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Schools Offering Adult Learning To Access Government £30 Million Digital Fund

Monday, 1 February 2010

Schools who provide adult learning to parents will be eligible for the £30 million funding the Government has pledged to get one million digitally and socially excluded people online by the end of 2012.

Will the new Independent Safeguarding Authority effect Community Learning?

Thursday, 7 January 2010

The Independent Safeguarding Authority (ISA) has been created to help prevent unsuitable people from working with children and vulnerable adults. The ISA will be working in partnership with the Criminal Records Bureau (CRB) and other delivery partners.

Berkshire Digital Learning Champions go Ning

Monday, 9 November 2009

Charlotte Napier, the Berkshire Digital Learning Champions Project Co-ordinator is asking all those who want to be involved with the project to join the BDLCⁱ Ning at http://berksdlc.ning.com (though corporate users may want to use the mirror web address www.berksdlc.org.uk so their firewall doesn't object) as a starter method to working collaboratively and being able to share ideas and discuss

Transformation Fund – Recruiting Digital Learning Champions

Thursday, 8 October 2009

We are looking for some special people to help us work with communities throughout Berkshire and introduce people to digital technology for the first time. We have been awarded a grant from the Department of Business Innovation and Skills Transformation Fund.
Come and join us to deliver the Learning Revolution in Berkshire.

BNLCP to Transform Berkshire

Thursday, 24 September 2009

The final list of successful bids to the Transformation Fund was announced today and the BNLCP proposal was amongst them. See full details of the proposal and the full list of successful projects see www.bnlcp.org.uk/project/transformation-fund-bid

Also successful was the West Berkshire Council Arts and Leisure Development Team and Creative Junction from Slough.

Community Learning Champions Support Programme

Thursday, 24 September 2009

NIACE, the WEA, unionlearn and Martin Yarnit Associates were successful in winning the tender to manage the Community Learning Champions Support Programme.

SEED PROJECT

Monday, 14 September 2009

Chichester College is running an exciting new SEEDA project in the Southeast called SEED offering FREE 1-to-1 Coaching support for customers thinking of exploring self-employment to help them identify and overcome their barriers in the transition to self employment.

Support will include -

Learning Revolution Festival

Monday, 14 September 2009

In October the BIS are launching the Learning Revolution Festival to celebrate the wide range of informal adult learning on offer and raise awareness of the many positive benefits it brings to individuals, organisations and communities. Throughout the month, hundreds of events will give people a chance to celebrate what they enjoy and try something new.

Pass IT on

Monday, 14 September 2009

UK online centres launched Pass IT on as a way of helping people who are already online to convince their loved ones to get online too.

New Approach to ESOL

Tuesday, 25 August 2009

The government are spending around £300m a year investing in English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) provision. The report published last May by DIUS is available to download here.