This key skill focuses on the ways in which you receive and respond to information and communicate with other people in your work, study and everyday life. Communication skills include speaking, listening, reading and writing for different purposes. Techniques such as note taking and writing summaries are important, but so, too, are the techniques of evaluation and application, such as evaluating the relevance and quality of information. More...

This duo of resources shows how to manage your reading including reading strategies and speed reading. The second resource looks at how to develop critical reading skills.
Both resources are available online on the skills@library website:
http://library.leeds.ac.uk/tutorials/activities/reading/managing-your-re...
http://library.leeds.ac.uk/tutorials/activities/reading/critical-reading/. More...

A rich bank of four resources about how to improve presentation skills. The resources look at:
- planning to present including creating a planning schedule
- preparing to present, including presentation techniques
- practising presenting, including managing nerves
- delivering presentations, including interacting with your audience
There are further help resources provided and self assessment activities. Resources can be found on the skills@library website:
http://library.leeds.ac.uk/skills-presentation. More...

The attachment to this letter provides, in a Question and Answer (Q&A) format, guidance to institutions regarding the eligibility of competency-based education programs, which include direct assessment programs, under existing statutory and regulatory requirements for the Title IV, Higher Education Act of 1965, as amended (HEA) student assistance programs...
Q13    Since students generally progress in competency-based programs at their own pace, how are the Return of Title IV Funds (R2T4) provisions to be implemented when there are no established start and end dates for competencies?
A13    Because of the self-paced nature of CBE programs, we consider the time when a student is enrolled in a competency to be, for Title IV R2T4 purposes, a module.  We consider a CBE module to have begun when the student began working toward demonstrating mastery of the competency and ending when the student has successfully demonstrated mastery.  An institution must have a mechanism for determining and documenting that a student has begun attendance in a payment period by working toward one or more competencies. More...

Second-chance education was the theme of this year’s annual conference of the Swiss Network for Education and International Cooperation (Réseau Suisse Education et Coopération Internationale, RECI), held in Bern on 3 November 2014.  The conference consisted of presentations on projects conducted by non-governmental organisations, regional networks and universities, including Action Aid, Foundation for the Education of Children in Africa and the University of Geneva.
For more information, please see the conference programme (in German). More...

Eclairage n° 35 décembre 2014 | L’Europe, levier pour les compétences ?
Crefor Haute - Normandie / Pôle information - décembre 2014
Conception - réalisation : Emmanuel Christain.
Avant-propos
Une nouvelle période 2014 - 2020 s’ouvre pour les politiques européennes, avec en particulier une nouvelle organisation des fonds européens (FSE,...). Il est essentiel d’informer les acteurs et les professionnels concernés sur les orientations régionales qui s’inscrivent dans le cadre européen et leur faire mieux connaître les dispositifs européens emploi formation en termes de mobilités professionnelles en s’appuyant sur des témoignages et des exemples concrets. Ce nouveau numéro d'Eclairage accompagne les participants de la Journée Emploi Formation organisée le 11 décembre 2014 à la faculté de droit et sciences économiques de Rouen.
Après une présentation de la stratégie Europe 2020 et du cadre général de la nouvelle programmation FSE, ce dossier présente d'abord le programme opérationnel FSE en Haute-Normandie. Il aborde ensuite successivement la stratégie européenne pour la lutte contre l’illettrisme, le cadre européen de certifications et le système européen de crédit d'apprentissages pour l'enseignement et la formation professionnels (ECVET). Enfin il explore quelques outils au service de la mobilité des citoyens européens avant un zoom particulier sur les aides régionales à la mobilité des Haut-Normands. Voir la suite dans l'Eclairage n° 35 décembre 2014 | L’Europe, levier pour les compétences.