Higher Futures news digest
Week ending 19 December 2008
Welcome to the last Higher Futures news digest of 2008. The digest will return in 2009. Season's greetings for the festive period and a happy New Year from the Higher Futures team.
Higher Futures news
- News - David Lammy visits Higher Futures
David Lammy, Minister for Higher Education and Intellectual Property, visits Higher Futures Lifelong Learning Network. - Event - Social Care Careers and Progression Seminar (with Aimhigher South Yorkshire)
Thursday 5 February 2009, Skills for Business, Hillsborough Barracks, Sheffield
Providing information for teachers and IAG professionals on education and training routes into the social care sector. - E-card - Season's greetings from Higher Futures (PDF document)
- Publication - Bringing Higher Education within Reach: Sussex LLN e-book
A case study on Higher Futures' Control Technologies Foundation Degree appears in the Sussex LLN e-book (chapter 6, section 6.3, page 15 onwards).
Lifelong Learning Network news
- Event - LLN engineering workstrand meeting
Wednesday 14 January 2009, the University of Derby - Event - LLN workstrand event: Building a future in construction and engineering
Friday 30 January 2009, Rose Bowl cricket ground, Southampton
General news
- Apprenticeships - Employers and public sector to create 10,000 apprenticeship places (DIUS, 8 December 2008)
At least 10,000 apprenticeships will be created in spite of the contraction in the economy, as the bill which launched the National Apprenticeship Service was announced last week by John Denham and Ed Balls. - Higher education - Crisis blows £250m hole in university funding (Guardian, 12 December 2008)
The global economic downturn has wiped at least £250m from the leading British universities' endowment funds, a Guardian survey has revealed. - Raising aspirations - Close the aspiration gap to tackle UK poverty levels, says Byrne (Guardian, 15 December 2008)
Harnessing community power seen as key to public service reform. - Regional - Raising skills top priority - Regional Minister (Central Office of Information, 12 December 2008)
Yorkshire and the Humber Minister Rosie Winterton is urging college principals from across the region to play their part in helping to sustain the economy through tough times and to help people get new skills. - Sectors: early years - England 'lags behind in childcare' (The Press Association, 11 December 2008)
England is lagging behind other developed countries in making progress in early years education and childcare, according to a new report. - Sectors: engineering - Building blocks (Guardian, 9 December 2008)
Applications for engineering degrees are up - but don't celebrate just yet. - Sectors: sustainable communities - Time to consider investing time and skills in the community (Times, 12 December 2008)
Opinion piece: Angela McConville, founder and CEO of Vital Regeneration. - Skills - Jobless offered skills training (BBC, 17 December 2008)
Millions are to be spent helping people in England who face redundancy find new jobs or develop new skills. - Vocational education - Record number of adults gain vocational qualifications (DIUS, 18 December 2008)
A record number of adults gained vocational qualifications in the past academic year, according to new ONS figures published today. - Work-based learning - Lifelong Learning UK begins collection of workforce data (LLUK, 15 December 2008)
Lifelong Learning UK is about to commence the first annual collection of workforce data developed specifically for work-based learning and adult community learning providers.
Events
- Event - National sport and regeneration conference
Wednesday 11 February 2009, Lords cricket ground, London - Event - Ecobuild: sustainable design, construction and the built environment
Tuesday 3 to Thursday 5 March 2009, Earls Court London - Event - Listening to learners: Partnerships in action (PDF document)
Wednesday 22 April 2009, University of East London (Docklands Campus), London
Publications
- Newsletter - Edge (vocational learning) newsletter: December 2008
- Newsletter - 14-19 Delivery newsletter: 12 December 2008
- Newsletter - FACE (Forum for Access and Continuing Education) newsletter: December 2008
- Publication - Unfinished business in widening participation: the end of the beginning
- Publication - DIUS Capability Review (PDF document)
- Publication - Demand for Higher Education to 2029
- Publication - Employability skills examined
- Report - Fair Admissions to higher education: a review of the implementation of the Schwartz Report principles three years on
- Report - Manchester City Council: Reducing the number of NEETs
- Report - Post-16 Education: Learner Participation and Outcomes in England 2007/08