News
Pat on the back for Skills for Life

£1.6bn for Basic Skills over next 3 years

£34m for the Union Learning Fund

Wider still and wider

Consumer satisfaction

Financial literacy

Director for national research centre

Professional development

New Initiatives

Articles
Workplace: Getting the foundations right – Simon Boyd reports

Inspecting Literacy, Numeracy and ESOL – Pat Higginbottom, ALI Inspection Manager, talks about new arrangements for the inspection of literacy, numeracy and ESOL

The Challenge of Basic Skills – Chris Humphries, Director of City & Guilds and a former chairman of the government’s National Skills Task Force, questions whether focusing on targets along will deliver improvements in basic skills

The Adult and Community Learning Fund – Miriam Sampson of the Basic Skills Agency reviews a success story

Basic Skills Classes – a money spinner? - Chris Smith explains how basic skills provision makes good business sense as well as contributing to the community. The article is based on the current LSC funding mechanisms for FE colleges.

Website of the month – Institute of Education, University of London