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Tutor training: building capacity in Skills for Life

Duration: 07 June 2004 to 08 July 2004

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Skills for Life has set out a challenging new agenda for creating a new framework and professional identity for teachers and others engaged in the delivery of literacy, numeracy and language in post-16 education and training. Building the capacity of the Skills for Life workforce is essential to meeting government’s targets and the region’s aspiration to improve basic skills levels. This Learning Theme, run in partnership with the South West Skills for Life Unit, will bring together policy makers and practitioners, to debate and explore a broad range of issues for staff development and tutor training in post 16 Skills for Life.

During this Theme we will:
  1. Identify successful models for staff development and training: and
  2. Identify successful strategies to build capacity for staff development in the workplace, FE, Probation, Prisons, Jobcentre Plus and voluntary sector settings

THEME ACTIVITIES
SLIM Learning Themes bring practitioners, researchers and policy makers together face to face and on-line to exchange ideas, practice and details of what works, where and why. During the Theme SLIM researchers will:

  • identify, summarise and contextualise research for participants
  • interviews policy makers
  • identify projects demonstrating good practice and write these up as case studies and
  • facilitate an on-line discussion

    • Resources will be highlighted during an on-line discussion and will made available through our website at www.swslim.org.uk. For those who lack the time to take an active part in the Theme, we will produce three research briefs, summarising our findings.

    The Theme will culminate in a workshop bringing together participants to reflect on the findings and discussion and to develop recommendations for our Final Report. This will be distributed widely in the region and fed back to the FRESA Inspiring Individuals Group who have prompted the Theme.

    Resources have been highlighted via the on-line discussion and made available through the buttons on this page.

    Research briefs, summarising our research and findings are also available.

    The Theme culminated in a workshop bringing together participants to reflect on the findings and discussion and to develop recommendations for our Final Report. This will be distributed widely in the region and fed back to policy makers by Theme participants.

    For further information please email swslim@exeter.ac.uk or subscribe to the Theme:

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