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February 5th - the Functional Skills
newsletter
It's been such a busy couple of weeks
in the Functional Skills world with lots of events, lots of activity and from
Guroo's point of view, masses of website hits! And with Matthew Hancock
(BIS Minister) supporting Functional Skills through his actions and funding,
it really feels like the corner has been turned!
This week we have news about the
forthcoming Apprenticeships Week, a new feature called "meet the
team", a quick review of events and of course, webinar news.
As always, your comments and thoughts
are appreciated - let us know what you'd like us to cover in the newsletter
by emailing the editor - jwells@guroo.co.uk
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National Apprenticeship Week
This year's week of events and
publicity takes place from 11th to 15th March. Coincidentally, it has
been launched in the same week in which there was a surprising drop in the number of under 19 Apprentices and
we came a step closer to understanding the wider picture and how the Government wants
to promote Apprenticeships, so it probably comes at a really important time!
Events planned include:
A major conference organised by Apprenticeships 4 England in
London on 13th March.
More than 100 local events from schools fairs to employer open
days.
The Apprenticeships toolkit available from the NAS
Lots more information will no doubt
become available as the events draw closer.
Meet the team!
It's good to get personal so we thought
you'd love to know who you were talking to, starting with Cathy and Daisy, the
business development team at Guroo.
These guys are the people who deliver
the demo webinars, call you during your trial period and generally help you
understand how to get the best out of Guroo in the early days. You'll
also see them regularly at conferences and exhibitions.
Cathy (left) cvaissieres@guroo.co.uk 07595 120913 leads the team.
She's based near Winchester is an experienced teacher and Functional
Skills practitioner and originally hails from Toulouse, France.
Daisy (right) dwells@guroo.co.uk 07737 317735 is our new recruit.
She's based in the office in Houghton-le-Spring, knows Functional Skills
and Guroo extremely well (spot the surname) and lives in Washington.
Say hello to either or indeed both of
them and as an added bonus, we'll send a brand new Guroo mug to the first 10
"hello's" by email!
"All Things
Functional" event quotes
It was great to see
so many people in Birmingham recently (more than 150 I believe). It was
extremely well received and below I have added some quotes from the day.
- Opportunities to hear about and discuss
initial and diagnostic assessment. Guroo materials interesting. Whole
event was great.
- Enjoyable day. Found details on some
interesting resources.
- A well organised. The maths session was
useful, however the ICT was brilliant!
- A great day thank you.
- I found the whole day more interesting and
informative than I thought possible!
So on Friday 14th June, it will all
start again - email paul.emmett@emskills.com for more info.
We've also been asked by EMSkills and
IQ to publicise a research survey into QCF English and Maths
qualifications. Click here for the 6 question survey.
Wednesday Webinar at 4.00pm
"What's New in Guroo and
Functional Skills"
is the title of this week's webinar and this week, it will be delivered by
Jonathan. As always we find that many more people enjoy coming back for
the recording afterwards, but if you'd like to be live, just drop an email to info@guroo.co.uk
Join us on Wednesday at 4pm.
All previous webinars are recorded and
available anytime for playback - login as a guest and the password is password.
Simply click on the links below and don’t forget, if you’d like to have your
own 1:1 webinar looking at how Guroo can help you support Functional Skills,
just call us on 0191 305 5045 or email info@guroo.co.uk and we’ll take it from there.
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