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Video from yesterday’s fringe at TUC Congress
The following short film on cuts to adult learning in Liverpool was shown at yesterday’s successful fringe meeting at TUC Congress.
Event: CALL fringe at TUC Congress Liverpool
Date: 16th September, 12.45pm to 2pm
Venue: Room 4a In the Convention Centre where the TUC is being held.
Price: free, refreshments provided.
The fringe will be chaired by Maire Daley UCU NEC and Chair of UCU Education and active member of the Save Adult Further Education campaign (SAFE) in Liverpool. It will feature speakers from WEA, NUS, UCU, NIACE and Unison and a short film made by students of Liverpool College on how cuts are affecting their education.
Event: Defend Education, Defend Jobs: CALL gig (London)
Venue: The Cross Kings, 126 York Way, London N1 0AX
Date: 23rd May, evening.
Cost: £5, £3 concessions. All proceeds to CALL.
Featuring: Motiv, Radio Revolucion, The Amigans, UCU All Stars, Matt Dolphin, the Carbon Town Cryer, DJ Sonic Truth and Bard Stupid.
Organised by the UCU branches at Community Education Lewisham, Hackney Community College and Lambeth College.
Download the event’s flyer here (.doc, 231kb).
Event: Cardiff University to cut Lifelong Learning, meeting tonight
Venue: Room M1.02, Cardiff University
Date: Today, 27 April 2008: 5.30pm-6.30pm
Cardiff University has announced a proposal to close most of the subject areas in one of its oldest and most respected departments only months after publishing a book detailing its history and extolling its virtues.
If the proposal is implemented then this will radically reduce the Centre, scrapping its entire Humanities provision, including literature, history and archaeology, music, creative writing, philosophy, art history, religion, photography and Welsh. The closure of the Centre will leave a huge hole in educational provision for the region with hundreds of adult learners unable to complete their studies and to fulfil their full potential. Neither senior academic staff at the Centre nor representatives of the part-time tutor and student groups were consulted before the announcement of the proposal on Monday 20th April (for more details click “Read the rest of this entry”).
This meeting will discuss the situation at Lifelong Learning and map out a plan of action. It’s open to anyone who is concerned by the proposal to cut all Humanities and Welsh teaching from the programme.
Please come and show your support, there will be opportunities for people to become more actively involved.
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Event: Beyond the Soundbite: the future of adult learning (Newcastle)
Venue: International Centre for Life, Newcastle upon Tyne
Date: Friday 1 May 2009, 10.00am – 3.30pm
Cost: free for WEA members and staff, costs apply for others (details available from the contact below).
Two of Britain’s top professors of adult learning will speak at a North East conference entitled Beyond the Soundbite: the future of adult learning.
Professor Jill Brunt, Chief Executive of the National Open College Network, and John Field, Professor of Life Long Learning at the University of Stirling, will address a conference arranged by the Workers’ Educational Association (WEA) to examine the Government’s White Paper on the future of adult learning, The Learning Revolution.
They will be joined by Felicity Mendelson, MBE, Senior Learning & Development Officer, Newcastle City Council, and Richard Bolsin, General Secretary of the WEA.
For more details, contact the WEA on 0191 212 6100 or northeast@wea.org.uk.
Seats still available on CALL lobby coaches
There are currently spare seats on two of the coaches that have been organised for the Lobby of Parliament this Wednesday.
- Coach 1: pick up and drop off in Plymouth, Exeter and Bournemouth
- Coach 2: pick up and drop off in Liverpool
If you’d like to reserve space on either coach please contact Beth Walker at beth.walker@nus.org.uk who will liaise with you directly about spaces.
If you are intending to drive up or are organising a coach and you too have spare seats, please do let Beth know and she will endeavour to get them filled.
Building for the lobby at Tower Hamlets College
CALL campaigners at Tower Hamlets College are building for the lobby on the Wednesday 25 February (see CALL Bulletin 8 for more details). They held a meeting in the college last week and are now sending a letter to all students encouraging them to talk to their teachers about attending the lobby.
You can download the letter here (doc, 28kb) if you want to adapt it for your use locally.
Event: Lobby David Lammy MP (London) POSTPONED
When: New date: Friday 13 February, 5-6pm (was the 6th)
Where: Tottenham Town Hall, Town Hall Approach Road London N15 4RY
Come and lobby David Lammy, Minister for Skills and Member of Parliament for Tottenham at this public meeting.
Event: CALL Meeting at City and Islington College (London)
Where: 8-42 Blackstock Rd, Finsbury Park, N4 2DG (near Finsbury Park tube/bus station).
When: Wednesday, 4 February at 4:00pm.
Speakers include: Sally Hunt, General Secretary of UCU; Paul Mackney, Director at NIACE; Sean Vernell, UCU activist.
For more details download the event’s flyer (pdf, 790kb).
For other local CALL activities please click on the “local activities“ button on the right hand side of this webpage.
Event: CALL presents… A night of music, poetry and comedy (London)
When: Friday 23rd January 2009 from 7pm.
Where: Montague Arms, 289 Queens Road, Peckham SE15 2PA
Featuring: Radio Revolucion — Michael Forrest — Tiger Blossom — The Amigans — The Brockley Rise Singers — The Carbon Town Crier, plus Jeremy McClintock, “Skills Guru” of Right Path Management unveils his pioneering TRAINFAME® programme.
For more details please see the event’s page on facebook or click on the poster.
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