news queen anniversary prizes

2010-02-19T19:17:03Z

Lord Puttnam and Queen Elizabeth II 'The Queen's Anniversary Prizes For Higher And Further Education' event held at Buckingham Palace. London, England - 19.02.10

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A Brief Look at Adult Learning

2010-02-25T14:08:28Z

In this day and age, more and more adults who have been part of the workforce all their lives are considering adult learning as a potentially valuable tool to polish their existing skills or learn new ones that will help place them ahead of the competition when it comes to the job market.<br><br>Adult learning can help when it comes to earning a much desired promotion or helping an individual to qualify for a lateral move within their existing profession that will ...

Students get taste of fame, stateÕs history

2010-02-26T23:47:55Z

<div><p> Southern Nevada Water Authority general manager Pat Mulroy was there, along with Steve Wynn and Howard Hughes. Multiple incarnations of Detroit suburb has pleaded no contest to threatening to burn his English teacher as a witch and been sentenced to time served in jail.</p><p>Ferndale District Judge RON THOMPSON | Times (Brooksville, 2/3/09) Harry Wilson is the chief GED examiner for the Adult Education program at Nature Coast Technical High School in Hernando County

Dropout proposal not needed

2010-03-02T18:39:23Z

<div id="subtitle">Educational programs for high school dropouts should remain with school districts</div><div><p> School districts all over the state, through adult education programs, offer youths who have dropped out the opportunity to sign up for classes and earn a diploma.</p><p>For years the classes have had a reputation for being cost-effective and successful. Last year, for example, 2,000 youths who had p...

Up for review: Who’s giving dropouts their second chance

2010-03-02T18:41:37Z

<div id="subtitle">Lawmaker wants responsibility for adult ed shifted to colleges</div><div><p> State Sen. Barbara Cegavske wants to move funding of adult education from local school districts to the states higher education system, arguing that doing so would help steer students away from the high school environment where theyve already failed.</p><p>If theyre dropping out of high school, theres a reason, the

College students leave economy ?28bn better off

2010-03-01T21:32:18Z

<div><p>The millions of students who have been through the nation's colleges since 1993 collectively left the economy ?28 billion richer last year.</p><p>For every pound invested by government in colleges, the taxpayer sees a return on investment of ?1.70, according to an economic analysis commissioned for Colleges Week to measure further education's impact.</p><p>The combined socio-economic benefits and savings...

Winners and losers as training takes off

2010-03-01T22:17:23Z

<div><p>Ofsted has done its health check. It has looked at the government's flagship policy for improving the nation's skills in the hope of boosting its prosperity in a changing economic world order.</p><p>The verdict is broadly encouraging: Train to Gain does raise people's game at work and employers believe that their businesses benefit overall. "It's encouraging that Train to Gain is addressing the skills shortage, while also helping em...

Building programme for colleges is 'a success'

2010-03-02T04:56:25Z

<div><p>A massive nationwide programme to rebuild colleges is going well after seven years although the funding of some of the earliest projects was hit and miss, according to the Parliamentary spending watchdog.</p><p>For its first three years public money tended to go to colleges able to bear most of the costs with the result that some which had the greatest need of new building were passed over, says the

Education potential of older people 'untapped'

2010-02-27T22:32:12Z

<div><p>The nation needs to invest much more in the ability of older people to make best use of their brains, according to <a href="http://www.foresight.gov.uk/OurWork/ActiveProjects/Mental%20Capital/Welcome.asp">a new report from a government thinktank</a>.</p><p>Foresight, the government unit charged with thinking strategically for the future, said it was vital to exploit the "mental capital" of mature adults. ...

Forces gather against Labour on adult learning

2010-02-27T23:02:43Z

<div><p>A tirade was not on the cards. John Denham is too civilised and practised a politician to display annoyance about the forces gathering against the government's adult education policies. But the admiration for the Campaigning Alliance for Lifelong Learning (Call) that is uttered by the innovation, universities and skills secretary is totally unexpected.</p><p>Whether or not there ...

Adult education campaigners lose 25% of assets

2010-02-28T01:05:07Z

<div><p>The country's leading campaigning group for lifelong learning has lost a quarter of its assets with the banking collapse in Iceland.</p><p>Niace, the National Institute of Adult Continuing Education, had &amp;#163;1.9m invested on a six-month fixed-term ...

Save our Greek and German

2010-02-28T02:14:22Z

<div><p>The glint in the eye, the spring in the step and the stream of email progress reports to the media all point to one thing: Paul Mackney has found a cause to get his teeth into.</p><p>The former general secretary of the lecturers' union Natfhe, whose career was cut short by ill health, is practically fizzing about his new project. "It's quite exciting," he says. "I don't remembe...

Pensioners demand return of cheap evening classes

2010-02-28T03:55:06Z

<div><p>Buoyed up by a huge response from angry pensioners to cuts in adult education, campaigners today warned ministers not try to gloss over the recent loss of 1.5 million publicly funded places.</p><p>It must restore those places by 2010 if it is serious about building an informal adult learning system for the 21st century, said the newly-formed Campaigning Alliance for Lifelong Learning (Call).</p><p>Call wa...

What is the meaning of lifelong learning?

2010-02-28T16:34:38Z

<div><p>The auguries for England's devastated adult education service are grim. Few have any hope that the government's response to its consultation on informal adult learning will include plans for restoring the 1.5m evening class places that were lost over two years as a direct result of Labour policies. </p><p>The

What else can a teaching assistant do?

2010-02-28T18:20:04Z

<div><p><em class="bold">1.</em> Anne's certificate could help towards a career in lifelong learning in the charitable sector. As a literacy learning support tutor, working alongside a qualified full-time tutor for the Workers' Educational Association, she would earn &amp;pound;22 an hour. The charity would pay her to complete a City &amp; Guilds teaching qualification - preparing to teach in the lifelong learning sector. Sh...

Efficient erosion of expertise

2010-02-28T18:46:03Z

<div><p>Industrial disputes are hardly welcome news but the authors of a new report on the changing status of further education lecturers could be forgiven some grim satisfaction over battles brewing at two colleges.</p><p>The University and College Union is bracing itself for a scrap at Virgin Trains for cancelling the 3.50pm from Coventry. I never made it to the crucial House of Commons reception at which the big idea was unveiled.</p><p>I'd been warned by the

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