Skillstories

Royal Mail Case Study

Improved skills at Royal Mail’s National Distribution Centre have boosted morale, cut sickness absence and greatly reduced postal errors

Butlins Case Study

An on site learning centre has attracted staff, resort guests and local businesses, becoming a valued resource and enabling business improvement.

Skills for Life Factsheets

A set of factsheets on provision, literacy and numeracy and frequently asked questions.

Skills for Life “Six Pack” of Guides

Six new Skills for Life publications covering a general guide to skills for life, reading and writing, numeracy, ESOL, dyslexia, speaking and listening.

unionlearn Quality Award - Information for Providers

The unionlearn Quality Award will be awarded to programmes and courses that meet our good practice criteria and will help signpost ULRs to providers that are working successfully and flexibly with unions.

Local heroes - the importance of ULRs (DVD)

Unionlearn has produced a new six-minute DVD, Local Heroes: The Importance of ULRs , which aims to encourage more people to take up the learning challenge.

Department for Innoviation, Universities and Skills FE & Skills E-newsletter

This is the fourth edition of the FE and Skills e-newsletter – a direct news and information link from DIUS to the further education (FE) and skills sector, including Skills for Life practitioners within businesses.

Adult Learners’ Week ‘in a box’

Planning a Learning at Work Day event on the 22nd May 2008 then the 'event in a box' is just what you need. Everything from a banner to posters. Order yours now...

National Year of Reading Website

2008 is the National Year of Reading and is designed to be a celebration of words in every form.

The Value of Volunteering

The Chartered Management Institute (CMI), in conjunction with VSO, carried out an in depth study into the effect of volunteering on professional development for managers. The resulting report, Valuing Volunteering, shows that organisations need to

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