How Apprenticeships Can Help to Close the Gender Gap in IT

How Apprenticeships Can Help to Close the Gender Gap in IT How many of your IT department are female? Are You Struggling to Recruit the Right People for Specialist Digital Roles? Recent research has pointed to a growing skills crisis throughout the UK’s digital industries; there simply are not enough people with the right skills. […]
Skills Minister Welcomes Leading 3rd Sector Provider’s Approach to Supporting Students Back into Work

Skills Minister Welcomes Leading 3rd Sector Provider’s Approach to Supporting Students Back into Work ELATT, East London’s only Grade 1 FE provider, welcomed the Minister for Skills and Apprenticeships, Rt Hon Anne Milton MP, to their newly-renovated Hackney learning centre today. In her first formal engagement since last week’s reshuffle, the Minister met ELATT staff […]
Literacy Writing: I know why the caged bird sings

Literacy Writing: I know why the caged bird sings Students from IT for ESOL 3506 class at ELATT got their creative powers flowing by writing some poetry.Their poetry was inspired by the works of Maya Angelou. The world –renowned author, poet and civil rights activist.Segs Fayase, their teacher, said: “It was so inspiring to see […]
Capability Workshop Dec 2017

Capability Workshop Dec 2017 We had our Capability workshop on Thursday 7th December 2017 at 10am-12pm at Simple Gifts, 117 Mansford St, Basement Suite, London E1 6LX.We had the opportunity to try out some amazing experiences in activities. The activities included: Massaging Henna Guitar Playing Makeup Hair Styling Sewing Nail Art Mini Facials Language Exchange […]
Coffee morning raising money for Macmillan Cancer in the Bethel Church

Coffee morning raising money for Macmillan Cancer in the Bethel Church Two months ago on Friday 29 of September 2017 at 11 am we went to 242 Hoxton St N1. We went to a coffee morning in the church with our teacher. Because every slice of cake and cup of tea and coffee help us […]
Housing Campaign 2017

Housing Campaign 2017 Today we are writing about housing problems in Hackney. Many people are suffering with some bad conditions. People are living in damp house, and they paying high rent, gas and electricity. Some houses have water leaking from the ceiling. People need to gather to campaign to the government so that they make […]
Trip – Museum of London 2017

Trip – Museum of London 2017 I want to write about our volunteering visit to Museum of London on 12 /10/17. We walked with my classes 15 minutes to Mortimer Wheeler House. When we got to the Museum of London we met officials and they told us information about the museum. They started to show […]
ELATT shortlisted for the Lord Mayor’s Dragon Award

ELATT shortlisted for the Lord Mayor’s Dragon Award ELATT was thrilled to be shortlisted for the Lord Mayor’s Dragon Award Community Partnership Award for its partnership with leading tech firm Opus 2 International. Following an introduction by volunteer brokerage, City Action, ELATT partnered with Opus 2 International to equip Londoners with the relevant digital skills […]
Student Celebration Day 2017

Student Celebration Day 2017 On Wednesday 19th July we hosted another fantastic student celebration day event. The day started off with a series of workshops held by ELATT staff and our amazing volunteers from Lloyds Bank who kindly hosted two workshops; cyber security and mobile savviness. Crowdskills also hosted a workshop in entrepreneulism which interested […]
Community learning is the key for post-Brexit Britain

Community learning is the key for post-Brexit Britain In June 2017 Anthony (ELATT, Chief Executive) was featured in TES online. Check out his inspirational thought piece now… Community learning is the key for post-Brexit Britain “Tes subscribers can read the full version of Anthony’s article here. For the latest news and views about the FE […]