > 8. Developing Literacy and Numeracy through ICT > The following extract from the Learning and Skills Countdown Issue 102 should > be of interest to our readers - (you can subscribe to this weekly briefing, > prepared by Inclusion, at <www.lscbrief.org.uk>) > > Ufi, the DfES and the Basic Skills Agency have published a guide for learning > centres in using ICT to develop literacy and numeracy. These are the result > of > a research project investigating the effectiveness of ICT as a learning tool > for people with basic skills needs. Go to > http://www.learndirect-partners.co.uk/coursesandlearning/courses/basicskills/ > ic > tdevelopskills/literacyandnumeracy.pdf > <http://www.learndirect-partners.co.uk/coursesandlearning/courses/basicskills > /i > c> to read the research report and go to > http://www.learndirect-partners.co.uk/media/repository/documentlibrary/course > in > fo/literacyguide.pdf > <http://www.learndirect-partners.co.uk/media/repository/documentlibrary/cours > ei > > for the guide. > > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > > 9. Requests for Information > ***The Basic Skills department at Guildford College needs to screen the basic > skills levels of several hundred cleaning workers at their workplace, using > lap-top computers. The workers will be doing NVQ level 1 and pre-level 1. > They > are looking for a suitable screening programme and would therefore like to > receive advice and/or information about how best to do this. If you can help > please contact Marianne Hutchinson at Guildford College, e-mail: > <mhutchinson@guildford.ac.uk> and copy your replies to the Network. > > ***The Network has received a request for advice on resources that would be > appropriate for a Learning Centre based on an industrial estate. The target > group is those with basic skills needs in the local workplaces, and they will > be delivering mainly through ILT. There is a wide range of businesses on the > Estate including engineering, printing, haulage, autobody repairs, > electrical, > joinery, manufacturing - heating, cosmetics, paints, food equipment etc. At > this stage they are considering mainly resources for common transferable > basic > skills. If you've used useful material you'd like to recommend, please reply > directly to Helen Steele at Skelmersdale College, email: > <helens@skelmersdale.ac.uk>: and copy your reply to the Network. > > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > > > You are receiving this e-mail as a member of the Workplace Basic Skills > Network's 'Wider Interest' e-mail list. To unsubscribe or to transfer your > subscription to another member of your organisation, please contact Sam > Coram, > tel: 01524 592274 or e-mail: <s.coram@lancaster.ac.uk> > > > > > > > > Neil Chatterjee, > Marketing/Communications Officer > Workplace Basic Skills Network > CSET > Cartmel College > Lancaster University > LA1 4YL > > Tel: 01524 593405 > Fax: 01524 844788 > > > wbs.net@lancaster.ac.uk > http://> > > > > > > Neil Chatterjee > Marketing Communications Officer > Workplace Basic Skills Network > Tel: 01524 592350
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