Post event round up - a round up of our conference at Magna with links to the posters on display. Click here to view the round up.
Help and support for those affected by redundancy and unemployment - ECIF web pages now live.
To view the pages, click here.
General news
Further education - Training providers and industry must join forces to move towards Ambition 2020(fenews.co.uk, 19 November 2009)
Lifelong Learning UK, the sector skills council for post-compulsory education, believes that a joint effort from government, industry and training providers is crucial in improving and updating FE.
Apprenticeships - Apprenticeship budgets face cuts (BBC, 17 November 2009)
Apprenticeship and college budgets face public spending cuts, as the government publishes its skills strategy.
Educuation - From QCA to QCDA (QCDA, 25 November 2009)
Yesterday marked a significant milestone in the transformation from QCA to QCDA.
Skills - Workplace literacy schemes are too short to improve skills (ICG, 27 November 2009)
These are the findings of the UK's first study of basic skills learning in the workplace, funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC).
Skills - 40 million to lift long-term jobless back into work (Department for Communities and Local Government, 16 November 2009)
Mr Denham is extending the Government's support to communities during the economic downturn; building on a 3bn poundinvestment that's improved the Jobcentre Plus service; the guaranteed a job or training to all long-term unemployed young people.
Skills - 1.7m asked to improve work skills (BBC, 11 November 2009)
Three quarters of England's population should go to university or do an advanced apprenticeship by the age of 30, the government says.
Sectors: Health and Social Care - High dropout rates threaten plans for degree-only nursing (The Times, 18 November 2009)
Plans to make nursing a degree-only profession could be thwarted by the high number of students who drop out before finishing training, the latest figures suggest.
Sectors: Health and Social Care - Editor-At-Large: Nurses are not heroines. They are professionals(The independent, 15 November 2009)
There's been plenty of hand-wringing over the news that from 2013 all new nurses will have to spend three years studying for a degree to qualify.
Lifelong Learning UK conference
Lifelong Learning UK conference - The Power of Lifelong Learning: Innovation During a Recession
8 December 2009, Kings Place, London.
