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The Institute for Learning is the
professional body for teachers, tutors,
trainers and assessors across the Learning
and Skills sector. IfL was created by
teachers for teachers and is led by its
Members’ Council, the majority of which is
elected from the membership. |
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The LEAP Project is unique to
Suffolk, delivers free and impartial,
high quality information, advice and
guidance to everyone seeking education or
training opportunities, through Centres and
Points across the county. LEAP Centres have
expert advisors who can provide up-to-date
information on all aspects of education, and
can also help with CV writing and offer tips
on interview and presentation skills. |
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The Skills Funding Agency is a
new agency set up by the government to fund
and regulate adult skills training in
England. We have taken over the work of the
Learning and Skills Council, which closed
down on 31 March 2010. Working
together, we aim to develop a responsive
system of learning and skills provision that
will meet the needs of learners, businesses
and communities throughout the East of
England, supporting the long term prosperity
of our region. |
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Suffolk County Council, through
its Education and Learning departments,
actively supports partnership working with
the Third Sector in a number of areas,
including NLDC funding, teacher training,
and the Apprenticeship Scheme. |
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Suffolk TAP provides a free
comprehensive source of information about
learning opportunities for adults in
Suffolk. We do not carry out training, but
can offer you information on full and
part-time learning opportunities, short
courses, supported open learning packages,
training schemes for young people, training
for adults, higher education, and community
education in Suffolk. |
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The Suffolk Learning Consortium is a
member of the Third Sector National
Learning Alliance which is a growing,
national alliance of Third Sector
organisations involved in learning and
skills. It aims to provide a coherent
national ‘voice’ from and for Third Sector
providers across government departments and
other important bodies, and a forum for
developing Third Sector ideas and proposals.
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West Suffolk College is a rural
further education college with its main
campus located in Bury St Edmunds and Local
Learning Centres in Stowmarket, Thurston,
Haverhill, Newmarket, Sudbury and Mildenhall.
We use over a hundred different venues
around the county to deliver our programmes
and in January 2008 we opened a new centre
in IP-City in Ipswich. |
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The Workers’ Educational Association
is the UK’s largest voluntary provider of
adult education, and supports the
educational needs of working men and women.
The WEA has maintained its commitment to
provide access to education and learning for
adults from all backgrounds, and in
particular those who have previously missed
out on education. |
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learn EAST
is a network of six county-based learning
consortia, including the Suffolk Learning
Consortium, covering the East of England.
The
Network is completed by COVER, the Community
and Voluntary Sector Forum for the Eastern
Region. |
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The Learning
Partnership was established
to promote provider collaboration in support
of lifelong learning and to maximise the
contribution of learning to local
regeneration. The aim is to make
Bedfordshire and Luton, a better place
to live and work by helping to widen
participation to learning for all,
regardless of when, where or how people
choose to learn. |
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Norfolk Unites
- is not a physical learning
consortium but it is development work
leading towards a potential Norfolk
Third Sector learning consortium. Norfolk Unites is
facilitated by Community Connections, a
Great Yarmouth organisation involved in
community engagement and training. |
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Hertfordshire Training
& Development
Consortium
To support and develop the provision of
training by and for the Voluntary and
Community Sector in Hertfordshire. |
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Voluntary Sector
Training (VST) is an
independent charity working to support the
development of a strong, effective and
diverse Third Sector in Essex. |
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Cambridge GET Group
is an umbrella infrastructure support group
for member organisations in the Voluntary
and Community Sector (VCS) who offer
guidance, employment and training (hence
‘GET’) to unemployed or otherwise
disadvantaged people. |
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East of England (COVER
East)
Supporting regional consortium development. |
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