Seminar report from a one-day seminar held by the Employability Forum and Refugee Teachers' Steering Group to explore ways to influence the development of an effective employment strategy for refugees working in the education sector.
Employability ForumBulletins produced every two months by the Offender Learning and Skills Service to disseminate information and news regarding offender learning and skills across the London region. Comprises the following issues:
January 2007;
March 2007;
May 2007;
July 2007;
October 2007;
March 2008.
Offender Learning and Skills ServiceA report from the Channel 4 programme Dispatches investigating whether or not teaching children to read and write too early could be harmful.
Channel 4Film of a performance of The Angel Train.
Thought Machine Films, South Bank University, Southwark Playhouse, Spa SchoolUnknown VHS tape with label reading "British Museum ONLINE".
British MuseumReport investigating higher education provision of language support.
Further Education UnitA report on the government's Refugee Employment Strategy which aims to increase the number of refugees in work. The report summarises the achievements made and outlines the approach needed to give refugees the necessary employment chances.
Department for Work and PensionsA report aimed at setting out how reform of a newcomer's path to citizenship or permanent residence can contribute to the government agenda of strengthening shared values and citizenship in Great Britain.
Home OfficeDocuments produced by the Offender Learning and Skills Service, part of the Skills Funding Agency which aims to ensure that access to learning and skills is available to offenders in prison and supervised in the community.
Offender Learning and Skills ServiceComprises three mathematics exercise books, books 2, 3 and 4 in Somali and an exercise book for an unknown subject in an unknown language.
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation; Cabdillaahi Khaliif FaaraxA film showing children and parents from Leicester and Gainsborough speaking about their attitudes to money and the challenges of managing budgets and saving for the future.
Department for Education and SkillsIn 2010 London South Bank University began an evaluation of all its business activities as part of a cost cutting process, with one proposal being the phased closure of LLU+. In response the Unit instigated a campaign to save their service.
Comprises background information on the situation, correspondence between LLU+ supporters and local Members of Parliament, letters of support for LLU+ sent to London South Bank University and a Save LLU+ petition.
LLU+A film of the LLU+ self-assessment carousel, a set of ten numeracy activities based around the 'Minimum Core' to be completed by participants allowing them to test their skills in a non-threatening environment. The film examines each activity and the thought processes behind them.
Minimum Core was introduced in the 2000s and set out the knowledge and skills required by teachers in literacy, language, numeracy and ICT to fulfil their role.
Divided into the following sections:
1979-1980;
1981-1982;
1983-1984;
1984-1985;
1986-1987.
Includes information about the launch of the Afro-Caribbean Language and Literacy Project, the new location and acommodation of the Unit, courses and programmes offered by the Unit and strategic planning notes.
Language and Literacy UnitIncludes papers relating to the LLU's transfer to the London Borough of Southwark after the abolition of the Inner London Education Authority in 1990 and its planned relocation to Southwark College.
Language and Literacy Unit