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Learning Bug 2005 Issue 1 |
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Affordable Learning
Basic Skills
Regional projects
Learning Reps
Learning in Retail
Rights for reps
Usdaw's team
Affordable Learning
ULR briefing - making learning affordable
Making learning affordable is part of Usdaw’s Lifelong Learning strategy. So losing the Individual Learning Accounts scheme (ILA) was a setback and we have been successfully campaigning for alternatives. But now what you can get depends on where you live and your circumstances.
16 May 2005 [Full Story]
Basic Skills
Skills for Life - taking the tests!
The National Tests in English and maths at Level 1 and Level 2 have been around for a while now. We asked Usdaw people for their verdict.
16 May 2005 [Full Story]
Soap Stars - 100% success
16 Usdaw members at the Standard Soap Company in Ashby-de-la-Zouch have been celebrating their passes in the literacy and numeracy National Tests. That’s a 100% success rate. The learners had been studying for two hours a week over the last few months as part of the site’s Lifelong Learning initiative. It was developed as a partnership between the company, Usdaw, Stephenson College and the local Learning and Skills Council.
16 May 2005 [Full Story]
Regional projects
Sowing the seeds of learning
Kent is often called the ‘garden of England’ but so far it’s been a desert for Lifelong Learning. Now it’s getting a makeover. No it’s not Ground Force, it’s TUFSE and in place of Tommy and Charlie we have Jim and Nikky. And like any makeover they are under pressure to get the job done on time. TUFSE (or the Trade Union Fund for the South East) was set up by the TUC and the six LSCs in the South East to fund union-led learning.
16 May 2005 [Full Story]
Learning Reps
Learning in Retail
What is happening in retail?
Lifelong Learning is one of Usdaw’s most successful and popular campaigns. We have now trained over 500 Union Learning Reps and encouraged 10,000 members back into learning. But many in retail have yet to see these benefits and are asking why learning has been slow to develop in retail. And they want to know what Usdaw is doing about it.
16 May 2005 [Full Story]
Rights for reps
Usdaw's team
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