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Community Learning and Development, News

Commitment to community learning

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Legislation will be considered to ensure that communities across Scotland have access to learning opportunities needed to develop skills and help people into jobs.

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Education Secretary Michael Russell has indicated legislation for local authorities will be explored as part of the Post-16 Education Bill to support the government’s commitment to provide access across the country to crucial services such as youth clubs, parenting classes, English language tuition and groups starting up social enterprises.

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CPD, Expressive Arts, Learning, News, Opportunities, Primary schools, Secondary schools

Royal Conservatoire of Scotland- CPD

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The Short Courses programme 2012/13 from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland is now available!

The Short Courses programme at the exists to support access to and participation in the wide range of performance and production arts specialisms here at the Conservatoire.  They also help widen participation by creating schemes, projects and partnerships to engage with communities of students less likely to take part.  Their short courses are designed to benefit all ages and stages of development, lifelong learners and also on-going professional development requirements in dance, drama, music, production, screen and teaching skills. 

Click Short Courses – Portfolio 12-13 to view the programme

CPD, Creativity, Literacy and English, Opportunities, Primary schools, Secondary schools

Poetry CPD Sessions

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June 15th

The Byre Theatre, St.Andrews

10am and 1.30pm

With St.Andrews being named a Winning Words Beacon town for the year 2012, The Byre Theatre is running two CPD sessions with a top poet this June.

Ryan Van Winkle, Poet in Residence at Edinburgh City Libraries, will be running two training sessions for primary and secondary teachers, focusing on how to bring poetry into the classroom via the Olympic Games and Sport.

 Click Winning Words CPD for all the details!

Opportunities, Scotland Colleges, Secondary schools

Festival of Politics: Get the Picture! Event at the Scottish Parliament, Saturday 25 August 2012

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Following on from the success of last year’s Young People’s Day event, the Scottish Parliament is inviting young people to take over for the day at this year’s Get the Picture! event. They are looking for a wide range of groups of young people aged 16 to 25 years old from all over Scotland to come and make this event even bigger and better than ever before. They are working in partnership with the Scottish Youth Parliament and Young Scot to create an event to remember.

One of the themes of this year’s Festival of Politics is ‘Positive Change’.  There will be creative ways to display and discuss young people’s issues as well as their ideas and innovative solutions.  For more information and a booking form please email education.services@scottish.parliament.uk.

Challenge, CPD, Creative practitioners, Learning, News, Opportunities

Won’t make the Scottish Learning Festival???

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Then go to Teachmeet- The Scottish Learning Fringe instead!

TeachMeet – teachers sharing ideas with teachers

What is TeachMeet Scottish Learning Fringe?

The Scottish Learning Festival is great. It’s a fantastic opportunity to find out about what’s going on, have your thinking stretched and network with colleagues from across the country, and beyond. However, it’s midweek. Many classroom teachers struggle to make it to SLF as they’re too busy teaching classes! And anyway, in Scotland a festival is not really a festival unless it has a fringe festival. Enter, TeachMeet Scottish Learning Fringe

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Challenge, CPD, Education Scotland, Events, Learning, News, Opportunities, Primary schools, Scotland Colleges, Secondary schools, SQA

Scottish Learning Festival 2012 – registration now open!

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The SLF 2012 Conference Programme and visitor registration are now available on the SLF website. 

The Cabinet Secretary for Education and Lifelong Learning will give the opening address to SLF.

In addition, there will be the following keynote speakers:
• Professor Keith Grint, Professor of Public Leadership, Warwick University Business School
• Matthew Taylor, Chief Executive, RSA.

The full programme of keynotes and seminars, along with details of the range of additional activities, is now available on the SLF website.

Funding, News, Opportunities

Creative Identities – funding now available

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Creative Identities is part of the Scottish Government’s CashBack for Communities programme, which reinvests the proceeds of crime back into communities to benefit Scotland’s young people. The Scottish Government has allocated £2.25 million over three years (2011-2014) to Creative Scotland to deliver Creative Identities programme.

The purpose of Creative Identities is to provide access to high quality experiential opportunities in dance, film and music for young people (0-25 years) in communities where there is an identified and demonstrated need.

For full details on how to access investment through Creative Identities following the link below.
This opportunity is available in: All Scotland
For further information, please contact enquiries@creativescotland.com, or visithttp://www.creativescotland.com/investment/creativeidentities.