[Conet] FW: Making the Learning Community a Reality

[Malcolm Forbes]

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From: Samantha Bramwell [mailto:samantha.bramwell@niace.org.uk]=20
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Subject: Making the Learning Community a Reality

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Sam Bramwell
Conferences Coordinator
NIACE
Tel: 0116 204 2855
Fax: 0116 254 8368

NIACE Annual Policy Conference
Making the Learning Community a Reality

Wednesday 3 December 2003
One Whitehall Place, Westminster, London SW1A 2HD

One of the strands of the Government's Skills Strategy relates to the
vision
of Learning Communities as a means of tackling educational disadvantage
and
mobilising demand.  Alongside the Regional Skills Partnerships that will
focus on linking skills, business support and economic development to
drive
up regional and local productivity the Government is interested in
promoting
and applying "the capability of local councils to develop their
collective
base of skills and learning as "learning communities" Government Offices
will be charged with trialling this concept.

The idea of the Learning Community is not a new one, but it takes many
forms
and has many meanings.  In the light of its inclusion in the Skills
Strategy
it is timely to explore the potential of this notion of learning
communities
in raising aspirations and building the confidence and skills of local
people.

The conference aims are:
	*	To provide an opportunity to think through what is meant
by
the notion of "learning communities" and to reflect on what can be done
both
locally and regionally to promote and support them
	*	To outline how different tiers of government - local,
regional and national - view their contribution to developing the notion
of
learning communities and work with Further Education, the Voluntary
Sector
and other players in realising aims in this area
	*	To offer case studies from projects, which have some
experience of seeking to implement their concept of a learning community
in
practice
	*	To provide an overview of work on learning communities
outside the UK.

This event will be of interest to:
	*	Policy makers, funders, decision makers in skills
development, adult learning, lifelong learning, community development
and
neighbourhood renewal
	*	Local authority officers and elected members, in both
those
which are also LEAs and in District Councils, who have a role in adult
learning, skills development, neighbourhood renewal and community
regeneration
	*	Senior managers in further education working to raise
aspirations and to embed learning in deprived communities
	*	Managers of voluntary and community organisations
involved
in supporting and developing learning communities
	*	Others involved in adult learning, lifelong learning or
community development for whom the notion of learning communities has
resonance

For more information contact Gurjit Kaur at NIACE on
gurjit.kaur@niace.org.uk <mailto:gurjit.kaur@niace.org.uk> or Tel: 0116
204
2833
Or visit the NIACE website at www.niace.org.uk/Conferences