This week Education Scotland hosted another successful Scottish Learning Festival. Over the two days, they welcomed around 4500 visitors, hosted 100 seminars, delivered inspiring keynote addresses and facilitated discussion and debate in the round table sessions.
You can watch the keynotes and a range of seminars on Glow TV watch again.
The Scottish Government has launched the People and Communities Fund. The fund is aimed at registered social landlords and other community anchor organisations such as community development trusts. There are two main priorities for the investment: employability and preventative action.
There will be at least £6m available for allocation in each of the three years from 2012/13 to 2014/15. This funding is available to organisations to allow them to deliver the services and/or projects that have been identified by the community as helping it achieve its outcomes.
20th and 21st June 2012 in Perth from 10am – 4pm.
Venue to be confirmed
The CLD Standards Council for Scotland in partnership with the Scottish Social Enterprise Academy is offering a two day Understanding Social Enterprise Programme to community learning and development practitioners who work directly with young people in Scotland. The programme will introduce the concept of social enterprise, the challenges faced by enterprises and assess the future for this dynamic and emerging business model. Participants must be able to commit to the full two days and numbers will be restricted to a maximum of 16.
The Standards Council is meeting the cost of the course programme and this will include refreshments and lunch on the two days, plus transport on study visit(s).
If you are interested in this event please contact Angus Williamson for further information and an application form.
Legislation will be considered to ensure that communities across Scotland have access to learning opportunities needed to develop skills and help people into jobs.
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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The Scottish and Credit Qualifications Framework Partnership (SCQFP) invites teachers and those working in community learning to come up with a new title for the guide currently known as the Schools Toolkit. This competition is open to all secondary school teachers and workers in community learning settings in Scotland and the deadline for entries is Friday 29 June 2012.
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