Information literacy skills - the link between secondary and tertiary education

The Department of Learner Support at Glasgow Caledonian University (GCU) has a substantial background in survey, research and evaluation work.

More recently this work has focused on the information literacy agenda as a result of the evaluation of the usage of electronic information services by staff and students at GCU and as a result of the Drumchapel Project. The original aim of the project was to evaluate the ICT skills of pupils there but the outcomes suggested the need for a strong focus on information literacy training among secondary school pupils. The result of all this research has been to focus attention on an information literacy strategy which links secondary and tertiary education and encourages the secondary and tertiary sectors to work together.

The Information literacy skills – the link between secondary and tertiary education project is an innovative national pilot to develop an information literacy framework with secondary and tertiary partners which, at the end of the project, can be rolled out to other participants. It will aim to produce secondary school leavers with a skill set which further and higher education can recognise and develop or which can be applied to the world of work directly.

Project Timescale

October 2004 – Mid 2008

For further details email:

J.Crawford@gcal.ac.uk or christine.irving@gcal.ac.uk

Last Updated: 18 October, 2006
Edited by: Christine Irving