Call for evidence: Learning in the workplace

The National Institute of Adult Continuing Education (NIACE) has agreed to establish and support a commission in order to identify best practice in the UK and internationally across each of the key arenas in which adult learning makes a significant contribution, to identify the values, principles and practical steps needed to give life to life-long and life-wide learning for all communities of the UK.

As part of this work, the Commission of Inquiry will be issuing a number of calls for evidence on particular themes. At present we are calling for evidence on learning in the workplace.

Interested individuals and organisations are invited to submit written evidence to the Commission.
The closing date for evidence was 27 November 2007.

In particular, the Commission invites evidence on the following areas:

In addition we welcome evidence on any area relevant to the work of the Inquiry. This evidence can be submitted at any stage, however please indicate that it is not linked to a particular call.

Written evidence
This is a public call for evidence. Recipients of this notice are encouraged to draw it to the attention of others who may wish to submit evidence to the Inquiry

Evidence submitted become the property of the Commission, and may be printed or circulated by the Commission at any stage. Personal contact details supplied to the Commission will, however, be removed before publication. If you do not wish for your submission to be made public, please state this clearly at the start of your submission.

Witnesses may publicise their written evidence themselves, but in doing so should indicate that it was prepared for the Commission

Submissions by email are preferred (as attachments in Word) and should be emailed to lifelonglearninginquiry@niace.org.uk  Unless submissions are short, they should be accompanied by a summary outlining the key points.

Please ensure that you include your relevant contact details. Evidence should be attributed and dated, with a note of your name and position, and should state whether it is submitted on an individual or corporate basis. Please indicate clearly that the evidence is being submitted in response to the call for evidence around learning in the workplace.

Evidence should be submitted to:
Fiona Aldridge
NIACE
21 De Montfort Street
Leicester LE1 7GE
Email: lifelonglearninginquiry@niace.org.uk

For further information, the media contact is:
Ed Melia, 0116 2230050/07795 358870
Email: Ed.Melia@niace.org.uk

For more information about the Inquiry, please contact:
Fiona Aldridge, 0116 2044246 or Helen Plant, 0116 2859668
Email: lifelonglearninginquiry@niace.org.uk

Commission Membership
The Chair of the Commission is Professor Sir David Watson, historian and Professor of higher education management at the Institute of Education, University of London and a member of the Board of the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority.

The members are: