Dear Colleague,
This
issue includes a spotlight on how vocational education and training can
help to break the cycle of re-offending and re-imprisonment. We also
focus on two of our research projects. The first is CSD's second
international research project, Training for rural development:
agricultural and enterprise skills for women smallholders. The second
is a joint research project undertaken with CfBT Education Trust,
Smoothing the path: advice about learning and work for disadvantaged
adults.
We hope you find the articles of interest. If you would like to contribute to our newsletter, please contact the editor.
Kind regards,
Nick Grist
Senior Programme Manager
City & Guilds Centre for Skills Development (CSD)
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CSD
and CfBT Education Trust joined forces to find out the best way to
provide careers advice to people who often have to overcome a
combination of obstacles, some of them long-term, some transient. Heidi
Agbenyo, Senior Manager - Stakeholder Communications, examines the key
findings from the report entitled Smoothing the Path: Advice about
Learning and Work for Disadvantaged Adults.
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Sharon
Walker, Research & Policy Officer for CSD, highlights the
importance of agricultural and enterprise skills for women small
holders in developing countries.
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For
individuals who end up on the wrong side of the law, life can become a
cycle of imprisonment, release, re-offending and re-imprisonment. Chris
Sims, Policy & Strategy Adviser, explores how vocational education
and training can play an important role in breaking that cycle - but
only if policy makers and prison authorities are prepared to truly
commit to the potential of prisoners and to recognise their support
needs.
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Skilled
labour is a commodity that some countries are keen to attract. However,
as countries to which skilled workers choose to migrate benefit,
sending countries may be adversely affected - but can there ever be a
win-win situation? Taiye Aro, Marketing Manager at CSD, shares what he
learnt from CSD’ seminar event The mobile workforce: from India to Canada held during the WorldSkills 2009 competition in Calgary, Canada.
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Nick
Grist, Senior Programme Manager for CSD, discusses recent research into
the application of the Visual-Auditory-Kinaesthetic (VAK) model in the
learning environment and discusses practical applications of
multisensory techniques for teachers and trainers.
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Heidi
Agbenyo reports on the latest in a series of events held by CSD that
focus on key issues within international skills development. Turning
the spotlight on South Africa, Professor Brian O'Connell from the
University of the Western Cape (UWC) and Judith O'Connell of the
National Business Initiative (NBI) were invited to share their views on
education and skills development in South Africa.
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CSD
have produced a series of briefing note on issues affecting the global
vocational education and training sector. These notes aim to briefly
summarise and compare existing research, policy and practice in
different countries, and to use this to develop general principles as a
starting point for debate among education stakeholders. For more
comprehensive information on specific issues please refer to the
further reading sections of the notes, or contact CSD directly.
Here are our most recent briefing notes:
view all briefing notes...
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