Gordon Brown will inject a further £3m into the Union Learning Fund, which aims to help unions open up a wide range of learning opportunities for their members. The prime minister announced the plans to increase the funding to £15.5m at this week's TUC Congress. A key goal of the fund, run by organisation Unionlearn, is to develop the role of union learning reps in raising demand for learning, especially among workers with low skill levels and those from disadvantaged groups. Director of unionlearn Liz Smith said: "Union learning projects all over the country, run by our 18,000 union learning reps, will be getting extra money to ensure that individuals who really need help back into education will be able to receive support and guidance to take those first steps back into learning. "The prime minister has given a clear signal that union-led learning is central to the future not just of trade unions but of our country." Brown described union learning as "the biggest...



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