Trade unions have historically been involved in education and
training in the workplace. This activity has gained greater
credence and importance in the United Kingdom, New Zealand and
Denmark due to the recent emergence of union learning
representatives (ULRs) and Educational Ambassadors, who are a new
category of trained, accredited and unpaid lay representatives
based in the workplace. Their key role is to give advice and
guidance to colleagues in relation to professional development,
learning and training opportunities available.
These representatives work in partnership with other
stakeholders, namely employers and education providers to ensure
that individuals can attend educational and training courses that
will help them from both a personal and work perspective. There are
now 22,000 ULRs in the UK alone and they are playing a significant
part in pushing the present Labour administration s drive to expand
and improve lifelong learning to create a learning society that
benefits individuals, organisations and ultimately the nation and
its economy. They have rewritten the rules of the workplace by
helping to replace distrust and adversarial relations with
partnership working based on mutual respect and trust.
This book was published as a special issue of the Journal of
In-Service Education.
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