News
Threat of shortfall in Funding

New National survey of adult basic skills needs

Experts slam proposal to cut benefits

Work-based learning basic skills programme

Teacher training: which model?

ICT Skills for Life draft standards

ICT funding

OCNW develops ICT award

Front line workers in Southwark

Libraries in Basic Skills partnerships

Articles
ICT as the new basic skill – Lisa Englebright, of NIACE explains the new basic skill

ICT and adult literacy and numeracy: observing practice – Maria Kambouri, seeks to identify effective teaching of ICT

‘Boost' lifeskills studio – Jane Allen & Ingrid Lackajis explain how libraries can improve basic skills in deprived communities

Family Literacy – a case study – Barbara Conridge & Christine Pugh, present a case study of family literacy in a Bedford school

Numeracy: the key basic skill – by Richard Evans

Website of the month: Skills for Life Quality Initiative
www.lsc.gov.uk/sflqi