The deadlines for the Cultures of program planning in adult education: policies, autonomy, and innovation conference have been extended. Please see the details featured below.

The final quarter of 2013 saw the fastest increase in UK technology sector business for over four years, and 44% of UK technology firms were planning to hire more staff in 2014. Despite this, the computer science graduates who are fundamental to this growth show the highest level of unemployment of all students six months after leaving university. The reasons for this are complex, but time and again research and employers point to undergraduate work placements as an effective method for improving employment outcomes in computing. And yet the current supply of placements outstrips demand.

A professional development opportunity for voluntary sector practitioners from Learning Link Scotland and the CLD Standards Council for Scotland.

What?

This one day seminar on adult education in Scotland will look at how we, as a profession, can use the Code of Ethics for CLD to support our work with individuals and communities to influence, shape and co-produce services.

This is the latest edition of the L&W Newsletter, which will reach you via a mailing list of over 1400 experts in and beyond Europe. As always, it focuses on transnational research activities in the field of human resource development (HRD) and vocational education and training (VET), centred on major categories: conferences, networks, programmes, projects and publications.