RSC YH Exchange

The Quality Improvement Agency’s (QIA) Excellence Gateway (EG), a complete online service for all those working in FE & Skills in England, has been going from strength to strength and helping colleges and providers in their pursuit of excellence, innovation and improvement.
EG gives everyone working in the further education system the opportunity to improve their [...]

The programme is delivered by NIACE on behalf of the Quality Improvement Agency (QIA) as part of the Teaching and Learning Programme.
E-Guides is an introduction for post-16 practitioners to e-learning and using technology effectively in teaching and learning. The E-Guides programme aims to increase the use of e-learning through developing the skills and knowledge of [...]

E-Guides Forum (Yorkshire & Humber)
Thursday 9th October 2008
AIDC, Halifax
10:00 - 15:00
The E-Guide Forum is a new way for E-Guides in Yorkshire & Humber to receive support, share good practice and help bring e-learning forward in their organisations.
The forum will be a mix of online discussion and face to face meetings.
Online discussion takes place on the [...]

As part of the government’s consultation to gain opinions and views on its higher education debate, JISC will be hosting a blog on its JISC Involve platform.
The Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills (DIUS), John Denham launched a debate on Higher Education in February 2008 when he announced the intention to develop a [...]

Excellence in Inclusivity: Learning for Living & Work Dissemination Event
Wednesday 24th September 2008
Pavilion Hotel, York

09:30 - 15:30
Various colleges in the region have been involved in the ‘Learning for Living and Work’ Project, where they have purchased and used technology to enhance the learning experience.
This event will showcase some of these projects, detailing what has been [...]

The Centre for Excellence in Leadership (CEL) will soon be distributing their first e-newsletter specifically for work-based learning providers and their staff.
Sign up for this here.

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You are cordially invited to the Leeds Girl Geek dinner on the evening of 13th August, at the Living Room in Leeds, close to the station.
Girl Geek Dinners were started in London three years ago as a way for women creatives, techies, scientists and programmers to meet up and socialise and not be outnumbered by [...]

The University of Bolton have contacted us with details of a new Masters in Learning with Technology, developed in the new Institute for Educational Cybernetics (home of the JISC-CETIS service).
The degree is innovative in taking a work-focussed approach to maintain the highest possible relevance to students’ practice. The expectation of an exhibition as a final [...]

NIACE is now recruiting experienced e-learning practitioners to join their E-Guide trainer pool.
The E-Guides training programme, which supports staff in developing the use of e-learning, has been running since January 2004. The programme is now being funded for a further year, and participants will be from adult and community learning, work-based learning, offender learning [...]

The JISC RSC YH e-Learning Conference 2008 took place yesterday at the University of Bradford.
“Learning Excellence: Making It Happen” inspired a full house of delegates, with thoughtful and, at times, provocative keynote talks from George Trow (Principal & Chief Executive, Rotherham College of Arts & Technology), Laura Overton (MD, Towards Maturity) and Will Stewart (e-Learning [...]