Posts Tagged ‘NIACE annual Adult Participation in Learning Survey’

Austerity or investment in learning and skills?

It’s been a busy few months at NIACE: preparing for Adult Learners’ Week, developing our proposals for the spending review, interpreting the figures coming out of this year’s participation survey, thinking about the impact of the benefit changes and skills for those in and out of work, working through the challenges in funding and structural [...]

A time for change

It’s been a really busy week at NIACE and yesterday alone we responded to the Richard Review of Apprenticeships, the publication of the Work Programme Statistics and the Chief Inspector’s annual report for Ofsted. And on Friday we publish The Adult Apprentice, setting out NIACE’s position on apprenticeships and featuring the stories of 10 inspiring [...]