What is Adult Learners' Week?
Adult Learners' Week is an annual week-long national campaign
delivered each May which seeks to engage and inspire people to
pursue adult learning - either to catch up on skills not learnt at
school, to learn for or at work, or to learn for fun.
It is the UK's largest learning campaign, and promotes education and training for adults, provides access to information and guidance, motivates more adults to participate in learning opportunities and celebrates the learning achievements of adult learners through regional and national awards. It is a collaborative venture between education and training providers, broadcasters, and national and local government.
NIACE is the largest organisation working to promote the interests of learners and potential learners in England and Wales and, since 1992, we have brought together a diverse range of private, public and voluntary bodies to celebrate learners - in all their diversity - and recognise their achievements during Adult Learners' Week. Through high-profile media campaigns, conferences and parliamentary activity, the Week is an important means of showcasing the ways in which we can create and maintain a more skilled and knowledgeable workforce whilst at the same time building learning communities in which people can explore shared enthusiasms and work together as active citizens.
The Week has the backing of the Department for Education and Skills and the European Social Fund and is also supported nationally and locally by a raft of prestigious organisations as diverse as Prudential, Ofcom, the Office of Communications, Jobcentre Plus, the Co-op, Royal Mail, Ufi/learndirect, broadcasters - including the BBC, Channel 4 and ITV - and City and Guilds.
With events taking place across the country - in shops, cafes, museums, libraries, prisons, colleges and parks - and with a dedicated telephone helpline for learners, the benefits of taking part in courses, events and activities during Adult Learners' Week are highlighted to a huge range of audiences - young and old - in communities the length and breadth of the country.
Impacts in 2006
It is the UK's largest learning campaign, and promotes education and training for adults, provides access to information and guidance, motivates more adults to participate in learning opportunities and celebrates the learning achievements of adult learners through regional and national awards. It is a collaborative venture between education and training providers, broadcasters, and national and local government.
NIACE is the largest organisation working to promote the interests of learners and potential learners in England and Wales and, since 1992, we have brought together a diverse range of private, public and voluntary bodies to celebrate learners - in all their diversity - and recognise their achievements during Adult Learners' Week. Through high-profile media campaigns, conferences and parliamentary activity, the Week is an important means of showcasing the ways in which we can create and maintain a more skilled and knowledgeable workforce whilst at the same time building learning communities in which people can explore shared enthusiasms and work together as active citizens.
The Week has the backing of the Department for Education and Skills and the European Social Fund and is also supported nationally and locally by a raft of prestigious organisations as diverse as Prudential, Ofcom, the Office of Communications, Jobcentre Plus, the Co-op, Royal Mail, Ufi/learndirect, broadcasters - including the BBC, Channel 4 and ITV - and City and Guilds.
With events taking place across the country - in shops, cafes, museums, libraries, prisons, colleges and parks - and with a dedicated telephone helpline for learners, the benefits of taking part in courses, events and activities during Adult Learners' Week are highlighted to a huge range of audiences - young and old - in communities the length and breadth of the country.
Impacts in 2006
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Advertising space - worth over £4 million
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Number of website visitors - 26,000
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Events - at least 5,000
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Newspapers, flyers and course guides distributed - 327,000
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People taking part in events - 56,000
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People signing up for further information on courses - 7,000
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Callers to the helpline who had already or intended to take some action - 85%
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Callers enrolling on or starting a course leading to a qualification - 29%