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New Skills for Life strategy launched

Further Education Minister, Sion Simon has unveiled a package of new measures designed to improve literacy and numeracy skills of one million adults, including a new drive to ensure Skills for Life training to assist people in developing the skills they n
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The new strategy, which builds upon the Skills for Life strategy launched in 2001, will also look at what is being done to enable people to do Skills for Life training whilst learning other vocational training and to make Skills for Life training more flexible.

CALL for adult education

Meanwhile, the Campaigning Alliance for Lifelong Learning (CALL), which was founded by NUS, NIACE, UNISON, UCU and WEA, now has 167 MPs signed up to defend adult education cuts following the loss of more than 1.4 million places since 2005.