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Revisiting RARPA RARPA - Recognising & Recording Progress & Achievement “RARPA” (Recognising and Recording Progress and Achievement) was developed many years ago, as a set of tools and approaches to validate learning within programmes that did not lead to accredited qualification outcome. For many “RARPA” seems to have been largely forgotten or overlooked This is unfortunate because the principles of RARPA and its approaches to measuring, tracking and evidencing progress and achievement still hold good today.  Not only do they provide immense value within non accredited programmes they also offer significant scope for enhancing learning and quality assurance within accredited programmes too.  Modern day RARPA allows tutors and students to agree targets, milestones and how robust evidence can be gathered. In doing so evidence of starting points, progress and competence is collected and by using evidence that relates closely to assessment criteria accredited programme

Anti Bullying week 2015 runs from 16th to 20th November 2015. Now is the perfect time to provide refresher training to management and staff on what bullying looks like and how they can help identify and prevent it. Concrew Training's one day course on Combating Bullying and Harassment is designed to meet these needs Course Overview - Combating Bullying and Harrassment Understand the issues better:

Concrew Training has been highlighting the need for equal pay audits for some time now and the deadline is drawing close. Despite the voluntary reporting initiative being introduced in 2011 less than half a dozen companies have actually published details of their pay gender gap. On 6th March the Government announced that they would move towards introducing mandatory reporting; these new measures will be introduced in 2016. today 14 July 2015 saw the launch of a consultation on and around the details.   More information here   The consultation closes in 06 September so interested parties need to respond quickly.  Introducing Equal Pay auditing and reporting can be complex and those organisations affected, ie with more than 250 employees, need to start planning now.   Concrew Training are pleased to be able to offer high value training and consultancy in this area.   Please contact us for more information #hr #humanresources #unions #equalpay #gender

Despite unemployment rates showing ongoing improvements cut backs and redundancies are still commonplace.   A walk down the high street shows how many retail operations have been affected with many well known names now gone but its far more than the high street that is affected, redundancies are taking place across most sectors, news, banking, media, education, gas and oil. The laws that impact on and around consultation on redundancy can be complex to understand and interpret especially in real workplace situations. Most redundancy situations require effective consultation with employees and/or their representatives, there are clear benefits to be had from having an effective employee representative team in place before redundancies are needed. Concrew Training offers generic training for Employee Representatives as well as training related more closely to redundancy situations The Effective Employee Representative Redundancy Training for Employee Representatives #hr #hum

Concrew Training is pleased to announce a new one-day workshop on Facilitating Training Groups. In this one-day fast paced workshop delegates learn the who what why, when and where of effective f ocus groups and leave feeling better able and equipped to deliver highly effective focus group meetings – whatever their sector. More information >>>> #hr #fe #gov #humanresources #furthereducation #research #marketing

Book any of Concrew Trainings one-day courses to run in August 2015 and get 15% of our advertised prices #fe #furthereducation #schools #teachers

Many students, especially those learning at entry levels, find working independently challenging.  When faced with an unfamiliar problems they often have difficulties in to conceptualising the issues and working out which techniques to apply, when and how in order to deliver effective solutions This is presents difficulties during in real life and exam situations.  By adopting a more andragogical approach to teaching, ie one that focusses more on the development of independent thinking skills, collaborative learning, problem-solving and team building strategies, teachers, trainers and tutors can provide better more effective support to students This new one-day workshop from Concrew Training explores the strategies and approaches that teachers trainers and tutors can use.  One's which seek to unpack exam questions, identify ways of achieving higher exam marks and help to create practical activities which will allow maths and English to be taught in a more relevant manner,