West Midlands Region Building our Knowledge Skills for Life event
A presentation to new Learning and Skills Council regional staff about key messages and puzzles in Skills for Life over the next 2 years.  January 2007.

Where is all this reading and writing taking us? (388k)
As part of the 2005 Orange Book Festival Geoff Bateson gave a talk – in his usual style – looking at recent activity across the city and projecting some puzzles for the future. This document is an extended version of his talk.

Presentation to Basic Skills Networks in Australia 2004, August 2004 (36k)
In August 2004, in response to joint support from Australian Council for Adult Literacy and Adult Learning Australia, Geoff Bateson was delighted to be able to take part in a number of events across Australia and to present the work of the partnership to various audiences.

Remaining Puzzles, January 2004 (104k) This is a summary write-up of a workshop at the National Research and Development Centre 2004 conference ‘Researching Effective Practice in Adult Literacy, Language and Numeracy ’. This workshop was a joint presentation by Geoff Bateson (Core Skills Development Partnership) about the work still to be completed after several years of adult basic skills development in Birmingham, and Michael Cowan (Loyola University New Orleans) on the initial steps being taken to undertake partnership-based changes in New Orleans.

Moving the Mountain (Quicktime audio)
A whole-city approach to basic skills developments. In January 2003 Geoff Bateson, Partnership Manager of the Birmingham Core Skills Development Partnership, was pleased to be able to accept an invitation to present the work of the Partnership to various audiences in western Canada. September 2003.

Common messages spread widely, March 2004 (32k) Development staff from a range of organisations across Birmingham have identified the set of simple messages that recur time and again in their work. This set of generic prompts (for parents; young people; employees; adults seeking work or support) has been repeated in newsletters; in door to door leaflets; in targeted promotional material at sports grounds etc. The messages have been fed across into the material produced by different partners.