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		<title>Skills Minister Asks Employers to Increase Education</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The U.K. Skills Minister John Hayes has called on all U.K. businesses to promote informal learning at work, following pledges from 64 companies to increase informal workplace training for their staff. via Informal Learning at Work.]]></description>
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		<title>Post-Primary Schools nationwide to receive High-Speed Broadband</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2009 20:29:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A 100mpbs Post Primary Schools Project which will deliver high-speed broadband connectivity to second level schools across the country has been launched by  Communications Minister Eamon Ryan TD.  The project is the result of cooperation between the Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources and the Department of Education and Science, the National Centre for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UK Universities plan to become world leaders in on-line distance learning</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2009 14:31:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A new task force to ensure our universities become the first choice across the world for on-line distance learning was announced yesterday by Higher Education Minister, David Lammy. The task force chaired by Lynne Brindley, the Chief Executive of the British Library will advise on a wider strategy to build on our past and present [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hanafin urges unemployed to upskill</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2009 15:39:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[More than 50,000 young people signing on the Live Register are being urged to improve their education, skills and qualifications during the recession. Over the coming week the Department of Social and Family Affairs will post a letter to all 18 to 25-year-olds on jobseeker’s allowance advising them to look at the options available through [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nottinghamshire County Council engages adult learners with interactive quizzes</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2009 14:53:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Adult Learners Week: 9-15 May 2009 Inspiring adults from diverse backgrounds to give learning a go, the Adult and Community Learning Service (ACLS), part of Nottinghamshire County Council, is engaging adult learners through game-show style quizzes. Adult learning providers across the county are using Qwizdom (www.qwizdom.co.uk), an interactive voting system, to encourage learners to participate [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Retail training package to aid business</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2009 12:08:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The South Australian Government says a new $2.2 million retail training package will help businesses develop a skilled workforce to weather the economic storm. The package, funded by the State and Federal Governments and the retail industry, will upgrade the skills of up to 220 existing retail managers. The Training Minister, Michael O&#8217;Brien, says the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>eLearning Partnership announced with City of Galway VEC</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2009 11:46:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[City of Galway Vocational Education Committee, (CGVEC), has engaged with a global elearning provider Learn Skills in a strategic partnership to create and implement a strategy to develop and establish a lifelong learning culture in Galway City. Learn Skills will provide its significant technical and pedagogical assets, with the CGVEC leading the engagement of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hospitality Training Programs will help fill 1m vacancies</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Apr 2009 13:09:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[An extensive initiative is underway to prepare the hospitality industry for an upcoming one million vacancies. The initiative, run by the National Skills Academy for Hospitality, will endorse hospitality training programmes that meet specific standards and criteria. It is hoped training programmes that receive a stamp of approval from the Academy will stimulate and develop [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lifelong Learning UK seeks online feedback on data collection project</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2009 13:14:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lifelong Learning UK is running a process of data collection about the workforce to ensure there is a better understanding of those operating in the lifelong learning sector. We have been analysing and reporting labour market intelligence gained through the Staff Individualised Record (SIR) submissions received from further education (FE) colleges. Encouragingly, submissions for 2007/08 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Strategy for tech-enhanced learning launched by Higher Education Funding Council for England</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2009 14:15:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Higher Education Funding Council for England has published &#8216;Enhancing learning and teaching through the use of technology &#8211; a revised approach to HEFCE&#8217;s strategy for e-learning&#8217;. This revised approach follows an independent review of the strategy and is designed to provide further support to higher education institutions as they develop their own e-learning strategies. [...]]]></description>
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