Climbing Frame has been designed for Union Learning Reps (ULRs) to assist them in their roles of supporting workplace learners and bringing learning into work. It can be used to:

• Provide current information to URLs and learners
• Develop learner action plans
• Support the transfer and sharing of learner skills and experience
• Record progress in learner sessions
• Gather information on learner profiles and use these to support negotiations with employers
• Store contacts and other information

Climbing Frame can be accessed on a website or through an app. It also provides learning through a series of topics and themes, which include:

• Supporting learners
• Higher learning
• Equality, diversity and learning
• Personal development and career planning

ULRs are also able to access news, case studies and explore a wide range of links to other useful further reading.

You might also be interested in:

• Entrepreneurship in Education – Background paper (resource) – The European Commission, OECD and LEED collaborated to produce a paper focused on the benefits of teaching entrepreneurship
• Drive value from your data in further education – recorded webinar by Capita and Education Technology Magazine (resource) – a 45-minute webinar that considers how educational institutions and organisations can drive value from their Further Education data
• Public libraries and their roles and work in inclusion and learning (blog) – summarises an Erasmus+ study visit to Bergen in Norway and focuses on public libraries as inclusive learning arenas
• Universities and cyber crime – keep student and staff data under lock and key (blog) – discusses how educational institutions can become the target of data theft and provides advice on protecting university computer systems