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LSDA annual summer conference 21-22 June 2005

Seminars and workshops

*Notes and summaries will be posted on the website as they become available. They should not be read as representing a consensus. The points made were raised in discussion between participants, speakers and panel members. They should not be taken to denote a particular policy response or direction.

Quality Improvement Agency for Lifelong Learning (QIA) - progress, practice and priorities (C3)
A two-hour workshop that provided an opportunity for delegates to hear plans for the QIA and give feedback on priorities.
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Adults in colleges – interim findings from the Committee of Enquiry (C2) A two-hour workshop, hosted by the National Institute of Adult Continuing Education, to air issues about the provision and funding of adult learning.
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The learner voice – beyond the rhetoric (C1)
A session on the importance of 'giving voice' to the customers of public services – the learners. Includes presentations from college students on the LSDA Citizenship Development Programme.
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Accounting for the public value of education and training (A1)
Leading-edge thinking on the concept of ‘public value' in public services and its application to the learning and skills sector.

Lifelong Learning UK – an update from the Sector Skills Council for Lifelong Learning (A2)
Progress on the new Sector Skills Council (LLUK) and the key issues that need to be addressed.

The Framework for Achievement – where next for England, Wales and Northern Ireland? (A3)
A session that covered proposals for unit and credit-based qualifications – latest developments in England.
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Messages from the skills pilots (A4)
Emerging messages from the pilot programmes for the National Employer Training Programme, Level 2 entitlements and pooled adults skills budgets.
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Embedding Skills for Life (A5)
An insight into how literacy, language and numeracy are being embedded across curriculum areas.
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Measuring success and improvement – an update on progress (B6)
An update on the new measures of success for qualifications and 'distance travelled'.
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Skills Academies and Sector Skills Agreements – creating a demand-driven system? (B7)
To what extent will the Skills Academies (national centres for excellence) and the newly-drafted Sector Skills Agreements will align training with employer demands?
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Delivering the new 14–19 entitlement – building collaboration between autonomous providers (B8)
A session on proposed changes to 14-19 education, covering the implications of an expanded range of options for young people.
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Strategic Area Reviews and reshaping the sector – what next? (B9)
A round-up of the impact of recent policy developments on post-14 education and training.

Teaching and learning learning resources – doing it differently (B10)
Findings from action research projects investigating the use of leading-edge resources to change practice in institutions with poor inspection results.
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