Our second guest blog in a series following on from NIACE’s initial thoughts on the upcoming Spending Review, comes from Aoife Ni Luanaigh, Senior Research Manager at the UK Commission for Employment and Skills. The nature of work is changing. New developments in technology mean that people need to continually update their knowledge and how [...]
Today’s guest blog, written by Tom Wilson, follows on from NIACE’s initial thoughts on the upcoming Spending Review and kick-starts a series exploring different perspectives from the further education sector. Tom Wilson is Director of unionlearn – the education, learning and skills organisation of the TUC – and a NIACE Board Member. Skills matter more [...]
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 [...]
