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Dear Colleague,
Welcome to the Spring 2010 issue of the City & Guilds Centre for Skills Development (CSD) newsletter. It has been a busy first quarter for CSD with growing interest among the skills community in the findings from our recent research project on agriculture and enterprise skills for women smallholders. We are also building partnerships for our own delivery projects in the near future. Please do visit the project website for more information: www.skillsdevelopment.org/T4RD.
I am grateful to Jillian Convey (Cherie Blair Foundation), Dr. Richard Evans CGLI, David Hoey (WorldSkills International), The Africa Unit and Ron Mazzachi and Ashlea Bartram (NCVER) for their excellent contributions.
I hope you find the articles as interesting as we have. If you have any comments or would like to contribute an article, please contact the editor.
Best wishes,
Nick Grist
Senior Programme Manager
City & Guilds Centre for Skills Development
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In this issue...
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Hit or Myth: UK/Africa Further Education Partnerships supporting Skills Development
Higher education (HE) partnerships have long been seen as a vehicle for advancing knowledge and sharing experience. Does this hold equally for partnerships which help support skills development and further education (FE)? A report on the Africa Unit's workshop at 'Going Global 4'.
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Traversing the education sectors and the Australian Qualifications Framework
After people complete their compulsory schooling in Australia, their main choices for post-school education are vocational education and training, higher education or a combination of both. The qualifications they earn are governed by the Australian Qualifications Framework, the prime function of which is to maintain the consistency and quality of qualifications delivered in Australia. But does it also help students move between the education sectors? Ron Mazzachi and Ashlea Bartram from the National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER) discuss.
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Laying the foundations for skills training in North Western Thailand
Alexandra Cotter gives a personal account of her experience as a volunteer at the Baan Dada Children's Home and Community Services, where a new initiative is being launched to provide a technical vocational school for young people living in disadvantaged communities in North Western Thailand.
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The critical importance of mathematics and numeracy to the skills agenda
In order to create an effective national skills agenda, it is essential to recognise and resolve the problems associated with mathematical subjects. The perception that the subjects are difficult, coupled with a deep seated cultural hostility, requires fundamental action. Dr. Richard Evans, author of the free resource www.technicaleducationmatters.org, sets out his argument.
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Skills competitions: successfully changing public perceptions of vocational education and training
The WorldSkills Competition is an opportunity for skilled young people to compete with their peers on the world stage. The 2009 competition attracted more than 50,000 student visitors and 300,000 online views. What impact do these competitions have on changing perceptions of Vocational Education and Training (VET)? WorldSkills International Chief Executive David Hoey gives his opinion.
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Support for women entrepreneurs in Ramallah
Palestinian businesswomen are working hard to help their struggling economy, but many lack the skills, access to finance and networks to take their businesses to the next level. The Cherie Blair Foundation for Women and the Business Women Forum have recently opened a new business development centre in Ramallah to help businesswomen address this gap.
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Briefing notes
CSD has 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:
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