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These LSN Post-16 Citizenship Regional events offer the opportunity to share good practice, hear the latest news on policy and emerging priorities and gain practical teaching and learning ideas. November 2010.

The A1 Assessor and V1 Verifier Awards have been revised and re-written by LLUK. ENTO Professional Development is now delivering the 4 new Assessor Qualifications and 3 new Internal Quality Assurance Qualifications (for Verifiers).

City and Guilds have now gained extensions from Ofqual for the PTLLS, CTLLS and DTLLS qualifications.

The Post-16 Citizenship Support Programme is pleased to offer fully funded customised (in-house) training which responds directly to the needs of organisations requiring bespoke support to set up, or improve their citizenship provision.

The UK Border Agency announce that from 29 November 2010, any migrant who wants to enter or remain in the UK as the partner of a British citizen or a person settled here will need to show that they can speak and understand English.

BTL Group Ltd, a leading provider of e-Assessment solutions, will be hosting a FREE half-day seminar showcasing their latest ‘Innovative e-Assessment questions'. 22nd September 2010, London.

The National CETTs Mentoring Compendium contains links to mentoring resources which have been specially selected from the wealth of materal produced by the Centres for Excellence in Teacher Training (CETTs).

The Office of Fair Trading is offering free workshops for Skills for Life teacher trainees to introduce its web-based toolkit for adult education, Skilled to go.

A further project report for the LONCETT ACL Project is now available on the LONCETT website: Adult and community learning providers’ response to the 2007 reforms for the lifelong learning sector with illustrative case studies.

Following extensive discussions with the department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS), IfL will be administering government grants to offset the cost of initial teacher training (ITT) for teachers from September 2010.

NIACE has joined forces with unionlearn and the National Centre for Excellence in the Teaching of Mathematics to launch a joint strategy and initiative to improve adult numeracy.

The latest news from the National Association for Teaching English and other Community Languages to Adults - the professional association for ESOL teachers.

LSIS commissioned NIACE to carry out research - to improve understanding of their motivations, aspirations and behaviours of young people and adults not in education, employment or training.

The Summer 2010 issue (number 13) of the NRDC magazine ‘Reflect’ is now out.

On 1 July the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) adds two new modules to Skilled to go, its free web-based toolkit for adult education that uses everyday consumer situations as contexts for learning numeracy and literacy.

During the 2010 autumn term, ELT well is offering a range of workshops and resource days for language teachers.

The management at London South Bank University (LSBU) is proposing in excess of 100 redundancies.The future of LLU+’s work and all posts are under threat. Join the lobby of the LSBU governors’ meeting on Thursday 15th July.

The LONCETT report ‘An evaluative inquiry into the effectiveness of a blended and modular approach to qualifying associate teachers in the adult and community sector’ has just been published on the LONCETT website.

The new publication Citizenship Materials for ESOL Learners was launched in London on Monday 21 June 2010, at the first of a series of NIACE regional workshops - Active Citizenship: Active Communities.

Welcome to the June edition of post-16 citizenship e-news keeping you up-to-date with the latest news, events and resources available from the Post-16 Citizenship Support Programme.