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Transformation Fund – 10 days left to bid

Tuesday, June 30, 2009 - 11:49

The Transformation Fund offers £19 million for new and creative informal adult learning proposals that will benefit people, not just now, but for years to come. The deadline for bids is 12 July 2009.

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  • New materials launched to help NHS staff

    Thursday, June 25, 2009 - 12:18
    Improving Ward Communication

    NIACE has launched a new set of materials to help NHS staff improve their customer care and team-working skills on the job.

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  • Think About It

    Tuesday, June 23, 2009 - 16:24
    Think About It Dissemination Event

    Think About It is a NIACE project which involves seven groups of young adults - aged 19-25 and living in predominantly white working class areas - developing learning resources which will help them, and others, to take control and shape their lives in positive ways.

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  • Qualifications and Credit Framework - Podcast

    Friday, June 19, 2009 - 13:40
    QCF Logo

    The Qualifications and Curriculum Authority has introduced the new Qualifications and Credit Framework (QCF). This podcast illustrates how the QCF embraces the culture of lifelong learning and the impact its flexibility will have on learners.

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  • Funding for work with minority ethnic women

    Wednesday, June 17, 2009 - 11:55
    Woman at A Woman's Place pilot in London

    NIACE's groundbreaking project - A Woman's Place - which supports Pakistani, Bangladeshi, Somali and other minority ethnic women into learning, is about to enter its second phase, thanks to new funding.

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  • NIACE welcomes Digital Britain report

    Tuesday, June 16, 2009 - 16:50
    Map of UK on a computer keyboard background

    NIACE welcomes the publication of the government's Digital Britain White Paper, published on Tuesday 16 June 2009.

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  • New Department presents challenge

    Thursday, June 11, 2009 - 18:35
    Department for Business, Innovation & Skills logo

    The decision to establish a new Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) presents a challenging opportunity to place adult learning at the heart of Government.

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  • Channel 4 reports on fewer ICT courses

    Thursday, June 11, 2009 - 17:03
    Close up of part of a computer keyboard

    A special news feature on the falling numbers of ICT courses was aired during Channel 4's News at Noon, on Thursday 11 June 2009.

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  • NIACE welcomes World Trade Week

    Thursday, June 11, 2009 - 11:27
    NIACE's Karen Fairfax-Cholmeley in a classroom in Uganda

    NIACE's Associate Director for International work, Jan Eldred, welcomes this week's World Trade Week and compares the opportunities for learning at and for work here and overseas.

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  • Education promotes well-being – but over 25s excluded

    Monday, June 1, 2009 - 23:55
    IFLL logo

    Although well-being is increasingly recognised as a significant result of taking part in adult learning, for many adults over the age of 25, the choice is largely restricted to narrow skills-for-work programmes - says a NIACE-sponsored report published on Tuesday 2 June 2009.

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  • Digital Britain matters to adult learning

    Wednesday, June 24, 2009 - 13:42
    Hand on computer mouse

    NIACE's lead on media literacy - Rachel Thomson - discusses why the government's Digital Britain White Paper matters to adult learning policy.

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