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 g9FI9OX01020; Tue, 15 Oct 2002 14:09:24 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2002 14:09:24 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <7823222F821AD311844800204840353A08977246@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:627] FW: Workplace Basic Skills Network Annual Residential Conference, 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: 2791 Lines: 68 *** 13th/14th November 2002 Workplace Basic Skills Network Annual Residential Conference and AGM Birmingham Hilton Metropole, Birmingham The Stakeholder in Workplace Basic Skills This conference will focus on 'The Stakeholder in Workplace Basic Skills'. The conference will look at all stakeholders involved in workplace language, literacy and numeracy programmes. This includes the learner as well as the training provider, employer, unions and others. There will be a broad spectrum of workshops ranging from 'Initial Assessment in the Workplace' and 'Employer/Provider Partnerships' to 'Developing an ESOL Curriculum for the Workplace'. Over both days there will be useful workshops for those relatively new to workplace basic skills, as well as sessions on 'Moving On in Workplace Basic Skills' for those wanting to find out how they can develop their current practice. There will also be ample opportunities available for networking and resources to view at different stalls. The conference is aimed at all stakeholders involved in workplace basic skills programmes - from England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland and from further afield. This includes training providers, practitioners, employers, unions, the Sector Skills Councils and local, regional and national funders and policy makers. Speakers will include: - Barry Brooks Head of Standards, Quality and Curriculum, Adult Basic Skills Strategy Unit - Promoting workplace basic skills through 'Skills for Life'. (Day One) - Christine Mills, Learning and Development Advisor, BAA Heathrow Airport - An employer focus on workplace basic skills: The Key Skills Development Programme at Heathrow Airport (Day One) - Professor John Burgoyne Professor of Management Learning, Lancaster University Management School - A 'Learning Organisation' perspective on workplace literacy and numeracy programmes. (Day Two) - TUC Learning Services - Taking the Threat out of Assessment: The TUC and Workplace Basic Skills (Day Two) Please download a copy of the invitation from our website http://www.lancs.ac.uk/wbsnet Otherwise contact Vijayanti Chauhan at the Network, tel: 01524 593405/ email: v.chauhan@lancaster.ac.uk. The closing date for registration has now been extended to 28th October 2002. For information on other workplace basic skills network events and professional development activity, see our website or email Sally Lewis, Membership/Marketing Assistant on sally.lewis@lancaster.ac.uk, to receive a monthly copy of our Email update which includes links to items and sites of interest to workplace basic skills providers as well as diary dates. Fiona Frank Director Workplace Basic Skills Network CSET Lancaster University Lancaster LA1 4YL f.frank@lancaster.ac.uk 01524 593405 fax 01524 844788
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