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- Review of IAG out now
- Posted: 15 August 2008
- The final report of the 2006 Cross Government Review of Information, Advice and Guidance Services for Adults in England is now available.
- New careers service report
- Posted: 1 August 2008
- Read the report of a recent expert practitioners' workshop about the new adult advancement and careers service.
- NAEGA meets DIUS again
- Posted: 22 July 2008
- NAEGA and DIUS met again to discuss how NAEGA might assist in the development of the new Adult Advancement and Careers Service in England.
- Measuring the impact of adult guidance - lessons from North East England
- Posted: 21 July 2008
- Get your copy of this new publication about evaluating the soft outcomes of the guidance process.
- Shaping the Future - Tees Valley annual IAG conference
- Posted: 21 July 2008
- Report on the final conference of nextstep Tees Valley.
- nextstep contracts
- Posted: 21 July 2008
- Latest news on the successful tenders for nextstep contracts.
- Adult Learning Grant one year on
- Posted: 21 July 2008
- The Adult Learning Grant (ALG) recently celebrated its first anniversary. Figures show it has been a great success.
- Time to train consultation
- Posted: 21 July 2008
- What do you think? DIUS invites views on proposals to give employees in England a right to a serious conversation with their employer about their skills development.
- Futuretrack report
- Posted: 21 July 2008
- Detailed invetigation into the career decision-making among 2006 applicants for UK full-time undergraduate and sub-degree courses.
- Lifelong Learning Networks
- West Yorkshire Lifelong Learning Network has provided an explanation of LLNs.
- Denham calls on employees to enter higher education
- Posted: 21 July 2008
- The government is saying that every person who has the ability to go to university should have the opportunity to do so.
- Lucy Hearne in Finland
- Posted: 21 July 2008
- Lucy reports on her latest visit to Finland. Read her latest update and meet her at the conference.
- Deirdre Hughes steps down from iCeGS
- Posted: 21 July 2008
- Founding director Deirdre Hughes is stepping down from the Centre for Guidance Studies.
- Skills for Scotland Strategy document sent back for rethink
- Posted: 21 July 2008
- The Scottish Parliament voted in May to revise its proposed skills strategy.
- CEL Policy Update No. 32
- Posted: 16 July 2008
- News briefing from the Centre for Excellence in Leadership, covering 4 to 15 July 2008.
- Wanted! Careers Advisers who have left Connexions
- Posted: 16 July 2008
- The ICG are conducting a research project to investigate the impact of 14-19 policies on career guidance in England.
- CEL Policy Update No. 31
- Posted: 16 July 2008
- News briefing from the Centre for Excellence in Leadership, covering 20 June to 4 July 2008. Also a brief guide to the Cabinet paper Excellence and fairness.
- Break-Out or Break-Up?
- Posted: 16 July 2008
- Report into the implications of Institutional Employability Strategies for the role and structure of University Careers Services.
- Placing employment advisers in GP surgeries
- Posted: 16 July 2008
- A research report commissioned by the Department for Work and Pensions Pathways Advisory Service.
- CEL Policy Update No. 30
- Posted: 15 July 2008
- News briefing from the Centre for Excellence in Leadership, covering 9 to 20 June 2008. Also a bonus guide to the DWP/DIUS paper Work Skills.
- DIUS proposes compulsory training
- Posted: 15 July 2008
- Compulsory training and an overhauled training system to help people get into and on at work.
- NIACE calls for submissions
- Posted: 15 July 2008
- NIACE is calling for submissions of evidence to its enquiry on lifelong learning.
- CEL Policy Update No. 29
- Posted: 14 June 2008
- News briefing from the Centre for Excellence in Leadership, covering 28 May to 9 June 2008. In this edition: a new skills academy is in the works, the National Audit Office reports on Skills for Life, and many secondary schools may face closure or conversion to academy status under a new DCSF directive. Also, continuing activity on the unions front, and more controversy around the head of the Independent Schools Council.
- Offender learning
- Posted: 13 June 2008
- The Learning and Skills Council (LSC) has published a booklet of FAQs for the new OLASS (Offender Learning and Skills Service) prospectus.
- CBI surveys education and skills
- Posted: 13 June 2008
- The Confederation of British Industry has just published Taking Stock - its annual survey on education and skills.
- Attitudes to learning
- Posted: 13 June 2008
- New report from DIUS on adult attitudes to learning.
- Life chances
- Posted: 13 June 2008
- Check out the report from the Cabinet Office on progressing life chances.
- Decline in adult learning
- Posted: 13 June 2008
- A new survey indicates that fewer adults are taking up learning.
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