Extraordinary General Meeting – 12^th February 'The Emerging Context for CLCs - planning for our future' - CLC Managers' Event

The aim of the above event in Birmingham  is to start us thinking about possible future models of operation for our centres, and to consider some scenarios and responses to them. Obviously until there has been a general election and/or the next Comprehensive Spending Review (CSR), we won't know the context, but it is important to start preparing in a positive way for changes on the horizon.

The event will take place at Austin Court – for details please follow this link:-

http://austincourt.theiet.org/

Booking Your Place

The booking system is sited in Nottingham, so  apologies for the Nottingham branding and the fact that Martin is listed as the course facilitator – it’s just to get us up and running at no cost

You can register your attendance below by selecting to register for the event or alternatively go to www.nelc.net/courses and look on the list for course ‘NCLC1 Extraordinary General Meeting’. When filling in the on-line details for ‘organisation’ just select ‘test’. You should receive immediate confirmation by e-mail.

Other details

Conference costs on the day will be covered by the Midlands South West region, but you will need to make arrangements for travel and accommodation if required.

Format of the day

The final programme will be determined by the end of the month, but it is scheduled to be a day of discussion with short keynote input from our colleagues in Becta, and possibly other relevant partners. If you have any suggestions for content or approaches on the day please don’t hesitate to send them to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it who will represent them in the planning meeting.

You can also use the Forums on the website and the comments section below to add any suggestions or discuss anything you would like to raise.

The day will be designed to have relevance for all circumstances, for example whether you work closely with your host school, are integrated into your local authority or deliver services for BSF or 14-19. Our colleagues at Becta have also offered to assist us for the day and we look forward to their participation. It is intended to focus positively on sharing our success stories, whether it be involvement in commissioning activities, the development of commercial models of operation, delivery of training through sold services or working regionally.

It is also proposed that part of the day’s business will be to consider 4 possible scenarios:-

• • No funding scenario

  • Partial funding scenario

  • Continued funding scenario

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    One other (tba) e.g. change of core function

    
    

     To get the widest participation we are supporting the day with the 'Quick Feedback' system that Richard Clarkson from Leicester is using very successfully in his LA. This will enable those few colleagues who are unable to attend physically to contribute to the day.  
    

    Thank you to all CLC managers who have responded to Roger Neilson’s short on-line survey. If you haven’t yet seen it please follow this link:- 
    

    https://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=dDRSVkZIbTg2M05iS3p2MzE1OUJzYmc6MA 
    

    It should be emphasised that the figures requested can be guesstimates - please don't feel you have to start number crunching!  
    

In the news recently its become more and more evident that Internet Explorer is not upto the job as your default choice for internet browsing. It seems that Internet Explorer was exploited in order to gain access to many Chinese Email accounts that the Chinese government felt needed to be monitored. Below is a link to the BBC article regarding the Chinese Google Hack.

BBC Article -Microsoft admits Explorer used in Google China hack

As a result of this Microsoft has stated it will be releasing a security update , HOWEVER both French and German Governments have released statements that advise everyone to stop using Internet Explorer to keep themselves as secure as possible .

Please Note : This exploit is present from IE6 all the way through to IE8 so upgrading IE will not remove the problem or reduce the chances of a potential security breach.

Below are articles regarding statements from both the French and German Governments regarding the security of IE and advise all internet users to stop using Internet Explorer

French Statement - France joins Germany warning against Internet Explorer

German Statement- German government warns against using MS Explorer

I would recommend that all users of this site upgrade or change to Firefox or Opera browsers to be as secure as possible.

Hope everybody is enjoying the new look and it is going smoothly for all users

Blogs :

We would also like to add that if you would like your blog imported to the site please message me your blog rss url so that we can import your feed into the site . We would however state that this would not occur on a regular basis and would be a one off so if anyone wishes to import their blog and begin hosting their blog from NCLCN feel free to message us.

New Twitter Feature :

New twitter feature has also been integrated into the site this is currently in its alpha stages however it allows real time discussions of the NCLCN twitter feeds. This would mean that if any CLC would like their twitter post to be visible on the NCLCN feed simple add @nclcn to the beginning of your twitter post and it will appear on the NCLCN feed.

Feedback :

We would be very eager to hear peoples feedback either via the poll on the left, the forums , via the comment link below or even via a personal message . Any improvements that people feel can be made to the site . We currently really only have a few major requests for upgrades if anyone else feels that they have an idea feel free to let us know .

Administrator : -)

There will be a new look to the website very soon I will put a post in the forum and poll up to see how people compare it to the orignal look and feel of the website general navigation will remain the same however the layout and look may be slightly different.

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If any manager would like to have an account specifically for hosting thier CLC blog off please let me know and I can create one for you. This would mean creating a user such as Central Birmingham CLC in order to post blogs from which can then feed back to your site.