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 [...]
The next installment in our series for International Women’s Day and beyond – on the theme of women, learning, literacy and liberation – comes from Judith Swift MBE, Union Development Manager. Judith takes the lead role for supporting unions in developing their learning and skills capacity, including overall management of the Union Learning Fund and [...]
…is how the TUC’s new General Secretary, Frances O’Grady, opened Unite’s first ever conference for union learning representatives (ULRs), held in partnership with NIACE and unionlearn. Around 400 ULRs gathered in Congress House against a backdrop of Latin American music played by a Unite-sponsored group of Peruvian musicians before Frances opened the conference with an [...]
The TUC warmly welcomed the recommendations set out by Doug Richard in his review of apprenticeships. We are pleased that the review has focused on the need to create standards and develop a world-class programme through raising quality and validating accomplishment. In our original submission to the review, we called on Richard to ‘pay particular [...]
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 [...]
