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CANCELLED: fbfe West Midlands FE Faith forum joint meeting with West Midlands FE Faith Awareness Forum: 1st February 2012. Follow this link for venue details.
fbfe Merseyside FE Faith Forum: Tuesday 28th February 2012. Follow this link for venue details.
fbfe West/South Yorkshire FE Faith Forum : 1st March 2012. Follow this link for venue details. JOINT: North / East Yorkshire & Humberside FE Faith Forum: Friday 1st Marchheld with West / South Yorkshire at Norton College.
fbfe SE FE Faith Forum : 7th March 2012 Follow this link for venue details.
fbfe Greater Manchester Chaplaincy Neighbours Faith Forum : Tuesday 13th March 2012 Follow this link for venue details.
fbfe Cumbrian FE and HE Faith Forum : Friday 16th March 2012 Follow this link for venue details.
fbfe East of England FE Faith Forum: 22nd March 2012. Follow this link for venue details.
North East FE Faith Forum: Thursday 29th March 2012. Follow this link for venue details.
fbfe London FE Faith Forum : 15th May 2012. Follow this link for venue details.
Lancashire FE Faith Forum: 2012 TBC. Follow this link for venue details.
fbfe East Midlands FE Faith Forum: 19th January 2012. Follow this link for venue details.
FOCUS: Guidance for Spiritual, Moral, Social and Cultural Education
Click the link for Powerpoint presentations from the day.
Welcome to fbfe – the National Council of Faiths and Beliefs in Further Education. fbfe is a national independent inter-faith charity working with the learning and skills sector, faith and local communities and national and local faith/belief based groups.
During 2011 fbfe and the RE Council for England and Wales worked with colleges in London and the North West to produce curriculum materials to support the implementation of the SMSC guidance in both accredited and enrichment learning activities. Please follow this link, where you will find how four colleges are implementing SMSC into their college.
NUS have produced Good Inter Faith Relations on Campus: A toolkit for students’ unions, as part of their Student Inter Faith Project (2009-2011). Each students' union will receive a hard copy of the toolkit in the next week or so. In the meantime you can download a copy of the toolkit here (http://www.nusconnect.org.uk/news/article/faith/1834/).
This toolkit has been written as a source of support and guidance to help students’ unions:
consider the issues in the wider context and the role of the students’ union to support the building of good inter faith relations assess the state of existing inter faith relations and resources at your college develop a plan for supporting good inter faith relations; and
organise regular student-led inter faith activities
The toolkit provides a series of case studies and exercises to illustrate effective models of engagement with faith groups; provide inspiration for your own events and projects; and help you to organise these. We have encouraged officers to work with you and the college chaplain to think through how they can make this a part of their unions work using the toolkit as a guide. To support you in your journey to building good inter faith relations at your college, the Student Interfaith Coordinator, Kat Luckock (kat.luckock@nus.org.uk) is available to support you with further information as required. NUS and fbfe will also be organising a conference-style training event for staff, chaplains and students’ union officers in colleges later in the summer (further details to follow).
Guidance Report
Advancing Equality and Diversity and Implementing disability equality are new online learning programmes from LSIS developed with the involvement of organisations and learning providers in the Learning and Skills sector. Click the link to visit our videos page to see the videos.
Guidance for colleges and providers
LSC guidance on equality and diversity and self assessment, follow this link to download a copy.
fbfe have worked closely with LSiS to produce the guidance. Follow SMSC Guidance Link here.
Click on these links to view the Guidance or research Report: