Archived News

Charity Bike Ride - St Marcellin Children's Village in Zimbabwe

This summer, the Learning Assistant Team cycled 40 miles through the rolling countryside of Kent, to raise money and awareness for the St Marcellin Children’s Village in Zimbabwe.

RSC Events - Summer Conference

RSC Yorkshire & Humber – Summer Conference – 2nd June 2009
Learning Assistant exhibited at this annual event, which saw managers and practitioners from across the entire Post-16 FE and Skills sector come together to showcase, develop and discover learning technology.

Charity Bike Ride - British Heart Foundation

The Learning Assistant Team raised over £1450 for the British Heart Foundation by taking part in the London to Brighton Bike Ride 2008!

BACH / fforwm Construction Conference – Caersws, Wales

BACH (the British Association of Construction Heads) and fforwm(the national organisation representing the 23 further education (FE) colleges and two FE institutions in Wales) are holding a two day conference in mid Wales on Thurs 14 and Fri 15 May. Learning Assistant is attending.

RSC Events

RSC London - e-Portfolios: Drivers for teaching and learning
Richmond Upon Thames College went through a rigorous evaluation of a number of e-portfolio systems, before choosing Learning Assistant.

Edexcel Approval

Learning Assistant achieved approval from the Awarding Body Edexcel in summer 2007. We look forward to furthering our relationship with Edexcel.

Learning Assistant's e-portfolio solution is publicly supported by awarding bodies Edexcel, OCR and City & Guilds.

RSC South East's e-Learning Fair 2008

Learning Assistant will be exhibiting at the RSC South East's e-Learning Fair 2008 in Falmer, Brighton on Thursday 30th October.

This year's e-Learning Fair has 20 exhibitors, including BBC Motion Gallery, Eduprint, Qwizdom and the Excellence Gateway. The keynote speaker is Robin Christopherson, Head of Accessibility Services at AblityNet. There will also be 12 presentations from 'Personalisation of Learning' to 'Free Technology for Inclusion'.

ALP Autumn Conference 2008

Why not come and meet Learning Assistant?

Learning Assistant will be exhibiting at the ALP Autumn Conference 2008 in Telford on Monday 27th and Tuesday 28th October.

There will be over 20 exhibitors, and in addition to the main plenary sessions, there will be 48 workshops over the two days.

ABC Awards Youth Work Roadshow

ABC Awards is planning a series of Youth Work qualification events which will be held nationally throughout March and April 2007.

Moray Firth Media Trust

Moray Firth Media Trust (MFMT) was set up in 1999 to meet a demand for training in radio broadcasting. MFMT aims to deliver quality training, short courses and work experience to people who are interested in getting ahead in radio.

LSC pilot suggests Learning Assistant could help slash £1bn of waste

Times Educational Supplement, 7th Apr 2006:
Electronic, rather than paper, portfolios for vocational courses save money and boost achievement, LSC pilot suggests

New user type makes using Learning Assistant even easier.

In order to simplify the login process for customers, existing Coach's/Assessor's and Internal Verifier's user accounts will be replaced by a single user license called "Trainer". This new user type is capable of all of the duties previously available to Coaches, Assessors and Internal Verifiers

CTS integration module under development with Scottish Enterprise

Learning Assistant are pleased to announce that we are among a select group of e-learning suppliers chosen by Scottish Enterprise's to develop an integration module for their CTS (Corporate Training System). CTS is an online funding claim management system that allows training providers to access funding from the public sector against agreed milestones. The proposed integration with Learning Assistant will offer our customers a much improved workflow for managing both systems and should help to remove much of the administrative burden of dealing with claims. Proposed launch dates to be announced in the near future.