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Merseytravel gets reading
Employees at Merseytravel are taking part in the Six Book Challenge for the second year running thanks to the efforts of Ya Ching Darnell, Corporate Partnership Support Assistant and ULR. Ya Ching spreads information about the Challenge using posters, emails...
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7 April 2010 by Genevieve Clarke
Transport for London takes on the Challenge
Learning Zone tutor Christine Brathwaite is running the Challenge for the second year running with Transport for London employees. Bob Cann, Performance Improvement Assessor with London Underground, is an enthusiastic participant. "A few years ago I found reading very difficult,"...
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7 April 2010 by Genevieve Clarke
Rochdale couple rise to the Challenge
Library workers Alison Copple and Pamela Taylor-Bramwell in Rochdale have told us about Rehana and Muhammed Saghir who completed the Six Book Challenge last year. Rochdale Libraries have worked extensively with family literacy worker Hanila Nadim and her colleagues who...
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7 April 2010 by Genevieve Clarke
Never too old to try!
Derbyshire Libraries are working with local workplaces in 2010 in addition to colleges and adult education. Gwen Gregory completed the Challenge through her class at Long Eaton in 2009. "At school I never really grasped reading and spelling, but it...
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10 March 2010 by Genevieve Clarke
Treloar College takes on the Challenge again
Treloar College, a specialist FE college for physically disabled young people in Hampshire, is doing the Challenge for the second time in 2010. Out of 50 students who started the Challenge in 2009, 30 completed it on time including Luke...
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10 March 2010 by Genevieve Clarke
Lilian gets into reading - and writing
Kath Morgan, a Skills for Life tutor who ran the Six Book Challenge very successfully at Bolton Community College in 2009 with students and employees from Warburtons Bakery, introduced us to one of her completers Lilian Vickers. "Because I'm dyslexic,...
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10 March 2010 by Genevieve Clarke
