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Promoting Lifelong Learning - nine steps to a smarter workplace
Date: 30 March 2007
Promoting Lifelong Learning -
nine steps to a smarter workplace
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At our 1999 Annual Delegate Meeting, we launched our campaign for Lifelong Learning. Since then we have supported thousands of our members who have wanted to Return to Learn. Our work to promote Lifelong Learning has taught us a lot. We still have a lot to learn but a number of things have become clear.
Our members want the opportunity to Return to Learn
There are three big obstacles that we need to help our members overcome to Return to Learn.
- Our members often lack confidence in their ability to Return to Learn.
- Our members have busy lives and find learning inaccessible.
- Our members often find learning too expensive to contemplate.
To promote Lifelong Learning, we have to get organised
To deal with these obstacles, we have to do what we are good at - get organised! We are learning what this involves. It has become clear that there are nine features that a workplace where we are organised for learning will have. We are calling these the Nine Steps to Getting Organised for Lifelong Learning. The sections of this brochure each explain one of these nine steps:
| Step 1 |
A partnership to promote learning needs an agreed policy statement |
| Step 2 |
A partnership to promote learning needs a site level steering group
to promote learning lnitiatives |
| Step 3 |
Without a network of trained learning reps, we cannot promote
Lifelong Learning |
| Step 4 |
To promote learning, a site needs to develop a partnership with
a college or a learning provider |
| Step 5 |
To campaign for learning, you need to identify learning needs |
| Step 6 |
Members need accessible and regular advice and guidance |
| Step 7 |
Organise regular promotions of Individual Learning Accounts and
learning initiatives |
| Step 8 |
A site organised for learning will offer a range of learning |
| Step 9 |
Learning campaigns should be linked to our site organising strategy |
As with all the work of the union it is the lay activists who are at the heart of what we do. So it is the union learning reps who have done most to promote learning. Throughout this brochure learning reps explain themselves what each of these steps involves.
The full version of this brochure can be downloaded at the end of this page.
Promoting Lifelong Learning - nine steps to a smarter workplace was correct at date of publication April 2001.
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