For Immediate Release
Unions are being asked to identify and nominate effective Union Learning Reps in Scotland in preparation for the 2012 STUC Helen Dowie Award for Lifelong Learning. Outstanding work in lifelong learning may include enabling learners in the workplace to access learning through effective negotiation and organising with employers, maximising participation at Learning at Work Days or other workplace learning events or more generally, being creative about organising and funding the kinds of learning people want to access.
The STUC established the Helen Dowie Award for Lifelong Learning in 2006 to recognise the outstanding efforts put forward by Union Learning Reps in workplaces throughout Scotland. It is part of the STUC Union Rep Awards, which consist of three awards: the STUC Helen Dowie Award for Lifelong Learning, the STUC One Workplace Equality Award and the STUC Frank Maguire Award for Health and Safety. The nomination process for the awards asks unions to identify lay activists who have excelled in the promotion of the workplace learning agenda, equalities or health and safety within their union, workplace or community.
Nominations are due on 27th January 2012. Information on past recipients of the STUC Helen Dowie Award for Lifelong Learning, as well as nomination forms, can be found by visiting www.scottishunionlearning.com/support/helen-dowie-award.
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