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Sign Up Now: September 2006Core-funded by the European Social Fund and the Department for Education and Skills |
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Including International Literacy Day, 8 September
Sign Up Now takes place throughout the month of September to encourage aspiring learners to improve their health, skills, career opportunities and well-being by joining a class or course. NIACE runs a full-scale media campaign involving local press and radio to motivate people to ring learndirect for information on what’s available locally.
We will have a selection of free materials including posters and postcards for you to promote your enrolment activities during Sign Up Now. Please watch this space for details.
Sign Up Now freebies
Free Sign Up Now materials to help you to promote your enrolment activities are still available. Fill out the online order form to order posters, postcards and other giveaway items.
If you don't want to complete your order online, you can print an order form here (PDF) and fax it to us on 0116 2230050.
You can also download the free materials by using the links below:
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Sign Up Now A5 Postcards (coming soon) |
Don’t forget the online calendar
Each year there are more and more visitors to the Adult Learners' Week website, so you can be sure that people will be visiting the online calendar to see what’s happening this September.
The free calendar is a great vehicle for promoting Sign Up Now enrolment events, and since learndirect call handlers will have access to the site, it’s considering using the site to highlight any extra activities you’re running. You can add or search for details of events at www.signupnow.org.uk/calendar
News
Talking employers’ language
Helping Polish-speaking adults improve their English skills for the
workplace
Many businesses employ people whose first language is Polish. Polish workers are
productive and enjoy working and living in the UK, but are often hampered by
their lack of English skills. Learning English will help employees deal better
with aspects of working life that can be baffling if they do not have a good
grasp of the language.
With ESF support NIACE, the National Institute of Adult Continuing Education, is
producing a leaflet to highlight the benefits to employers of providing ESOL on
site, or alternatively to encouraging their employees to ring learndirect's
Polish helpline for advice and guidance.
Alongside the leaflet NIACE will be producing a series of postcards specifically to promote the Polish language line to employees.
| We regret to announce that we are now out of stock of the Polish leaflets and postcards. There may have been a few people who ordered these materials using the online order form before we had time to update the website. If so, then we sincerely apologise to those people for the orders that we are unable to fulfil. If we are able to organise a reprint of these materials we'll let you know as soon as we can on this webpage. |
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Hollywood actor supports STAR Awards
The shortlisted nominees for the STAR Awards - which recognise and reward
the work of those who have made outstanding contributions to the quality of
learning of others - will be announced as this newsletter goes to press. This
year the awards have the backing of top actor Tom Hardy, who has starred in
such films as Black Hawk Down, Layer Cake and Star Trek.
“My tutors played an important part in motivating and encouraging me to pursue my dreams,” said Tom. ”Throughout my one-year foundation course at Richmond Drama School, I was inspired by tutors who gave me the self-confidence and determination to succeed.”
For more information on the STAR Awards please visit www.dfes.gov.uk/starawards/
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Inclusive Learning – 10 Years On
19 September 2006, London Resource Centre
This year marks the tenth anniversary of the publication of the Further
Education Funding Council’s influential Inclusive Learning report of the
Learning Difficulties and/or Disabilities
Committee chaired by the late Professor John Tomlinson.
This conference – which is being delivered with ESF support as part of Sign Up Now, and include workshops delivered by ESF-funded projects – will give staff, managers and learners in post-16 education an opportunity to re-visit the key messages of the Inclusive Learning report, ten years on. Mindful of the new Disability Equality duties on the public sector we will look at developments in adult learning for disabled learners including curriculum design, a chance to reflect on practice, consider quality, celebrate and look to the future.
For more details please contact gurjit.kaur@niace.org.uk or visit the website at www.niace.org.uk/conferences
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The Really Useful Diary of Learning And Earning
Around 40% of people on incapacity benefit have mental health difficulties as their primary reason for being on IB, with a further 10% having mental ill health as a secondary condition.
The Really Useful Diary of Learning And Earning, published to coincide with September’s Sign Up Now period, promotes learning, skills and work for people with mental health problems and unseen disabilities.
The booklet will contain
| Personal Skills and Positive Statements ‘mind-maps’ |
| Month to view diary sheets |
| National sources of information and important websites |
| A section on "Work focused help available to people with a disability". |
To receive a free copy please contact susan.rees@niace.org.uk
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Enterprise Week - 13-19 November
Enterprise Week is a celebration of enterprise in all its forms. There
will be thousands of activities and events across the UK, including a mass
‘speednetworking’ extravaganza, themed days and a national one-day enterprise
challenge for young people.
Last year, Enterprise Week was a huge success. With over 2,200 events, involving 408,000 participants across the UK, in only its second year it was two thirds the size of Red Nose Day.
To order your free action pack or for more information contact claire on 020 7497 4039 or email info@enterpriseinsight.co.uk
For a full list of other campaigns please order our 2006 Campaigns Calendar by sending an email to alw@niace.org.uk
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