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 | Later Life Learning and Local Area Agreements |
| First Steps |
| Digital Stories |
| Learning in Fourth Age Settings |
| Employment Equality (Age) Regulations 2006: Website |
| Financial Capability for Older People |
Click here for a list of past Older and Bolder Projects
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Later Life Learning and Local Area Agreements
This paper is intended to help local authorities to develop their Public Service Agreements (PSAs) and to consider how and when education in later life can be offered. It explores the value of learning in later life, some of the ways it can be incorporated into Local PSAs and latterly highlights some of the features of the local adult education world.
| Download Later Life Learning and Local Area Agreements paper |
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First Steps
2006/07 - Determining the range and level of first steps work from which older people benefit. A toolkit is being written which aims to increase and improve access into First Steps provision for older people.
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Digital Stories
Earlier in 2007 the Older & Bolder team set up two workshops, one in Coventry and the other in Birmingham, to record older people’s learning journeys. The mornings were used to encourage the learners to talk about their experiences and how their learning had affected their lives. The facilitators then helped them to gather their thoughts, and any documents and photographs they had bought along, into a story. In the afternoon their stories were recorded and the images loaded onto a computer. These 10 personal stories demonstrate how learning has changed these peoples’ lives.
From Danny who said,
“The head teacher of my school brought me in to the office and asked me to
leave school because of poor results and what he had heard from the teachers. He
said that I was wasting their time and mine and that I would make nothing of my
life – Well I have!
In 2000 I attended Coventry College. I gained my first formal qualification, qualified as an electrician, and in 2006 I set up own company. I have proved my teachers and the head teacher wrong – I have achieved my goals and more.”
To Margaret who said,
“At the age of 40 I learnt to read, a new life began. I learnt to thread a
needle and went on to a hand embroidery course, followed by a C&G in patchwork
and quilting.
I found the written work very hard, but using the abc button on the computer and having a great tutor helped.”
Older & Bolder is currently developing a ‘toolkit’ to demonstrate how to collect digital stories from older people. This will be available shortly on this website.
You can download two sample stories from the DVD below.
| "Easy as ABC" by Margaret Laban - [wmv file 2.5 MB] |
| "A challenge in retirement" by Norman Burn - [wmv file 2.5 MB] |
If you would like a high-resolution, hard copy of the original DVD please email: lois.gladdish@niace.org.uk with your names and address.
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Learning in Fourth Age Settings
Dutton, Y., Gladdish, L. and Soulsby, J. (2006). Adult Education in care settings. Copies available from Older & Bolder Information Officer, NIACE.
| A NIACE briefing sheet: Adult education working in care settings (PDF), January 2006 |
NIACE. (2001). Days out, Days in. DfES. Copies available from Older & Bolder Information Officer, NIACE, lois.gladdish@niace.org.uk
Soulsby, J. (2000). Fourth Age Learning Report. DfES. ISBN 1841852821. A summary of the report can be downloaded from www.lifelonglearning.co.uk/fourthage/
NIACE. (1999). Carry on learning: Opportunities for older people in care settings: Conference report. Copies available from Older & Bolder Information Officer, NIACE. lois.gladdish@niace.org.uk
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Age Regulations
Older & Bolder is offering a website and a telephone help-line to assist providers, adult students and trainees.
Enter Age Regulations 2006 Website here
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Financial Capability for Older People
Based on projects and policy work we have devised the following financial capability materials specifically for older people.
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Financial Education Curriculum for Older Learners 2006 - [PDF]
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Briefing Sheet | ||
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Publications: |
Qualifications for Teaching & Delivering Literacy, Language & Numeracy in
the context of finance
One qualification at Level 2 which is 10 hours and a more in-depth, and Level 3
which takes 30 hours.
These qualifications for Skills for Life tutors cover the topic of Teaching &
Delivering Literacy, Language & Numeracy in the context of finance and are about
how to embed financial literacy into their existing teaching. They cover why
finance is an important context for the delivery of literacy, the issues this
causes for SfL tutors, what existing resources there are and how these can be
used within your own sessions.
Further details of the qualifications can be found in the documents below:
| Financial Literacy Unit L2 |
| Financial Literacy Unit L3 |
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