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Pilot of National Qualification Announced for South West | |
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Raising Our Game - new pilot for level 5 qualification - Certificate in Managing Sustainable Communities Creating Excellence, working with the Academy for Sustainable Communities, is offering 20 places on the pilot of a national level 5 course (equivalent to first year of a University degree) in managing sustainable communities. We've just been given the opportunity to run the national pilot for this course, with 20 subsidies worth £2,500. This is the only time people will be able to work ...
Read more... Published: Saturday, October 06, 2007 |
Category: News From Creating Excellence Topic: Learning |
"Leadership and Learning are Indispensable to Each Other", John F. Kennedy | |
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At heart we all know the importance of good leadership. We all remember our best and worst boss, the leadership that inspired us and the leadership that made us want to take a ‘duvet day'. There is now a formal acknowledged need for better leadership skills if we are to achieve sustainable communities. The Egan Review and a number of other research and policy papers have identified leadership and management skills as core to improving our results. As a response to this need we are ...
Read more... Published: Monday, June 18, 2007 |
Category: Learning Topic: Learning |
GOSW - Learning, Understanding, Narrowing the Gap | |
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This document developed by GOSW is intended for anyone who is involved with managing projects or writing partnership plans or when developing Improvement Plans for achieving significant change in a regeneration environment; Board Members of Partnerships/LAAs; and anyone else who has ever wondered what a ‘Learning Plan' is, and why a Plan should have one.... Click here to read full guide.
Read more... Published: Thursday, April 05, 2007 |
Category: Learning Topic: Learning |
Creating the Future - The ASC Award for Sustainable Communities 2006 | |
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The Academy for Sustainable Communities (ASC) recently launched the Government's national awards for sustainable communities. ‘Creating the Future - the ASC Awards for Sustainable Communities' is the premier national awards scheme for the sustainable communities sector. It succeeds the Deputy Prime Minister's Award for Sustainable Communities, which since 2003 has recognised projects and initiatives that contribute to making better places in which to live and work. This year sees the ...
Read more... Published: Thursday, November 30, 2006 |
Category: News From Creating Excellence Topic: Learning |
Breakfast Briefings are Real Ways of Learning | |
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Love to attend a master class but don’t have time in the middle of the day?Like to start the day with some food for thought? Creating Excellence is thinking about organising a series of breakfast briefings. The briefings would be held across the region and would aim to finish by 0930 at the latest. What hot breakfast topics do you think should be included? (Other than scrambled versus fried eggs!) Topics under consideration include how to talk architecture for non-designers and developing your funding ...
Read more... Published: Friday, August 25, 2006 |
Category: Networking Topic: Learning |
Creating Excellence launched its exciting pilot programme for 'real ways of learning' in April 2006 | |
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We are starting with an important Action Learning Set for Action Learning Facilitators. This will be led by Tom Herbert. Tom has extensive experience in the field of learning and development, particularly in the field of action learning; as well as facilitating numerous Action Learning Sets he has also worked with the ODPM, DfES, IDeA and the Health Service to develop action learning set facilitators. See below for full information about this challenging learning opportunity, what it will involve and ...
Read more... Published: Thursday, March 16, 2006 |
Category: Learning Topic: Learning |
New MSc/MRes in Rural Development at Plymouth | |
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The University of Plymouth is launching a new MSc/MRes in Rural Development. The course is due to start in September 2006. The new full-time programme builds on ten-years of experience at the university with part-time Masters courses including Rural Development, Rural Tourism, and Agricultural Business Management. The new programme is a 12-month full-time course, intended for a combination of recent graduates, and mid-career professionals looking for further academic development. The programme aims ...
Read more... Published: Tuesday, March 07, 2006 |
Category: Learning Topic: Learning |
'Speaking with Impact' events score highly | |
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The evaluation from the four 'Speaking with Impact' events, organised by our Regeneration South West Network, has shown that people felt the events really challenged them to improve their public speaking and that 88% rated the events as good/excellent. The 'Speaking with Impact' Training events were provided on behalf of Regeneration South West Network. The venues were: Camborne - 22nd September 05 Barnstaple - 29th September 05 Gloucester - 4th October 05 Gloucester - 24th November 05 ...
Read more... Published: Thursday, December 15, 2005 |
Category: Previous News Topic: Learning |
Workshop to explore generic skills for regeneration and sustainable communities | |
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Local Livelihoods is arranging two one-day workshops to help develop a common and shared understanding of the meaning of "generic skills" for regeneration and sustainable communities The Egan Review recommended that a set of "generic skills" for regeneration and sustainable communities be established. The workshop is about understanding and interpreting the way that works within your local situation. This is part of on-going research into the potential for and feasibility of Local ...
Read more... Published: Friday, November 25, 2005 |
Category: Previous News Topic: Learning |
Local learning for sustainable communities | |
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Local Livelihoods has been awarded a contract, by Creating Excellence, to investigate the potential for, and feasibility of, Local Learning Centres for sustainable communities in the South West Region. The work will run from October 2005 to February 2006. The study will investigate the need and demand for local learning to support the sustainable communities agenda enabling the people in communities in the South West Region, paid and voluntary, to acquire and develop their skills. A key part of this ...
Read more... Published: Friday, November 25, 2005 |
Category: Previous News Topic: Learning |
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