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Current Older & 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.

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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 has developed a ‘toolkit’ to demonstrate how to collect digital stories from older people. This is available to download below.

You can download two sample stories from the DVD below.

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.

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.

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:

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