SLN sponsored Learning at Work Day events a success!

23 May 2011

In partnership with six universities, further education colleges and business stakeholders, the SLN's CWL project held seven successful events across Sussex to celebrate Learning at Work Day, 19 June 2011.

The events, which demonstrated the value and viability of learning in the workplace, took place in Brighton, Bognor Regis, Fontwell, Hastings, Shoreham and Worthing. 

Northbrook College Sussex ran three events across the week in partnership with the Western Sussex Hospitals NHS Trust at the hospitals in Chichester, Worthing and Shoreham. Activities included taster sessions at each hospital on their course on Person Centred Care for those Living with Dementia, displays and access to online materials.

Sussex Coast College Hastings and the University of Brighton ran 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 University of Brighton’s School of Education launched 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.

The University of Brighton, in collaboration with the Greenpower Centre in Fontwell, organised an event to provide participants with a basic knowledge and skills to identify funders and sponsors for charities, schools and not for profit organisations.

Full reports from each event will be available on the CWL website in the very near future.

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.