Scottish Information Literacy Project

Just back from a 2 day JISC Regional South West Summer Conference – The Learner Experience where John and I were asked to do a presentation about the project  - initial feedback from the organisers is that it was well received. We shared the presentation slot with Exeter College talking about their information literacy work, issues [...]

The Scottish Information Literacy Project has been awarded funding by Learning and Teaching Scotland to work with Learning and Teaching Scotland in an area which is a key area for both Learning and Teaching Scotland and the Scottish Information Literacy Project. One of the Project’s ‘products’ is the first draft  of the National Information Literacy [...]

This was the title of a Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (Scotland) (CILIPS) conference, held at Glasgow Metropolitan College, on Thursday 19th March and was chaired by Christine and me.  It was inspired by the Skills for Scotland policy document, published in October 2007 and reviewed the role of information literacy in skills [...]

Forgot this from our report on the trip to Sheffield. Seminar with post graduate students. Thanks to Sheila Webber for the photo – see also Sheila’s blog about our visit.

On Monday 16th March I attended the Alliance of Sector Skills Councils Employer Conference held at Murrayfield Stadium, Edinburgh. All sector skills were represented and I joined the Lifelong Learning table. This sector covers community learning, FE/HE, Libraries, archives and information services and work based learning. The morning was taken up with the views of [...]

Discussions and presentations with staff and students at Sheffield University, Department of Information Studies         On Wednesday 11th March we were off to Sheffield at the request of Sheila Corrall and Sheila Webber of the Department of Information studies at Sheffield University to do some work with students. On the morning of [...]

  We have both had our heads down for a while with backroom matters hence the lack of postings but we were out and about last week. On Tuesday 10th March we attended the National Literacy Conference, held at the Hilton Hotel in Glasgow. We had been invited by the Literacy Team of the Curriculum [...]

On Tuesday 17th February Christine and I went to Aberdeen to visit David Gibbons – Wood, a senior lecturer in the Business School at Robert Gordon University who has obtained over £400,000 in European funding to run training programmes for SMEs in the Aberdeen area. So far he has enrolled 20 businesses that are providing [...]

I have been reading the recently published Skills utilisation literature review, a report by CFE for the Education Analytical Services, Lifelong Learning Research, Scottish Government (Executive summary and full text vailable at http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2008/12/15114643/0) which aims ‘to bring together evidence on the topic of skills utilisation to provide a clear picture of the nature and extent [...]

This is the first blog of 2009 and I have delayed writing until I had something to report.   We got our first statistics report earlier this month which showed that the blog had been visited 1,086 times between December 13th, 2008 and January 12th 2009. There was a peak of activity about mid December with [...]