All Learning, Skills and Employment

Spring Online – Grants of £100 available for taster events

Spring Online is a campaign which helps thousands of people learn about and use computers, the internet and other modern technology.

This year (22-26 April 2013) the campaign is being delivered in association with Carphone Warehouse.

More than 2,000 free digital taster events are held across the UK each year for Spring Online. The events take place in a wide variety of venues and are run by volunteers: individuals and organisations that are as passionate about digital technology as we are and keen to make a difference in their communities.

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Sector News

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Learning, Skills and Employment

Wisdom Councils and 'community voice'

If you've chatted with Walt over the last few months, or been involved in one of LSEN's discussions around community learning, you might have heard Walt talk about Wisdom Councils. Wisdom Councils are an approach to community engagement and eliciting 'community voice', which we in LSEN have been excited about for some time, and which we can see has real potential for organisational and community development and learning.

Shared Topic Areas:

Learning, Skills and Employment

Work Programme is performing well below expected targets

When the Work Programme was first introduced as part of the new Welfare to Work agenda the LSEN organised a number of meetings, seminars and events to inform voluntary organisations about the opportunities and risks of getting involved in the Programme as a sub-contractor.

It became clear, early on in these discussions, that the Programme did not recognise the difficulties many people at a distance from the labour market would find in re-engaging in sustained employment.

Shared Topic Areas:

People/communities experiencing racial inequalities

Commissioning

Equalities

Learning, Skills and Employment

Mental Health

Physical Disability

Young People

LSEN holding a meeting for organisations interested in bidding for the new ESOL Fund

The Department for Communities and Local Government recently launched a competition to discover and support organisations that can deliver community-based English language programmes in the following identified areas of the North West

Bradford, Kirklees, Blackburn with Darwen, Hyndburn, Oldham, Manchester, Rochdale, Pendle

This competition is open to all organisations and further information can be found at:

Shared Topic Areas:

People/communities experiencing racial inequalities

Learning, Skills and Employment

Volunteering

Planning for this years Adult Learners Week celebrations in Manchester

The Learning Skills and Employment Network (LSEN) will once again be co-ordinating Adult Learners Week activities in Manchester, as well as supporting the North West Consortium and Steering Group and they need your help with this.

LSEN see Adult Learners Week activities as part of their broader Community Learning Strategy and consequently are pulling together a Manchester based Steering Group to help plan out this year’s programme

If your organisation has something to offer Adult Learners Week this year – LSEN need to know

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Sector News

Shared Topic Areas:

Community Engagement

Learning, Skills and Employment

Consultation to establish a Guild for the Learning and Skills Sector

The FE Guild project has been set up to undertake a detailed study, between November 2012 and April 2013, into the concept of establishing an FE Guild.
The project is aimed at enhancing and developing the professionalism of the Further Education workforce and a vital element of the project is the widest possible consultation with the diverse FE sector.

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Sector News

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Community Engagement

Learning, Skills and Employment

Community Learning in Manchester

This week, LSEN hosted a meeting about Community Learning in Manchester. It was the third such meeting, and took place in the impressive and inspiring surroundings of Gorton Monastery. Over 30 people attended from a wide variety of sectors and organisations around Manchester.

Shared Topic Areas:

Learning, Skills and Employment

BME women’s social enterprise learning group

Routes to Solidarity will shortly be running a small project on BME women and social enterprise. Routes to Solidarity will bring together a small number of BME women who are developing social enterprises and would like to get support in this work.

The idea is to host regular (maybe monthly) group sessions, each one focusing on a specific aspect of developing a social enterprise (e.g. market research, legal issues etc).

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Sector News

Shared Topic Areas:

People/communities experiencing racial inequalities

Learning, Skills and Employment

'The Art of Science'- International Women's Day 2013

3 March, 2013 - 13:20 to 17:15

The Muslim and Jewish Forum Greater Manchester will be hosting it's 5th annual arts event in celebration of International Women's Day 2013 at The Manchester Multifaith Centre. This year's event is bigger than ever with more workshops planned over two weekends! There will be drama, art, dance and creative writing workshops as well as kosher and Asian refreshments!

Shared Topic Areas:

People/communities experiencing racial inequalities

Capacity Building

Equalities

Faith

Learning, Skills and Employment

Open Badges : a future for informal learning?

In LSEN, we're quite excited at the moment about Open Badges as a means of promoting and strengthening informal and learner-led learning.

Open Badges are a way of accrediting learning, skills and achievements - both big and small. They also allow accreditation to be granted outside of traditional institutional pathways. Virtually any organisation or individual can issue a badge, about virtually anything.

Shared Topic Areas:

Learning, Skills and Employment

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