Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (2011)
This Equality Impact Assessment examines the potential effects on adult learners participating in English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) courses as a result of changes to policy concerning eligibility criteria for fee remission as set out within wider funding and structural reforms in Skills for Sustainable Growth and
E. and A. Williams for CfBT Education Trust (2007)
The report provides an overview of provision of English language teaching in the ESOL and EFL sectors and recommends the two should be amalgamated.
This document reviews the provision for vocational training for 14-19 year-olds. One of its key recommendations is that ‘post-16, English and Mathematics should be a required component of study programmes for those without good GCSEs in these subjects’.
OECD PISA studies have shown that migrant students in most OECD countries tend to have lower education outcomes than their native peers. This paper looks at the ways in which education policies can influence factors at system, school and individual level to help provide better educational opportunities for migrant students. The educational levels covered are pre-school, primary and secondary school. The main focus is on first- and second-generation migrants enrolled in these levels of education. “First-generation migrants” refers to those children who were born abroad and whose parents were also born abroad, while “second-generation migrants” refers to those children who were themselves born inside the receiving country but whose parents were born abroad.
This project developed methods to enable managers and practitioners in mainstream employment services to recognise and audit the skills and qualifications that migrants, who are third-country nationals, have acquired prior to their arrival in the EU, in order that such services can support the social and vocational integration of migrants. The methods developed by the IMPACT project partners from five countries are described in this training resource.
This new book from ESOL Nexus is about the role of language in the integration of migrants. The writers of the chapters are all engaged in the education of migrants as teachers, researchers or policymakers in a wide variety of contexts and they provide us with a rich and thought-provoking array of perspectives from teachers and learners on language issues in migration and integration. Through them we hear directly from learners, migrants who have arrived in a new country and are now striving to master the host language. We learn much from them about the place of language and language learning in their new lives.
This publication will interest and stimulate anyone who is involved in planning and providing education and training for teachers of English before they take up their positions in educational institutions
Insightshare carried out an evaluation project for ESOL Nexus using Participatory Video and the Most Significant Change technique. This video is a summary of the process with highlights from the 10 videos.
This article describes ways of motivating teenagers using poetry.
In the first part of this two part article Shaun Dowling looks at delexicalised verbs, and the problems they cause for our students.