November EC Meeting 2019

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AV Equipment.

State of the art AV equipment has been ordered for the hotel and the GFTU Classrooms. I understand that this arrives in the new year.

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Hotel use of classrooms

Hotel use of the classrooms has been recharged. The GFTU will now undertake the bookings for our classrooms.

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Interesting training events.

We are increasingly asked to participate in training events. Over recent months I was asked to speak at the Wigan Diggers’ Festival on the works of Gerard Winstanley, which was a well attended and enjoyable event in the church where he was baptised. I was also asked to speak at the excellent festival of reading in Leicester now in its tenth year on the novels of William Ash. These events are added to the education statistics. We have successfully bid to become the End Point Assessment Organisation of the training providers for the trade union officials’ apprenticeship. This is likely to be launched now in March 2020. We have bid for a fee of £2,000 for each assessment undertaken. We do not know if this will be accepted. Assessments require trained assessors and will be monitored by a quality standards body. Assessment will be a mix of reading portfolios of students and interviews and are likely to take place all over the country. This will create a new funding stream for the GFTU in 2021. 15 Trade Union Officials Apprenticeship.

Prior to then we will need to train a cohort of assessors.

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Training the trainers.

A further tranche of the training the trainers course was delivered to 15 PCS members at Quorn by colleagues from the youth and community department at Leeds Beckett University. Once again this was very successful.

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Workers Educational Association.

A new Chief Executive has been elected. Simon Parkinson, currently at the Co oP College, and we will seek to establish a relationship.

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GMB Outreach.

A very imaginative community education project run from St Anthony’s Catholic Church in Trafford Park Manchester and in conjunction with the GMB Union has visited us and we believe there are several areas for future joint working. A further report to follow.

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Win Win Services.

We are constantly reviewing and seeking to expand our services to unions. A consolidating meeting will be held at the end of January.

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