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The Employer-led Workplace Literacy Fund is now fully allocated. However, we still have some Workplace Literacy funding available for businesses. The strand we get is the TEO-led funding which is a great way for businesses to take some important first steps in addressing literacy and numeracy needs i

Workplace Literacy Fund for Employers A funding window has opened for the Workplace Literacy Fund for Employers. This  is for businesses who want to train their own staff in language, literacy and numeracy and it has historically been undersubscribed. It’s a great opportunity for businesses looki

OK, they  sound a bit pretentious but Grice’s Maxims are incredibly useful and they are four principles of communication that we keep coming back to them when we are working with learners in the workplace. Here they are: The maxim of quantity, where one tries to be as informative as one possibl

So many businesses are still unaware that there is funding available to help them develop the language, literacy and numeracy skills of their employees. We have Workplace Literacy Funding and often there is no invoiced cost for training eligible employees. It is als

A window has opened for employers to apply for the Employer Led Workplace Literacy Fund. The window closes again on the 15th February. This fund  is relevant for employers looking to upskill more than 50 employees on literacy and numeracy for a course of 40 hou

We’re pleased to have received an initial funding allocation from the TEC for  Workplace Literacy for 2013 and are looking for business partners for 2013. We’ve submitted our 2013 Investment Plan and you can  read it here. We’re interested in any feedback you have on this.

 Should intellectual property be a real concern for a business embarking in workplace literacy training? Yes, absolutely it should.  Often as a provider working in partnership with a business, we have access to information about business processes which is extremely sens

The funding stream we are working with the moment is the Workplace Literacy Fund which is administered by the Tertiary Education Commission. Under this fund, literacy providers, such as ourselves, have a number of pre-approved places they can allocate to businesses they are working with. Thi