National Agencies
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| www.dfes.gov.uk/readwriteplus |
Adult Basic Skills Strategy Unit - Skills for Life information, news and documents. |
| http://www.sflip.co.uk/ |
Skills for Life Improvement Programme - Leadership and Management and Professional Development information |
| www.basic-skills.co.uk |
Basic Skills Agency - latest information on events, training, publications and documents. |
| http://www.bdadyslexia.org.uk/ |
British Dyslexia Association - information, advice and research about Dyslexia |
| www.niace.org.uk |
National Institute of Adult and Continuing Education - research, publications and training, Pre-Entry Curriculum (BASIL project) |
| www.move-on.org.uk |
Move On campaign - an approach to promoting the National Tests at Levels 1 and 2. |
| www.nrdc.org.uk |
National Research and Development and Centre for adult literacy and numeracy |
| http://www.dyslexiaaction.org.uk/ |
Dyslexia Action - educational charity who provide assessment, teaching and training in dyslexia support |
Awarding and Standards bodies
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| www.lifelonglearninguk.org/svuk/ |
Standards Verification UK - new basic skills teaching qualifications
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| www.Basic-skills.org.uk |
City and Guilds - information and downloads on new qualifications for teachers and learners |
Learner resources on-line
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| www.bbc.co.uk/skillswise |
Materials for learners and teachers, including on-line activities, factsheets, games and tutor newsgroups. |
| www.talent.ac.uk |
Curriculum mapped teaching materials and professional development information for essential skills. |
| www.sbu.ac.uk/numeracy/ |
A new centre specifically for Numeracy, based in London. The web site includes information and resources to download. |
| http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/ |
Guide to Grammar and Writing - grammatical terminology explained with examples and activities. |
http://www.english-zone.com/ |
American web site (watch spelling exercises!) with many interactive games and quizzes in literacy, language and study skills. |
| www.worksheetfactory.com |
Worksheet creating software to download for the production of vocabulary and numeracy activities which are customised by the teacher. |
| www.moneymatterstome.co.uk |
Practical guide to family finance, including tutor's area, interactive workshops and printable advice. |
| www.dfes.gov.uk/readwriteplus/ |
New materials on-line covering five vocational areas with embedded basic skills standards |
| www.skillsworkshop.org |
On-line resources used in teaching at Abingdon & Witney College, available to download and Core Curriculum linked. |
| www.coolmath.com |
Highly interactive resource with lessons, information, games and quizzes on many aspects of numeracy. |
| www.read-count.org |
Read and Write Together and the Count and Figure it out Together campaigns in family literacy, numeracy and language. |
| www.nln.ac.uk/materials |
National Learning Network materials, mostly vocational subjects, but some communication and numeracy mapped to the Core Curriculum. |
Resource Publishers/Retailers
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| www.avantibooks.com |
Major source of essential skills materials, including literacy, numeracy, ESOL and ILT. |
| www.granada-learning.co.uk |
Good web site for the purchase of software, includes reviews and screen grabs from programmes. |
| www.basic-skills.co.uk |
Basic Skills Agency main web site with links to their publishing department. |
| www.ctad.co.uk |
Cambridge Training and Development produce on-line and CDRom-based resources, including assessment and teacher training materials. |
Case Studies and Good Practice
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| www.thenetwork.co.uk |
The Network - advice, case studies, based at Lancaster University |
Information Learning Technology
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| www.nln.ac.uk |
National partnership programme promoting the uptake of ILT in post-16 education. |
| www.becta.org.uk |
The government's lead organisation on information technology in education. |
| http://ferl.qia.org.uk |
Promoting ILT information services, including reviews, case studies and advice. |
| www.techdis.ac.uk |
Promotes good practice in ILT for FE and HE staff and students with disabilities. Offer advice and training on accessibility issues. |
