Learning & skills initiatives
Learning initiatives
For many people work is a good place to learn both in formal learning programmes and through working processes and a culture that encourages informal learning from colleagues. For others work could be a good place to learn but it would need a change in culture and opportunity.
Union learning representatives can work with employers to create and extend opportunities. For vocational training through National Vocational Qualifications and other recognised qualifications and through modern apprenticeships attracting young workers.
They can also make sure there are opportunities for development too - employee development schemes where people can choose their own learning, workplace learning centres offering a choice of provision, and basic skills assessment to make sure everyone has the tools to benefit from study.
Unions will want to make agreements with employers or extend existing ones to make sure initiatives are embedded in the organisation. Investors in People provides a framework which supports learning and development of the workforce.
26 June 2009
Campaign for Learning - Learning at Work News
The latest news and resources from Campaign for Learning. Free downloadable guide on 'Leading on Learning'; IIPUK and Skills for Life Best Event Awards; Government's new Learning Revolution Transformation Fund; Investors in People and Skills for the Public Sector 09 conference.
12 June 2009
Minimum wage will help apprentices complete their training, says TUC
Responding to the announcement today (Friday) by Business Minister Pat McFadden that the Low Pay Commission has been asked to consider a national minimum wage for apprentices, TUC General Secretary Brendan Barber said: ...
12 June 2009
My Story launching autumn 2009
My Story, launching on BBC One and BBC Learning joint initiative, aims to get the whole nation reading and writing. The campaign offers adults the chance to share their own real-life stories online with some of the best stories going on to be broadcast on BBC One in the summer of 2010. The winners will also see their stories published as paper-back books.
10 June 2009
Growing more than just Gardens at BBC Gardener's World Live
The horticultural heaven that is known as BBC Gardener's World Live will not only provide inspiring ideas for growing gardens, but also enable a group of talented youngsters to nurture and grow their current gardening skills to a world class level.
8 June 2009
Reading at work: changing lives
Trade unions and public library services can share innovative approaches to encouraging reading in the workplace through a new Reading Agency publication, which outlines how it can be a powerful force for social change.
'Getting Reading to Work: unions, libraries and the Six Book Challenge' tells six inspirational stories of how union learning representatives in Yorkshire and the Humber have worked with libraries to use the Six Book Challenge, an incentive scheme for adults who are improving their literacy skills and just getting into reading for enjoyment.
4 June 2009
Joan Ryan meets Warburtons staff using their loaves at new learning centre
Local MP Joan Ryan will today (Thursday 4th June) attend the opening of a learning centre at Warburtons, along with Executive Director Brett Warburton, Joe Marino, General Secretary of the Bakers, Food and Allied Workers Union (BFAWU) and co-host of TalkSPORT, Ronnie Irani. Supported by unionlearn, the TUC's learning and skills organisation, the BFAWU and Warburtons have established a learning centre so that staff can improve their skills through taking courses. Staff will be able to brush up on their literacy and numeracy, as well as IT skills thanks to the excellent cooperation between the BFAWU and Warburtons. The centre will be officially opened at 3.30pm after a tour of the bakery and learning centre.
27 May 2009
Birmingham MP Sion Simon launches skills boost at Midland's printer
West Midlands workers at Worcestershire printers, Polestar Varnicoat, are about to benefit from a new programme to improve their skills – funded by the Regional Development Agency, Advantage West Midlands – the scheme will be launched Today (Wednesday 27 May) by Birmingham MP and higher Education Minister, Sion Simon.
Midlands
21 May 2009
Asset Skills - Women and Work programme
Asset Skills is running the Women and Work programme in the cleaning industry. Whether women wish to add new skills to their CVs or have ambitions to move into management, the Women and Work programme can give them a helping hand on to the first rung of the ladder.
20 May 2009
Women and Work - Skills for Justice
Skills for Justice has secured over half a million pounds of funding to offer a range of training initiatives to women working or volunteering in the Justice sector in England.
These initiatives are designed promote the development of soft skills, such as increased confidence, assertiveness, work-life balance, negotiation, delegation and increasing personal impact.
19 May 2009
Foundation Degrees: the basis for success (Event)
Trade union-supported fds will provide the flexibility and support that will overcome barriers to HE learning, build on trade unions' existing work in higher level learning and will benefit employees, employers, trade unions, and the wider economy.
The project will be organising a workshop at the unionlearn national conference on 11th June and a promotional event on 6th July, producing a practical guide/toolkit for ULRs on negotiating HE with employers and seeking employers and their respective unions to participate.
Southern and Eastern
