Careers in Construction

Too often Construction is seen in terms of building, joinery, plumbing……In fact Construction affects every single person’s lives from the construction of hospitals at birth, schools through early life, homes to live in, places of work and places of worship. This then encompasses a vast range of disciplines from planning and design, architecture, restoration, project management, surveying, engineering and environmental studies. Please join us to hear from Construction Professionals about

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CEITIDH – FIRST GAELIC COMPUTER VOICE

Ceitidh Computer Voice Ceitidh is now available from CALL Scotland’s Scottish voice website alongside “Heather” and “Stuart”, the two Scottish computer voices. Heather and Stuart are also licenced for the entire Scottish Public Sector. The new Gaelic computer voice is licensed for the Scottish public sector, so it can be used by students in schools, colleges and universities, NHS patients, and employees in the public sector. CALL also has permission

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Indian and Pakistani delegation experience Scottish education

During January the Education World Forum took place in London, and this year included a strong contribution from Scottish education. Our own Alan Armstrong was there as part of the Scottish delegation at the forum and Angela Constance, Cabinet Secretary for Education and Lifelong Learning, provided an important key note speech highlighting  recent developments in Scottish education and new policies for developing skills for life. To follow on from this

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Young Heritage Apprenticeship- Princes Foundation

25th July 2016- 14th July 2017 This 12 month course will provide 16-18 year olds with training and practical experience in traditional building crafts and the opportunity to gain a heritage building skills related NVQ2. Young Heritage Apprentices will have the opportunity: To be exposed to a number of craft skills Specialise in either stonemasonry, plastering, carpentry, roofing and landcrafts Learn a trade alongside master craftspeople, and work on new

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DESMOS Support for Practitioners

Desmos is a graphing calculator which millions of students around the world use for free.   Desmos also create activities on top of that calculator, helping students use a powerful tool to experience all the curiosity, beauty, and sense that math has to offer. Those activities were used so often by so many teachers around the world they created an Activity Builder, helping every teacher create digital math activities that equal

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Technologies at Work – Real life, Real Time

27 January 2016- 2:30pm In March last year Education Scotland published ‘Building Society: Young people’s experiences and outcomes in the technologies’.   This impact review recognised how important this area of the curriculum is in preparing young people for the world of work. Technologies at work is a series of Glow meets that will allow young people to interact with people who have made a career through working in a range

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LEARNING IN CARE REFERENCE TOOL

This document aims to support care staff working collaboratively with education staff to support children and young people with their learning in the care setting. It recognises that care staff are already supporting children and young people’s learning in care, and aims to provide them with practical examples which will assist services to further improve learning outcomes for children and young people across care and education. The examples of learning

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‘Manifesto on Adult Learning in the 21st Century’

The European Association for the Education of Adults launched its  publication which sets objectives for creating a Learning Europe: a Europe that is able to tackle the future positively and with all necessary skills, knowledge and competences. One page info graphic  http://www.eaea.org/media/policy-advocacy/manifesto/manifesto1pagers_en.pdf More info here  Manifesto