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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>UK Universities plan to become world leaders in on-line distance learning</title>
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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>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>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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		<title>Villiers High School hits e-learning goals with open source Moodle solution</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2009 16:02:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Meeting the Government’s latest eLearning targets, students and teachers at Villiers High School, Middlesex now have access to an engaging, interactive online learning environment that provides anytime, anywhere learning. Choosing to tailor the free open source learning platform Moodle with the help of Moodle Partner Synergy Learning, the school is benefiting from technology tailored to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>e-skills UK and Microsoft bring excitement of IT to Diploma students</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2009 17:05:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week, around 200 Diploma in IT students from 25 schools were given an insight into working in IT. The students spent a day at Microsoft&#8217;s London offices as part of an interactive event to show how exciting a career in IT can be. Throughout the day, students heard from Microsoft employees who shared their [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Parents &amp; teachers to receive practical support to get children learning online</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2009 12:56:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Teachers and parents across the country will be able to request support and training on how to help school aged children access the internet at home for learning, from a new foundation to be set up by Becta. The foundation will provide a vehicle for all interested organisations to demonstrate their commitment and support to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hospitality and tourism training update from the UK</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Oct 2008 17:16:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[24th October, 2008 &#8211; UK &#8211; A short-life task group has been set up by Ministers to review qualifications within the hospitality and tourism sector and ensure these are relevant and responsive to the changing needs of the industry in these tough economic times. The group will also examine a recommendation from the Parliament&#8217;s Economy, [...]]]></description>
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