Free week in the newsletter

This week is "free week" and we feature lots of free to access and free to use resources for GCSE and Functional Skills in maths and English.

Join NCFE and The Learning Curve Group for a "Queen's Speech Webinar" delivered by sector expert Beej Kaczmarczyk.

We've also added free links to GCSESCREENER and some great BBC Bitesize resources and for those who are prepared to go that extra mile and follow @ForSkills, then a free poster awaits.

And don't forget the links to this weeks free ICT (IF functions) and free maths (mean and range) videos. 

As always, feel free to contact Jonathan Wells, the editor of this newsletter on 0191 3055045 or jonathan@forskills.co.uk. 

Week of May 13th English and maths newsletter

This week's newsletter has a brief political update taking into account post election announcements and news about the international comparison OECD "PISA" tests and where the UK sits in comparison.

We also have news of a new e-learning hours report that came about as a result of a customer request and some great free stuff from ForSkills - learner journey posters for English and maths. 

And free videos this week - mean & range plus @if functions - our first free ICT video. 

As always, feel free to contact Jonathan Wells, the editor of this newsletter on 0191 3055045 or jonathan@forskills.co.uk. 

In the news

In this week's newsletter we have a really good summary of all the major parties manifesto positions in this sector written and published by AELP.  At just 8 pages long,it details all the promises by policy area.

Learning at Work Week is nearly here too - also this week is a new feature - about "features".  In the coming weeks we'll cover additional areas such as GCSE assessment, e-learning hours reports and learner progression analysis. This week we start with spiky profiles!

And did you win - the results of the £250,000+ e-portfolio prize draw!  

As always, feel free to contact Jonathan Wells, the editor of this newsletter on 0191 3055045 or jonathan@forskills.co.uk. 

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