Learning from the Edge: Engaging and motivating young adults

NIACE Conference
13 September 2007
Thistle Marble Arch Hotel, Bryanston Street, Marble Arch, London W1H 7EH

09:30 - 16:30

£195

The conference will cover:

• Examples of excellent practice, across both the formal and the youth and community learning sectors, in engaging marginalised young adults.
• Government strategy and plans to support and engage marginalised and hard-to-reach young adults in learning.
• The experiences and aspirations of individual young adult learners.
• Innovative and effective approaches to work with hard-to-reach groups.

Participants will also have the opportunity to use a range of e-approaches to contribute to the conference, including a video booth, hand-held electronic voting systems and graffiti white boards.
The conference will be of interest to:

• Practitioners and managers of projects for hard-to-reach young adults
• Local authority staff from youth services and education departments
• Staff from Connexions, Youth Offending Teams and teenage pregnancy co-ordinators
• Training providers
• Policy-makers
• Researchers

Further details and reservations.
Enquiries to Gurjit Kaur on 0116 204 2833
email: gurjit.kaur@niace.org.uk

Thanks to the Basic Skills Agency for publishing this information

Literacy and Social Inclusion: the policy challenge

This discussion paper was referenced a couple of times from other "stuff" I was reading a while ago (like last month). I thought it was the result of recent research. It turns out, thank you Dawn for your indefatigable detective work, that it was written in 2004. I'm not even sure whether we included it in the ADSET Members' Update at the time but on reading it I realised that many of the arguments presented are still viable. At only 31 pages (Word document) you may find it helpful.

One thing that finding this paper has done is to add yet another blog to my regular reading list and another e-newsletter to Dawn's inbox on a monthly basis! Information overload is alive and well.