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| SOL - Self Organised Learning: Contact |
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Organisation name: |
CSOL |
Short title: |
SOL - Self Organised Learning |
Type of tool: |
Social inclusion |
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Contact person: |
Nick Crowder |
Postal address: |
PO BOX 2528
Reading
RG1 5ZT
U.K |
Phone: |
0870 760 7462 |
Fax: |
0870 705 1727 |
Email address: |
mail@selforganisedlearning.com |
Web site: |
www.selforganisedlearning.com |
Development Partner (DP): |
i-WORK |
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About the organisation:- |
Status: |
CSOL works in partnership with: CSHL and i-WORK.
(The Centre For The Study Of Human Learning) has pioneered through 25 years of action research, the original and radical approach, called Self-Organised Learning (SOL) and the methodology of Learning Conversations for empowering people to increase their capacity for life-long learning.
CSOL receives funding from EQUAL for its i-WORK project to innovatively develop and test the application of SOL as a means of combating discrimination and inequalities in the labour market. This has enabled CSOL to implement and test SOL with people on the margins of society such as ex-offenders, the long term unemployed and those returning to employment whilst recovering from life controlling addictions.
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Mission: |
- Supporting commercial and social organisations to build effective Self-Organised Learning environments.
- Empowering people to develop their skills, competences, and creativity through the unique methodology of Self-Organised Learning.
- Spreading the experience and knowledge of Self-Organised Learning through the establishment of the College of Self-Organised Learning Global Network. |
Means & organisation: |
CSOL is not part of any other organisations. |
Local socioeconomic situation: |
Reading is a prosperous city with very low unemployment (0.8%)and has attracted many prestigious companies to be based here. Situated on M4 corridor (near Heathrow airport), it is a good logistics centre and has developed a thriving IT community. The city bounds are confined by the river Thames, and Reading can only grow within its already tight confines.
Increasingly, Reading workforce is drawn from wider and wider geographical area and to undertake the proposed construction alone in the city, Reading could employ every construction worker within a 200-mile radius.
The local Council recognises the problems that the lack of available workers, and an aging workforce present. Having commuters from wider and wider area puts a big strain on the city's infrastructure, housing and public services. It is more logical to engage the latent potential workforce already living within the city. These people already have housing and can use local transportation to access employment. Hidden workforce consists of ca 8-10,000 people: those on incapacity benefit, disabled, long-term unemployed, lone parents, mature workers, those excluded from employment due to their history, e.g., ex-offenders, ex-drug abusers. |
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English |
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