Free higher education on Learning at Work Day

4 May 2011

The Centre for Work and Learning partnership is celebrating Learning at Work Day on 19 May with a raft of events across Sussex showing how higher education is a viable and relevant option for those in the workplace. Events across the week are taking place in Brighton, Bognor Regis, Chichester, Fontwell, Hastings, Shoreham and Worthing.

Learning at Work Day is an annual awareness campaign organised by the Campaign for Learning since 1999 as part of Adult Learners' Week. LAW Day promotes and supports workplace learning events across the country. It aims to draw attention to the importance of workplace learning and skills. It encourages people to offer learning to all employees especially to those that may not participate in current learning opportunities.

Northbrook College Sussex is running three events across the week in partnership with the Western Sussex Hospitals NHS Trust at the hospitals in Chichester, Worthing and Shoreham. Activities will include taster sessions at each hospital on their course on Person Centred Care for those Living with Dementia, displays and access to online materials. The collaborative nature of the Centre for Work and Learning means that Northbrook is being supported by the School of Nursing and Midwifery at the University of Brighton and by Chichester College.

For more information, contact Anne Feldberg on 01903 606 264 or email a.feldberg@nbcol.ac.uk

Sussex Coast College Hastings and the University of Brighton have organised two free taster workshops in Search Marketing Strategy and Professional Practice and Graphic Communication in a design studio in the new college premises in Station Approach. The sessions will be taught as hands-on creative mini-projects followed by a networking session. It is aimed at local creative small businesses or employers of creative practitioners in theatres, the local authority and working independently who want to develop new skills to give them a competitive edge. 

For more information, call 01424 428 590 or email K.Bullen@brighton.ac.uk 

The University of Brighton’s School of Education will be launching a Youth Services Virtual Forum for employers and youth work practitioners. The forum will allow the School of Education to remain in close touch with its key collaborators and clients who used to be part of the now-defunct South Coast Consortium. Clients partners include seven local authorities and three youth service charities, another university and a private training provider. The objectives will be maintain contact with these important client groups in a period of reduced public funding for their activities and to encourage the continued professionalisation of youth work services.

For more information, contact Jo Havers on 01273 641 812 or email j.havers@brighton.ac.uk  

The University of Brighton, in collaboration with the Greenpower Centre in Fontwell, will be organising an event to provide participants with a basic knowledge and skills to identify funders and sponsors for charities, schools and not for profit organisations. The knowledge and skills acquired from the event will enable participants to access resources to provide activities that promote and engage learners in engineering related projects. The workshop is currently taught as an elective in the university’s Faculty of Health as part of the community practitioner workshops for second year students.

For more information, contact Emma Tyler on 01243 552 305 or email emma@greenpower.co.uk

The University of Chichester and Chichester College will be running a session at the new business incubation centre at the Dome in Bognor Regis. The session, aimed at small businesses, will give training on the complexities of export contracts for goods and services. It will also provide plenty of opportunities for businesses to network and speak to a representative from UK Trade and Industry.

For more information, contact Sandra Coley on 01243 812 133 or email s.coley@chi.ac.uk