Month: February 2018

Michelle

MichelleMichelle is a qualified social worker who works in the North East. In this video, Michelle talks about her experience of returning to education as an adult. She talks about the special qualities of Access to HE tutors, about moving on to a degree and completing it despite a range of challenges in her personal…

RaPAL article: Literacy and empowerment

Following our RaPAL Keynote the paper is now published. RaPAL have kindly agreed to allow access to the journal which has some great articles that link research with practice in meaningful ways.. Our article based on the UCU FE Transforming Lives and Communities project  “Adult Literacy: Further Education as a space for resistance’ is availablr…

Director of English : Elizabeth

https://www.tes.com/news/further-education/breaking-views/a-belt-and-braces-approach-english-can-inspire-gcse-resit This is the work I am involved in where we transform women’s lives- 16-18yr olds but also pre- access and access students; women on our adult and community learning course too. Our work builds their confidence and helps them find their ‘voices ‘ more powerfully & assertively – they can find and use more…