different adult learners
All Informal Adult Learning Projects
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Enabling DeclarationLevels of declaration of mental health difficulties by learners and staff are low. The project explores practice within a range of settings that will enable and support people to declare, knowing that their needs will be met. |
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Opening Up SpacesThis project aims to encourage and support organisations to make space on their premises available for groups to use for informal learning activities. NIACE has been asked by the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) to produce guidance materials for organisations to help them do this. |
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Learning clubs and groupsMany people learn in clubs and groups which are organised by their own members. This project has created a website which will help adults set up learning groups or clubs and keep them going. The site contains information and materials which can be printed off or read on the screen. Each learning group is different, so the website is set out to allow groups to choose the sections which are useful to them. The material is made available through a 'Creative Commons' licence which allows people to use and change the materials as much as they like so long as the original source is mentioned. |
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The Learning Revolution Transformation FundThe Learning Revolution White Paper on Informal Adult Learning was published in March 2009. As a result, £20 million was provided for the purpose of funding new opportunities for informal adult learning through the Transformation Fund. This money has been allocated through a competitive bidding process to 315 projects which are running all over England. |
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Families, learning and progressionThis is an ongoing programme of work examining and facilitating the development of progression within and from family learning. It interconnects with work on evidencing the impact of family learning. |
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Evidencing the impactThis programme of work brings together evidence of the impact of family learning on parents and carers, families and communities. The material has been collected from a variety of projects that NIACE has been involved in, and interconnects with the work we have been carrying out on progression in and from family learning. |
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The Learning Revolution YorkshireYorkshire and the Humber LEAFEA (the network of Local Authority Adult Learning Services), supported by NIACE, hosted an event in Leeds on 12 March 2010 to showcase and promote informal learning in the region and address issues around sustainability. The event attracted over 80 people, with keynote speeches by Rosie Winterton, MP and Alan Tuckett, Director of NIACE. |
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Adult and Community Learning Fund 2011The Adult and Community Learning Fund is a new fund from the Skills Funding Agency, administered by NIACE. The Adult and Community Learning Fund will help make the Big Society a reality and will contribute to the Government's aspirations for Informal Adult and Community Learning (IACL). |
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Making the ConnectionThis project has now finished. We've left it here for reference.
This project, which ran from 2007-09, brought together mental health organisations, family learning practitioners and the voluntary and community sector (VCS) to build partnerships, as well as developing good practice to promote positive mental health to adults engaged in family learning. It resulted in a resource pack for adult and family learning and mental health practitioners. |
1 April 2007 - 31 March 2009 |
Family learning to employmentThis project has now finished. We've left it here for reference. This ESF-funded project, which ran from April to October 2007, provides materials and case studies demonstrating how family learning can lead to employment and community enrichment. |
1 April 2007 - 31 October 2007 |
Family learning and parentingThis project has now finished. We've left it here for reference. This project links parenting skills and family learning to develop a best practice programme in children's centres, using a multi-agency approach. Funded by John Lyon's Charity, it builds on work that NIACE has been involved in since 2007 on linking family learning with the parenting agenda and Every Child Matters. |
1 August 2007 - 31 March 2010 |
Intergenerational access to informal learningThis project has now finished. We've left it here for reference. This research project examined the use of intergenerational learning (including wider family learning) to provide access to informal adult learning. Commissioned by DIUS, it built on work already completed by NIACE on family learning and on older learners. |
1 December 2008 - 30 April 2009 |
Stimulating Demand for LearningThis project has now finished. We've left it here for reference. Working with learning providers and a range of other partners to implement specific strategies aimed at increasing demand for learning by people with mental health difficulties. Pilot sites across the 9 regions consist of one or more learning or service providers and a range of other partners, to form strong and effective local partnerships that are able to encourage and support people with mental health difficulties into learning. |
1 April 2009 - 31 March 2010 |
Boosting WBL ProvisionThis project has now finished. We've left it here for reference. This project has worked with a range of work based learning (WBL) providers: colleges, private providers, local authority, voluntary and NHS organisations to find ways of increasing the quantity and quality of the provision that is offered to learners with mental health difficulties. |
1 April 2009 - 31 March 2010 |
Reaching CommunitiesTo produce updated guidance for practitioners working in schools and children’s centers on developing adult learning provision in their settings. |
1 June 2009 - 31 March 2010 |
Informal Adult Learning for older people in care settingsThis project arose out of The Learning Revolution white paper, where the Government made a specific commitment to take action to improve informal learning opportunities for older people in a range of care settings – residential home, day care, care in the home, and in supported housing – in England. |
1 June 2009 - 31 March 2010 |
Learning Together - a guide for facilitators of informal adult learning who want to develop their skillsThis project is designed to identify a core of knowledge and skills needed by facilitators in informal adult learning, and to identify training and development opportunities and resources that are available to enable them to develop those skills. |
1 July 2009 - 31 March 2010 |
Community Learning ChampionsCommunity Learning Champions are people who become active in their community by promoting the value of learning to others. They may be promoting learning with their friends, neighbours, relatives, or workmates, but they could also be meeting people they meet at the school gates, at the local shops or in groups or clubs. Champions speak from personal experience and act as role models for learning. The Community Learning Champions (CLC) project is supporting schemes across England to train and support champions of learning. CLCs work to engage learners in learning opportunities of all kinds. |
1 August 2009 - 31 March 2011 |
Learning with technologyThe project produced resources to help people who support informal adult learning to use technology effectivley in their activities. The resources were intended for use by both volunteers and paid staff to help build their confidence and their ability to use technologies with learners. |
7 September 2009 - 31 March 2010 |
Museums, libraries and archivesThis project has now finished. We've left it here for reference. Working with the Museum, Libraries and Archives Council, this project supports the development of family learning in museums, libraries and archives. It builds on collaborative work that NIACE has been engaged in with the sector since 2007. |
1 February 2010 - 31 May 2010 |
Working strategically with MLAThis project builds on NIACE and the Museum Libraries and Archives Council's England-wide work developing networking and delivering training on family learning in museums, libraries and archives. Focusing on the North East and Yorkshire and Humber regions, networking events provide a shared forum for local authority family learning staff and museum, libraries and archives sector staff with case study exchange to support curriculum development and best practice. |
1 July 2010 - 28 February 2011 |