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Helping learners progress
with their maths

Nottinghamshire Training Network, 5th March, 10.00 – 15.00

A one day training session for everyone who teaches and supports
Maths and Numeracy in the Learning and Skills sector

The session:

explores teaching and learning strategies which maximise learner achievement

considers skills critical to progression

develops interactive and collaborative teaching and learning approaches.

The focus is on practical teaching and learning approaches relevant across a range of programmes - Skills for Life Numeracy, Functional Maths and Embedded Numeracy.
Content covers:

What we mean by progress in numeracy and maths

Teaching and learning approaches effective in supporting learners to progress

The role of formative assessment

Maths-related language to support learner progress

Turning difficulties into opportunities

Teaching and learning resources to support learner progress

The audience:
Anyone who teaches or supports Maths and Numeracy in the adult learning sector, including the Voluntary Sector, Adult Community Learning, Workbased Learning , FE and Offender Learning.

To benefit fully from the session you need to have some experience of teaching or supporting Maths and Numeracy.  A working knowledge of the numeracy curriculum and standards would be useful.

To book a place:
Email Elaine Scott, SfLSP Lead Development Adviser, East Midlands Region, at  
elaine.scott@edu-co.co.uk .

Click here for overview of the day

Invitation to Masterclass on Strategy

Expert 1-day Masterclass – Managing Strategically in Turbulent Times


Wednesday 10 March 2010 9.00am for 9.30am to 5pm at The University of Leicester Cost £175 per delegate (includes refreshments and course materials)

Do you want to be in a stronger position to create more value for your own organisation; provide better value for money for your customers; and lift business performance to a higher and sustainable level? Then this one-day masterclass is for you.

Come and get some expert training on strategic management plus an opportunity to look at your own approach and find how you can enhance it. The masterclass will include practical and group activities with sessions on the following:

* Thinking strategically
* Evaluating the external environment
* Evaluating an organisation’s capabilities
* Strategy formulation
* Strategy and performance
To book your place now click here

Peter Jackson, Professor of Economics and Strategy at the University of Leicester will lead the workshop. Peter has carried out extensive research on the subject of Strategy and has worked with many organisations wanting to improve their performance through strategic thinking.

The Leading Edge
University of Leicester
T: 0116 252 5783 E: leadingedge@le.ac.uk

W: www.le.ac.uk/leadingedge

NNC February Update

Hello Colleagues,

 Please see attached three February business opportunities which I would like to draw to your attention;  

 ·         Economic Challenge Investment Fund;   

The project will be winding up shortly as the available funding gets winds up. We have attached an information sheet which details the programmes still available with the funding.  Its expected these will be the last programmes available so if you wish to take advantage of the short, high impact programmes with significantly reduced fees book now – first come first served.  Further info available from Lisa Williams lwilliams@nnc.ac.uk

 ·         Claim £2500 For Employing a 16-17 Year Old Apprentice;

This scheme reached the national media last week so we have attached the following information sheets for all our clients who may be interested in this scheme.  The scheme is aimed at small and mediums sized employers and is only available until the end of March 2010 - so if you require further information please call Michelle Nicholson or Lyn Furniss on 019090 504780 / 504783 or e-mail apprenticeships@nnc.ac.uk as soon as possible. 

 ·         Networking Opportunity with the Bank of England;

Also please be aware of an joint networking event due to take place on the 10th March on behalf of the North Notts Business Networks. The event to be held at the Well in Retford featuring Chris Brown from the Bank of England and Dan Terry of Blue Sky seminars, will also be an opportunity to network with 100+ business representatives from our region.  For booking or further information
click here

 All these offers have been provided to help support your business growth, but all are limited so don’t miss out.  However they are not exclusive to existing customers so if you have friends or colleagues who may wish to take advantage of these offers please feel free to forward or let me know.

 As normal if there is anything else I can help you with please be sure to let me know – if you don’t ask you don’t get!

 Kind Regards,

 Tim Gladman

Employer Engagement Manager

Countdown Issue 455

In this issue:

Larger contracts? Fewer providers? Would the provider infrastructure cope?

ALP publishes paper on youth pre-employment provision

E-learning Content
Creation (ECC) providers notified

LLUK Impact of Standards and Qualifications Survey 2010

Work Based Learning Providers and 14-19 Diploma Delivery Seminar

QCF Final Evaluation

Providers of the Future - Showcase Event

Click here to view

 

Policy Watch

Policy Watch this week takes a look at how the education debate is shaping up now that the New Year is into its stride; details below

After six weeks.pdf

Prepared by Steve Besley, Head of Policy, Edexcel.

 

EMDA Alert

In this issue:

£20m Urban Development Fund open for business

Countdown to 2010 innovation festival begins

Midlands declared low carbon economic area for advanced automotive engineering

Local company needs help to heat up sales!

Helping smaller firms win Government contracts

'Top-secret' experiment brings science to schools... on a lorry

£20m Urban Development Fund open for business

Planning approval for station interchange

£22m regeneration scheme starts

Backing Young Britain in the East Midlands

Outshine your competitors

Emerging markets: Too much potential to ignore

emda seeks to identify regional business challenges and opportunities

East Midlands STEM Partnership Forum Event - STEM from every angle

East Midlands Women in Business Conference 2010

iFestival

Go green!

Finding innovation funding and partners in the construction sector

Apply for the 2010 Lord Stafford Awards

Click here to view email alert

 

QUALIFICATIONS AND CREDIT FRAMEWORK
NEWS

Managing the transition to QCF – Conference

The LSC will be hosting a one day conference with the aim of supporting learning providers to manage the transition to the QCF as part of the implementation of the vocational qualification reform.

This is an opportunity for providers to be updated on latest QCF implementation developments and specifically to actively prepare for the delivery of QCF qualifications.

This event is primarily for publicly funded providers in England, but representatives from sector councils and awarding organisations will also find the day of interest. The keynote address will be given by David Cragg (Interim Chief Executive of the Skills Funding Agency) and the conference will feature QCF related workshops on:

       funding and performance

       identification of priority qualifications

       the new Adult Advancement Service

       the Personal Learning Record

The conference is free of charge and will be held at Chelsea Football Club, London on 10 March 2010, 10.00– 15.00.  

For more information and a booking form please email Jacqueline Hargis at jacqueline.hargis@lsc.gov.uk

Kind Regards

 Sharon Forton
Employer Services Director
Learning and Skills Council NAS East Midlands
1 Mallard Way
Pullman Business Park
Derby
DE24 8GX

T: 01332 868345

 

Connect issue 55

In this issue:

IPPR look at local level provision

LLUK Impact of Standards and Qualifications Survey 2010

The 4th National Welfare to Work Conference: A Watershed in Welfare

A Brave New World: Machinery of Government

Managing the Transition to QCF

VTCT Conference 2010

And much more

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National Training Awards - Spread the word!

Click here to view the latest ezine alert

 

FREE Upcoming Events

An East Midlands Networking Events: Speed Date with the Experts
EMCETT are happy to host this FREE event offering a unique networking opportunity, bringing together the key support programmes in our region. This is your chance to ask us questions, share your concerns and get information about resources to support your learners or your own CPD.

This event will be repeated three times across the East Midlands:
Friday 5th March - Tapton House Conference Centre, Chesterfield
Friday 12th March - Newark Beacon, Beacon Hill Office Park
Friday 19th March - Holiday Inn, Corby, Northamptonshire.

Each event will run from: 9.30am to 1.00pm followed by a networking lunch until 2.00pm

Places are still available - please circulate to your colleagues and around your networks.  We are particularly keen to reach colleagues in Lincolnshire and Northamptonshire to fill up places at our Newark and Corby events.

 

Come and talk to us about:
- what is happening with regard to Functional Skills and Skills for Life.
- what your local IfL Connections Advisor can do for you.
- why you should join the Subject Learning Coach programme.
- what the Qualification & Credit Framework will mean to you.

- how to access or deliver initial teacher training (including SfL) as blended learning.


Representatives from the following organisations will be present at one or all of the events:
* Skills for Life Support Programme
* Functional Skills Support Programme
* EMCETT
* Subject Learning Coach Programme
* Foundation Learning Support Programme
* QCF Readiness Support Programme

* JISC

* NIACE

* LLUK

* BKSB


This event will be of interest to anyone engaged in teaching and learning across the adult learning sector including the Voluntary Sector, Adult Community Learning, Workbased Learning , FE and Offender Learning.
Further information and a Booking Form are attached.

 Angelina Jenkins

SfL CPD Management Information Coordinator

East Midlands Centre for Excellence in Teacher Training (emCETT)

 T:  01629 536486

 

 Learning From Champions Event

Dear Champion

 By now you will be aware of a new series of five one day events entitled ‘Learning from Champions’. These events are for providers and practitioners who are delivering 16+ training and education under direct contacts with the LSC; especially those who were unable to attend the 3 day Champions training events. 

 Who should attend?  Practitioners who would like to learn more about implementing QCF and Foundation Learning can do so directly from the Champions, as we all move towards full implantation in September 2010.

 The events will provide important networking opportunities for practitioners and cover the latest policy updates as well as showcasing the LSIS resources such as the new interactive action planner and My Developments interactive online learning activities.  Foundation Learning and QCF Champions will be leading workshops, alongside workshops that share the learning from Action Research Projects.

 Please encourage your colleagues to follow the links below to register for a place on these very useful
events.
   for QCF

for Foundation Learning

 

Kind Regards

 Clare Killen

National Programme Manager

LSIS QCF Readiness Provider Support Programme

LSIS Foundation Learning Support Programme

 

LSC - The Learner Panel

This content concerns The Learner Panel, a new online panel being set up by The Learning and Skills Council for learners to give their views on education issues. As this is a new panel, we need your help to publicise it and encourage your students to join.

The Learner Panel is a unique online research panel for those aged 14 and above who are either in compulsory learning or Further Education (including work-based learning). Fully funded by the Learning and Skills Council (LSC), it will provide a cost effective means of obtaining really accurate and representative research data for everyone in the sector interested in understanding the learner voice. The LSC has asked Opinionpanel, an independent specialist market research agency to build and manage The Learner Panel.

We need you to help us by inviting your pupils and students to join.

What's in it for the learners?

They will take part in interesting and sector-relevant surveys and earn shopping vouchers (normally £1 - £2 sent in the post after each survey), plus we will send the first 20 students who join up from your institution a £4 'thank you' bonus.

What's in it for you, as a learning provider?

The Learner Panel will be a resource for the whole sector. It will help produce accurate national data on a wide range of issues including learner satisfaction, course development and assessing the regional impacts of new policies. Institutions (as well as other stakeholders) will find the results invaluable. But please note, sample sizes will not be large enough to produce results giving any granularity at the level of the individual learning provider. The Learner Panel will not form the basis of any league tables.

What's next?

We need you to tell your students about the offer either on your website front page, on your newsfeed, in your next newsletter, on your intranet or through any other resources you have available to you. We have provided you with:

The Learner Panel logo (see attachment)

Copy you can use to tell your students about The Learner Panel (see below)

Links for the first 20 students who sign up from your college to use in order to receive a bonus of £4 just for signing up (see below)

The Learner Panel would be impossible without your assistance so many thanks in advance for your help in making The Learner Panel a great success!

Please feel free to contact us if you have any questions. Alternatively, more information is available at www.learnerpanel.co.uk and in the FAQs document attached to this email.

Kind regards,

Hannah Paton
Project Manger of The Learner Panel

LSC Contact: Rodrigo Correa (rodrigo.correa@LSC.gov.uk)

 

NEW - LSIS launch new PRD Community! Action required

Launch of the new on-line PRD Community portal

The Support for Excellence programme team is pleased to announce the launch of the on-line PRD Community portal within the new SfE website on the Excellence Gateway.  In order to get the most out of this new communications platform, you will need to register by using the link:

 The PRD Community portal holds information on every organisation and PRD group currently involved in SfE peer review and development activity and allows users to

     Filter groups and organisations by sector and region

·    Identify other groups involved in activities in which you have an interest (Once groups have uploaded this information)

·    Contact (and be contacted by) other groups and providers over a secure server

·     Ask questions and share experiences via an interactive notice board

·     Apply to join additional PRD groups and networks, set up new groups and manage group details

 As well as full functionality of the PRD Community portal, registration will also allow you to access additional resources on the Excellence Gateway; to collaborate with colleagues, share ideas and effective practice in the EG workrooms and forums and to to save your searches and bookmark useful materials. This functionality is not available to non-registered users.

 In future, the SfE programme team will use the PRD Community portal to alert members to, the availability of new funding sources, new PRD resources posted on the SfE web site, invitations to take part in new research, forthcoming events and updates to the Self-Assessment and Improvement Planning User Guide.  So don’t miss out.

 Action required:

 Please register now

Inputting as much detail about your organisation and the PRD activities with which they are engaged as possible, as well as opting to receive email messages directly to your account will maximize your user experience. For further guidance please refer to the ‘top tips’.

 When using the PRD community portal in the future please log onto the Excellence Gateway, using your user name and password, and follow the link to the PRD Community.

 We look forward to welcoming you as a full member of the PRD Community.

 Kind regards,

 The Support for Excellence Programme Team

Web alerts 3rd March 2010

 

East Midlands Foundation Learning Network - 11th March 2010 -Nottingham

Dear Colleagues,

I am pleased to invite you to the 2nd EM Foundation Learning Network Event. 

Please find attached a copy of the programme for the session - thank you for your feedback from the last meeting. I hope you find that your thoughts have fed through into this meeting.

As you will see from the programme the focus and approach to this session is broader than the previous meeting (hence the wider invite) Although the session provides opportunities to discuss issues related to implementation planning, the emphais is clearly around supporting implementation and is designed to develop the understanding of those attending and also feed into ongoing workforce development.

Up to 4 places are available to each Local Authority. This can include Local Authority colleagues with direct responsibility for Foundation Learning and/or those who are developing their awareness and understanding. The session will have particular value for practitioners within organisations who are beginning to (or already) implementing Foundation Learning.

I am acutely aware of the 'business' of the calendar over the coming weeks and realise the challenges this presents. I thank you in advance for your flexibility in supporting this central area of reform.

Please refer to the attached programme for further details of the joining instructions and the outcomes/approach to the session.

Feel freee to contact me with any further queries. I look forward to hearing from you

Best wishes

Amanda Clayson
East Midlands Foundation Learning Contact

 

Countdown Issue 456

In this issue:

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Policy Watch

LSIS Policy Update 32

This update runs from 10 February – 23 February 2009.  In this edition you will find the latest sector relevant policy news, including:

 

Brief Guide: Unleashing Aspiration, the government response to the final report of the Panel on Fair Access to the Professions. 

This brief guide summarises the government response to Unleashing Aspiration: The Final Report of the Panel on Fair Access to the Professions.  It highlights the government’s response to the recommendations with particular relevance to the learning and skills sector, indicating a high level of recognition of the very significant role of this sector in addressing social mobility.

 

Policy Watch offers its summary of what’s been going on in the world of education over the last few weeks

Policy Tracker for Feb 2010.pdf

Prepared by Steve Besley, Head of Policy, Edexcel.

 

Sector Connect

In this issue:

To read issue click here

 

Larger contracts, fewer providers? Would the provider infrastructure cope?

....“The new regime (Skills Funding Agency) will very quickly start to look at ways of reducing the numbers of contracts which have to be, in their view, expensively serviced and managed. This will undoubtedly lead to the development of plans to increase the minimum contract values, and it is vital that providers, large and small, start planning proactively to deal with such a scenario"....

 ...."Providers have got to come together very quickly to think through how they will manage this change agenda to ensure that everyone with a future contribution to make is in the right place at the right time. Providers must grasp this nettle and be given a reasonable time (it will never be enough time) to redesign the delivery infrastructure”.....

Graham Hoyle, Chief Executive, ALP

Countdown #455

Dear Member,

 Are you ready and able to address and respond effectively to the important changes soon to affect our sector?

 To help us all manage this change, ALP will be holding a series of seminars/workshops in various locations across the country. The event will be highly participative and will last approximately 3 hours.

 We need to get this right and avoid the sector being forced into an unworkable scenario designed by policy makers and funding agencies.

 Such is the critical importance of this issue, it is vital that we optimize availability and accessibility for you. We want to make sure that the time and location is right and to this end we need your feedback. Once we have this we can then build the programme to optimum effect.

 Please take JUST TWO MINUTES to answer by click on link to online survey  

 Please respond by no later than Wednesday 3rd March.

 

Economic Wellbeing Sub Partnership - Action

Dear all,

 At the last Economic Wellbeing meeting the group received an update on the Machinery of Government (referred to as MOG) and the plans for Nottinghamshire. The group requested a copy of the organisation chart for Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Futures please find this attached.

 Kind regards, 
Julia Flint
Partnership Adviser

News from Proskills

In this issue:

Click here to view

 

Providers of the Future

Showcase Event - 22 April 2010 - Think Tank Birmingham science museum

 “Equipping our current and future generations with the necessary skills to compete in a digital world is crucial to our future”

Stephen Crowne – Chief Executive, Becta

Learning and Technology World Forum 2010, London

  ALP is hosting a one day conference to share with you, the experiences of successful training providers who have transformed their business operations through the effective use of technology at the Think Tank Birmingham Science Museum.

 The keynote speaker, John Davitt, writer, broadcaster and a digital toolmaker is passionate about using innovative technology to improve the learning experience. He will share with delegates his inspirational and practical approach to using technology to fit learning needs.

  The event is designed to enable training providers to keep up with the technological changes taking place across the Employability, Apprenticeships and the Train to Gain sectors and as a delegate you will experience first-hand, a series of ‘speed dating’ Learning Innovation Grant (LIG) project demonstrations illustrating how the effective use of technology is providing efficiency savings, raising aspiration and is helping to improve learner achievement and satisfaction rates.

 There will also be an opportunity to learn more about the wide range of free support and funding that will be available in the coming year to support your business, which will enable you to continue to reap the reward of using technology and elearning in work based learning.

 I look forward to seeing you at the showcase event.

 The Delegate fee is £65+Vat including conference material, lunch and refreshments

 Register today and find out more about the Providers of the Future - Showcase Event

Call 0117 986 5389 Email enquiries@learningproviders.org

 With regards

 Chris Swingler

Director of Business Development

 

Emda News

In this issue:

Click here to view

 

Countdown Issue 457

In this issue:

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Making it News

For more details go to the Route to Market website

 

The Contact Centre Gateway delivered by MTC in Newark on behalf of Phruit in November 2009 was a great success. 73 candidates were invited to the selection day, with 14 securing a place on the Contact Centre Gateway course. Having won a new contract, Phruit have employed 9 of the candidates. As a result of the success of the first Contact Centre Gateway with Phruit, a second gateway was run on 11th February to assist in the recruitment of a second contract Phruit have won, with the course starting on 22nd February. We will keep you updated!

 

Quality Care are currently building a new home in Sutton in Ashfield and will need up to 80 new care staff over the next year.

The 27th January saw MTC holding a selection day for the Health and Social Care Gateway they are currently running for Quality Care. The 5 week course started at the beginning of February, with participants working to obtain the Learning Disability Qualification as well as other certified units.


Anyone who missed on out this gateway will have another opportunity as MTC are running another gateway in March. The training provider is West Notts College and the training will be delivered at The Travellers Rest in Sutton.

 

Since the last newsletter MTC have been working with Care UK who were looking for 30 new homecare support workers in the Mansfield and Ashfield areas. By working in partnership with JobCentre Plus and West Notts College MTC are delivering a healthcare gateway in February-March. Following a selection day on the 9th February, training commenced on 24th February at West Notts College. Everyone who completes the training is guaranteed an interview with Care UK. 

 

MBA Polymers is opening a new multi million pound recycling plant in Worksop and they are working MTC in a pre-employment gateway for production workers. North Notts College have designed a manufacturing course to meet the employer’s needs and JCP selected suitable candidates for the training who attended a selection day on 16th February. The 4 week course started w/c 22nd February. The employer has guaranteed interviews to everyone who completes the course and has ring-fenced six jobs for suitable candidates.

For more details on these case studies go to the MTC website

 

Nottinghamshire has been successful in becoming one of eleven national pilots for the Fit for Work Service. This is a joint Department of Health and Department for Work and Pensions initiative, aimed at retaining people with health problems in work.

Working with both individuals and their employers, the pilot builds on existing successful services in Nottingham City and enables these to be offered in Mansfield and Ashfield. Referrals to the services will be from GP’s, employers and individuals themselves.

The Nottinghamshire Fit for Work Service consists of:

Commissioning of services is in process, with the pilot running through to March 2011.

If you would like to find out a bit more about Nottinghamshire's Fit for Work Service Pilot then sign up to receive the E-bulletin.To do so please send your contact details to: adminesb@gnpartnership.org.uk

 

Community Programme was launched on 9th February 2010. The programme will create 600 plus volunteering opportunities and give participants the skills and experience to help them complete more successfully in the job market.

To read the full press release go to the Nottingham City Council

 

The beginning of 2010 has been an eventful time already, with both the NCCESB Working and Skilled Convention and The Notts Loves Learning - Big Learning Weekend taking place with great success!

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Nottinghamshire: Working & Skilled Convention

Supporting Nottinghamshire businesses during the recession and helping people find work and boost their job skills were some of the key discussions that took place at Nottinghamshire: Working & Skilled Convention 2010 which took place at the Indian Community Centre Association on 13th January.

Despite the weather, the convention was attended by special guests, Jim Knight MP – the Minister of State for Employment and Welfare Reform, and James Clappison MP – the Shadow Minister for Work and Pensions along with over 150 representatives from many partner organisations from across the county (and further afield!).  

It was held by the Nottinghamshire: City & County Employment and Skills Board to discuss the development of a new strategy to tackle unemployment and job retention. As well as speeches and presentations, workshops also took place, some of which gave delegates an opportunity to contribute to the strategy.  

For more information about the Employment and Skills Board and to download a copy of the event report go to:

 www.nccesb.org.uk

 

.Nottinghamshire Loves Learning - the Big Learning Weekend!

 Aimed at inspiring adults all over the county to try something new, more than 200 free learning events took place over the Valentines Weekend across Nottinghamshire. There was a great turn out with many new venues hosting fun and imaginative learning experiences: From learning to steer a canal boat, creating crafty masterpieces or assessing a crime scene to having a go at pole dancing, cooking a three course meal or valuing antique treasures - there really was something for everyone!   

For videos and photographs from the weekend visit the Notts Loves Learning website at www.nottsloveslearning.com

 

DID YOU KNOW? 

Over 300 jobseekers in Nottingham have started their New Year on a positive note, having found employment with the help of Working Links (based at the Frontage on Queen Street). Since the start of the Flexible Routeways programme in July 2009, they have helped over 1000 people into work during one of the city's toughest economic times. To read the press release go to the MTC website

 

Central Skills can provide fully funded training and qualifications relevant to the warehousing, operations and logistics sector through their e2e in Fork Lift Truck, Warehousing and Distribution. To find out more download the flyer from the MTC website or contact Care Training on 0115 9599 544

Care Training East Midlands (CTEM) and Central Skills are also working with the Government and Jobcentre Plus as part of their commitment to support young people into work. They are running 2 programmes that are part of the Young Person's Guarantee: Routes into Work and Work Focused Training. To find out more visit CTEM's website


Get more out of the internet with Hallam Communications and grants from Leaders First. Hallam Communications is a leading provider of internet marketing training, offering a range of courses, including Search Engine Optimisation and using Google Analytics. Train to Gain offers grants to East Midlands companies  via their Leaders First Scheme.  Grants are available to business owners/senior managers in businesses employing at least 5 members of staff. For more information and details of how to apply for a grant go to the MTC website


Route to Market is a business support programme from the East Midlands Development Agency (emda) and forms part of emda's continued response to supporting businesses in the current economic climate and to help them prepare for the upturn.
Route to Market is designed to provide practical support in the key areas of:

    * Business strategy
    * Customer retention
    * Recruiting and developing your staff
    * Sales and Marketing
    * Managing finances.

A series of Route to Market workshops are being held around the region - see the Up and Coming section for details of any Nottingham dates.

 

Do you want to build digital media into your learning materials?

Using digital media in VLEs
21st April
Nottingham

Discover how to improve the design of presentation resources, know when and how digital media can be used to enhance learning materials and be able to successfully embed material into a Virtual Learning Environment (VLE).

Find out about:

- Using digital media for teaching and learning
- Designing better presentations using software such as PowerPoint
- Designing for interaction
- Making effective use of audio and video resources for teaching and learning
- Embedding media in your VLE or online environment
- Copyright and IPR issues

This event is offered for free as part of the JISC Advance Event Series (normal price is 150 pounds), and is delivered by JISC Digital Media on behalf of RSC East Midlands.

For more details and to book your place visit the RSC East Midlands website.


There are just 2 places remaining on the other JISC Digital Media event in the JISC Advance Event Series. 'Finding Free-to-use Images online' that takes place on 11th March in Leicester. More details


Other upcoming RSC East Midlands events

Learning in five years time: the governors' role
17th March, Nottingham

Generator: a tool for self-assessment
23rd March, Nottingham

e-Portfolios for personal development planning
27th April, Leicester

e-asy Assessment
17th May, Leicester

 

 

Introduction to Dyslexia
A free presentation for employers

Friday 19th March 2010
9.30am – 11.00am
At Sherwood House, 7 Gregory Boulevard
Nottingham, NG7 6LB.

This event is for EMPLOYERS ONLY - Please circulate the attached flyer to all your employers

For your information only:

The Dyslexia Association invites employers to visit us for a free introduction to dyslexia in the workplace. Dee Caunt our Business Development Manager will be presenting this month and will cover issues including,

  • What is dyslexia?
  • Why do employers need to know about dyslexia?
  • How does dyslexia affect employees in the workplace?
  • The Disability Discrimination Act.
  • Assistive Technology & Useful Gadgets.

As this is an ‘in house’ presentation we must limit spaces to two per company. For larger presentations please enquire via email to, anna.read@dyslexia.uk.net

Please notify us of your attendance by 12th March, including Company details, Names and Job Title by email to anna.read@dyslexia.uk.net or by calling
0115 924 6888 / 924 6880.

 

NNC February Update

Due to high levels of demand please see below a very short update on Economic Challenge Investment Fund (ECIF) and remaining availability on our funded programmes. 

 

  • All NEBSOH Diploma funded courses are now full and we are unable to take any more Diploma learners until the normal September intake 2010.  N.B. these programme book up fast - to reserve a place contact Clive Siddall (csiddall@nnc.ac.uk / 01909 5047100).

 

  • All ECIF enhanced CMI Management Development programmes are now 80% full so we can only take a few more candidates on the level 5 and level 7 certificate courses starting now and in March.  We are still able to offer ECIF funded programmes at your premises (subject to group size) and still claim the funding.

 

  • Lastly the IEMA Environmental Management Certificate is also almost full. We can now accept a further 3 candidates for the programme starting 5th March 2010.

As previously advised the ECIF fund ends in August 2010 so take advantage while its still available. If you have already completed an ECIF fund application form and now wish to access the fund please get in touch for a priority booking.

 For further information on any of the programmes please contact either Lisa Williams (01909 504765 / lwilliams@nnc.ac.uk) or Tim Gladman (01909 504719 / tgladman@nnc.ac.uk).

 

Regards,

Tim Gladman

Employer Engagement Manager