Tribal CTAD awarded Move On Up
Tribal CTAD has been awarded £1.6m Move On Up contract.
Following successful management of the national Move On programme, Tribal CTAD has been commissioned by the Quality Improvement Agency (QIA) to implement Move On Up. The new project is designed to support the embedding and mainstreaming of Move On and to further develop and embed the Get On at work approach in the workplace, including stimulating progression on to further qualifications.
The £4.5m national Move On project was established in July 2003 to broaden the range of Skills for Life learners taking a national certificate in adult literacy and numeracy at Level 1 and 2, to diversify the learning menu, and to promote the value of the Skills for Life national qualifications. The DfES continued to fund the Move On project until the end of July 2006, when responsibility transferred to the QIA.
The Move On project has focused largely on brushing up learners to reach Level 1 and Level 2; Move On Up will explore appropriate development and dissemination of the Move On model for Entry 3 learners.
Move On Up will also activate and support the highly successful Test the Town / Test the Company approach to promoting and recruiting learners and supporting them to achieve qualifications, building up to a country-wide campaign.
‘The Move On project has been tremendously successful and has exceeded all of its targets. This positive and practical approach to engagement for achievement has contributed to over 800,000 National Tests in adult literacy and numeracy being taken since 2003, with more than 573,000 passes. The Move On approach has become a successful feature of many Skills for Life programmes, in colleges and learning centres of many kinds, in the workplace and on the internet.’
Neil Robertson, Head of the Skills for Life Strategy Unit at the DfES
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- 48,000 people are making use of the extensive range of free resources available at www.move-on.org.uk
- Nearly 76,000 people have been brushing up their skills on line through the Learner Route since it was launched a year ago. Many have been introduced to this Skills for Life e-learning facility by colleges and learning centres, others have been signposted to it by their employers and are learning independently. Their success rate is high, 87% for literacy and 81% for numeracy.
- More than 4,000 organisations have now adopted Move On, providers and learner organisations, employers and trade unions amongst them.
- Nearly 35,000 intermediaries (brokers, signposters, mentors, champions, front-line staff) now have an understanding of the national qualifications and how to use them to promote Skills for Life effectively as a result of taking part in Move On recruiter training.
- 5,000 active test centres are offering National Certificates in increasingly diverse locations, almost 50% of them with the flexibility of on-screen testing.