NIACE (The National Institute of Adult Continuing Education - England and Wales) is a non-governmental organisation working for more and different adult learners.

NIACE Aim
NIACE's formal aim is: "to promote the study and general advancement of adult continuing education"

Less formally, we interpret this to mean advancing the interests of adult learners and potential learners. Our strategic plan commits NIACE to:

"support an increase in the total numbers of adults engaged in formal and informal learning in England and Wales; and at the same time to take positive action to improve opportunities and widen access to learning opportunities for those communities under-represented in current provision."

We undertake this work through:

• advocacy to national and local government, funding bodies, industry and providers of education and training;
• collaboration with providers across all sectors of post-compulsory education and training; and through fostering progression routes for adults seeking to develop pathways as learners;
• a commitment to supporting evaluation and monitoring and to high quality service;
• securing informed debate - through research, enquiry, publication and through arranging seminars and conferences;
• effective networking - to ensure that lessons learned in one part of the system can be drawn on elsewhere;
• ensuring that the best of international practice is available to its members and users;
• a commitment to being itself a well-managed learning organisation.

NIACE is a registered charity (no. 1002775) and a company limited by guarantee (registration no. 2603322) under English law. It is a membership organisation, with individual members and more than 500 corporate members across the full range of providers, policy makers and users of adult learning opportunities. NIACE headquarters are in Leicester, England and Cardiff, Wales. The organisation employs more than 200 staff.

> More information about NIACE can be found on their website