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19 February 2010
A college in Oxford is helping to reduce unemployment in the county thanks to an innovative approach to finding jobs for students and the long-term unemployed.
A manager who brought e-learning and internet access to inmates at HMP Isle of Wight has had her efforts recognized with a prestigious national award. Sarah Snowdon, head of The Isle of Wight College’s access to learning department won the 2009 Learning and Skills Improvement Service (LSIS) STAR Award for innovation at a glittering national ceremony at Old Billingsgate, London.
12 February 2010
The council’s performance review panel looked into LSIS’s performance from July to September 2009 and here is a summary of the findings.
5 February 2010
LSIS is offering learning and skills providers the chance to acquaint themselves with the equalities aspect of Oftsed’s new common inspection framework through a new one-day course.
1 February 2010
LSIS launched its equality and diversity partnership programme at Friars House on Friday and heard from 17 projects nationwide which are being supported by LSIS to kick-off the scheme. Here is a brief taster of the first group of projects
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