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Adult Learners' Week Yorkshire and Humber

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.

Learner Voice

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

The Yorkshire and the Humber Regional Learning Panel is a reference group which NIACE facilitates. The panel members are not expected to be experts - they are people who have valuable knowledge and direct experience as users of the further education system.

 1 September 2008

Learning for Active Citizenship

NIACE has supported partners in the Yorkshire and Humber Region to promote Learning for Active Citizenship.

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

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.

Making IT Personal

NIACE is evaluating the South Yorkshire digital mentoring project: Making IT Personal – Joining the DOTs.   The project explores the role of mentors and informal networks in addressing barriers to digital inclusion.

1 June 2009 - 1 July 2011

The Learning Revolution Yorkshire

Yorkshire 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.

The Learning Revolution: Yorkshire

This is an event on 12 March 2010 in Leeds to showcase informal learning in the region and address issues around sustainability.

 12 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
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