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Workforce Equality in FE

This project has now finished. We've left it here for reference.

To create and disseminate a resource for post-16 learning and skills providers to promote recruitment of staff with mental health difficulties.

 1 September 2009 - 31 March 2010

Learning in the Recession

This project has now finished. Details about the project can be found below.

This report sets out the findings of research into the impact of the recession on learning and skills policy and provision in the English regions.  The project was carried out by NIACE between June and October 2009.

 1 June 2009 - 31 October 2009

Take Ten People

This project has now finished. We've left it here for reference.

Take Ten People promotes and supports an integrated approach to employment and learning and skills with adults who have experience of mental health difficulties.  It is a collection of resources for use in different ways:  As tools to support practitioners in their work with individuals; and to support their personal professional development; as resources to support local cross-sector joint working and as a training pack for organisations and/or partnerships to use for workforce development.

 1 April 2009 - 31 March 2010

The Regional Achievement Programme for LLN

This project has now finished. Details about the project can be found below.

The Regional Achievement Programme, co-ordinated through NIACE, has supported the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) and other agencies, primarily local Learning and Skills Councils in their work by engaging with providers and policy makers and other stakeholders, including learners, to support regions to enhance Literacy, Language and Numeracy (LLN) provision and policy implementation.

 1 April 2004 - 31 March 2010

Adult Learners' Week North East

Adult Learners' Week (the third week in May) is the UK's largest celebration of learning. It engages thousands of people in a diverse range of activities each year, inspiring them to get back into learning.

Lifelong Learning and Rural Communities: What is the Impact of Funding Cuts for Rural Learners?

NIACE have been commissioned to write a brief report identifying some of the potential issues faced by rural communities as a result of recently announced cuts to funding for adult learning.  This report will address the various aspects of the relationship between learning opportunities for adults, and living in rural communities.  Also, the paper will consider some of the challenges that exist when infrastructures are deconstructed and re-developed, and explore the role of the Voluntary and Community Sector in delivering and maintaining opportunities for learning in rural communities.
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