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Martin Yarnit CV

Martin Yarnit specialises in the links between lifelong learning, employment and urban regeneration. He is a Neighbourhood Renewal Adviser to the NRU on Education and Worklessness. He is a joint director of Martin Yarnit Associates with Liz Cousins.

Recent projects include
· advising on school performance in Nottingham and Manchester for the local strategic partnerships
· evaluating (with Liz Cousins) learning networks in South Wales and Swindon
· reviews of secondary school performance in Bristol and Nottingham
· running leadership seminars for Nottingham LSP
· advising DfES on embedding test bed learning communities
· developing a corporate/community university for LB of Harrow
· disseminating the results of an LSC national research programme on learning brokerage
· running a series of seminars for OFFER – Sheffield volcom. network – on lifelong learning and neighbourhood renewal.

Other projects include reviews and development plans for learning champions in the West Midlands, Swindon and Sheffield, and a regional audit of learning community developments for Yorkshire and the Humber Government Office. He has recently designed a framework for recognising resident achievement in regeneration for GO West Midlands.

He is the author of Building Local Initiatives for Learning, Skills and Employment: testbed learning communities reviewed (NIACE 2006) and Towns, Cities and Regions in the Learning Age: a survey of learning communities (LGA 2000). He has spoken at events organised by the Canadian, Australian and Catalan Governments. Other clients include NIACE, LSDA, regional Government Offices, local authorities and voluntary sector organisations.

He was the prime mover behind Adult Learners Week and devised a proposal for Education Action Zones that appeared in Labour’s 1997 Manifesto. He was a founder of Sheffield the Learning City and chaired the Learning City Network in 1997-8. From 1997-2000 he managed Sheffield City Council’s New Deal activities and acted as a technical adviser to the Objective 1 Education and Employment and e-learning programmes.
http://www.martinyarnitassociates.co.uk/learningcommunities.php


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