Madeline Held MBE (1944, in Corbridge, Northumberland – 2020, in

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) was a British academic in the Faculty of Arts and Human Sciences,

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. She had been the Director of the LLU+ (formerly the

Language and Literacy Unit). The unit ran the largest

professional development Professional development is learning to earn or maintain professional credentials such as academic degrees to formal coursework, attending conferences, and informal learning Informal learning is characterized "by a low degree of planning and ...

centre in the UK, undertaking capacity building for

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and

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Awards and honours

Held was awarded an

MBE Mbe may refer to: * Mbé, a town in the Republic of the Congo * Mbe Mountains Community Forest, in Nigeria * Mbe language, a language of Nigeria * Mbe' language, language of Cameroon * ''mbe'', ISO 639 code for the extinct Molala language Molal ...

for services to Adult Basic Skills in the

2006 New Year Honours The New Year Honours 2006 in some Commonwealth realms were announced (on 31 December 2005) in the United Kingdom, New Zealand, Grenada, the Solomon Islands, Tuvalu, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Belize, and Saint Christopher and Nevis to cel ...

List.Locals recognised in New Year Honours
London SE1 Community website, 31 December 2005.

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Obituary posted by Learning Unlimited 21 April 2020
1944 births 2020 deaths British educational theorists Academics of London South Bank University Members of the Order of the British Empire {{UK-academic-bio-stub