Help with the basics
Can you help with the basics?
Local people all over Edinburgh have an opportunity to
help raise adult literacy and numeracy levels in their own areas.
Volunteers are being recruited by Adult Basic
Education to help support adults who are developing their everyday
reading, writing and number skills.
Run by Community Education's Community Based Adult
Learning Teams, groups are based in venues all over the City - north,
south, east and west - and offer students both daytime and evening
provision.
Some groups also include people who want to develop
their ICT skills, people who are deaf and hard of hearing and people
with learning disabilities.
The next information evening for people who would like
to become Volunteer Tutors is Monday, 3rd September 2001. Anyone
interested in attending this should contact Mary for an application form
as soon as possible at South Bridge Resource Centre, Infirmary Street on
0131 558 8222.
Further information and requests for application forms
can be found at the ABE web site - www.abe.edin.org.
This latest recruitment and training of Volunteer
Tutors follows close on the heels of the recently published report
'Adult Literacy and Numeracy in Scotland'. Research conducted by the
Adult Literacy Team for the Report estimates that 800,000 adults in
Scotland have very low literacy and numeracy skills.
Set up last year by Henry McLeish, then Lifelong
Learning Minister, the Team point out in the Report that literacy and
numeracy skills are 'critical for adults to achieve the goals they set
themselves at work, at home, in the community and as learners'.
The Report looks at the development of a national
strategy to boost adult literacy and numeracy levels, this being
'acutely important to the wide variety of Scottish Executive policies
that promote social justice, health, economic development and lifelong
learning'.
Adult Literacy and Numeracy in Scotland is available
at www.scotland.gov.
uk/who/elld/alt.asp
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