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Lifelong Learning News |
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Usdaw and Lifelong Learning |
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Usdaw launched its Lifelong Learning campaign seven years ago. Since then, our campaign has shown that when learning is made accessible and affordable, our members are keen to take it up.
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More than 22,000 members have returned to some sort of learning
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More than 525 Union Learning Reps have been trained
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Learning is up and running in over 150 workplaces
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Over 45 workplace Learning Centres have been set up
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Partnerships to access learning have been established with major companies like Littlewoods, Tesco, Sainsbury’s and Northern Foods
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Partnerships with colleges to promote access to learning have been established all over the country
This list does not mention the wider successes that Usdaw has been involved with such as our work to secure legal rights for Union Learning Reps and workplace Learning Committees. We also campaign to make learning affordable.
Usdaw can only campaign for Lifelong Learning because we are strong and well organised. In turn, Lifelong Learning is adding value to union membership and helping to raise the profile of Usdaw, and so building union membership and organisation.
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Learning Bug Online |
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ULR Briefing – Learndirect: the Trade Union Sector Hub- 09 March 2006
What is it?
The Trade Union Sector Hub is a network of trade union learning centres offering learndirect courses through the TUC. It monitors quality and distributes funding for all learners who undertake funded courses. It is like a college and it is inspected by the Adult Learning Inspectorate in the same way. Usdaw has Union Hub centres in a growing number of workplaces including Sainsburys, Littlewoods and Boots Distribution Centres.
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An audience with … Angela Hoskins ULR at Sainsburys Worle store- 09 March 2006
What made you become a ULR? I had no intention of becoming a ULR until project worker Christine Green came to do a road show at the store. The position sounded intriguing and I ‘volunteered’. I have not been disappointed and have enjoyed the experience and the challenges that go along with the post.
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At the heart of the union- 09 March 2006
A proposition to give Union Learning Reps (ULRs) official status in the Usdaw Rule Book was carried unanimously at
the 2005 Annual Delegate Meeting.
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