Funding and Support Opportunities
Adult and Community Learning Fund
This new £2.25 million fund will allow organisations from across England to bid for new and imaginative adult and community learning opportunities to encourage, in particular, non-formal opportunities and help disadvantaged groups to take up and progress in learning. The fund, from the Skills Funding Agency and to be administered by NIACE, will contribute to the Government's aspirations for Informal Adult and Community Learning. More...
Free training for trainee teachers on web-based toolkit Skilled to go
The Office of Fair Trading is offering free workshops for Skills for Life teacher trainees to introduce its web-based toolkit for adult education, Skilled to go. Training can be delivered at your premises for literacy, numeracy or ESOL-specific trainees, or mixed groups.
Skilled to go is a free web-based toolkit that uses everyday consumer situations as contexts for learning numeracy and literacy. LLU+ created the resources, which help learners to develop the skills, knowledge and confidence to choose a mobile phone, keep safe online, avoid scams or deal with the challenges of buying and running a car. With new content added in July 2010, there are now five modules to download, with comprehensive Teachers' notes, a User guide and curriculum referencing to the Adult core curricula and Functional Skills standards. Over 4500 teachers have accessed the resources so far.
- Go to Skilled to go
- Book a free Skilled to go workshop for you and your colleagues
- Order a Cascade Skilled to go resource to train your colleagues
Qualifications and Credit Framework (QCF) Support
Since January 2011, public funding has been fully focused on qualifications in the qualifications and credit framework (QCF). The QCF Support website aims to support managers and practitioners in providers as they begin to deliver the new qualifications from the QCF. More...
Ruth Hayman Trust
The Ruth Hayman Trust gives small personal grants to support the education and training of adults who live in the UK and speak English as a second or other language. More...
Forthcoming Events
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