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  • Project gets over 60s reading and writing

    Monday, February 8, 2010 - 10:26
    Learning Revolution Transformation Fund logo

    A project encouraging the over 60s to read, write and get online - Bookbite - has been launched today by Booktrust. Bookbite is funded by the Learning Revolution Transformation Fund, managed by NIACE.

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  • Funding flexibilities for adult learning providers

    Friday, February 5, 2010 - 15:38
    Skills Investment Strategy 2010-11 front cover

    Important new funding flexibilities for adult learning providers were revealed - at a NIACE event, on Thursday 4 February 2010 - after a closer look at the government's Skills Investment Strategy 2010-11.

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  • Further frustration for disabled learners

    Friday, February 5, 2010 - 9:56
    Report front cover

    NIACE is deeply concerned about recent stories that illustrate the raw deal that learners with disabilities and/or learning difficulties are getting.

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  • New Quick Reads competition launched

    Thursday, February 4, 2010 - 14:03
    Quick Reads book covers

    Quick Reads is offering ten lucky readers the chance to win an expenses-paid trip to London, to meet a bestselling Quick Reads author at a high-profile awards ceremony. The competition closes on Friday 19 February 2010.

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  • Apprenticeships aren't just for young people

    Thursday, February 4, 2010 - 14:05
    A Print Apprentice

    During National Apprenticeship Week NIACE is pleased to have been invited to join an initial workshop at HM Treasury looking into expanding Level 3 Apprenticeships for 19-30 year olds.

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  • 2010 – record nominations for ALW Awards

    Tuesday, February 2, 2010 - 16:03
    Adult Learners' Week 2010 logo

    Almost 1,500 Adult Learners' Week Award nominations have been received by the NIACE Campaigns' Team for 2010, over 100 more than last year. Nominations closed at 5pm, Friday 29 January 2010 and winners will be determined at regional and national selection panels.

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  • Adult FE cuts ‘beggar belief’

    Thursday, February 4, 2010 - 14:40
    Pair of hands working with wires

    NIACE responds to the news that colleges face a £200million cut in funding for adult students and that ‘adult learner responsive' budgets will shrink by between 10 and 25%.

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  • New book helps parents to make reading fun

    Friday, January 29, 2010 - 16:51
    Father reading with his son

    A new book offering parents and carers ideas on how to help pre and primary school children enjoy books has been published by NIACE. Read With Me Again suggests that helping children to associate reading with happy times will make them more likely to be lifelong readers.

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  • Courses lost for adults with learning difficulties

    Wednesday, January 27, 2010 - 11:25
    IES report front cover (Impact of Changes in Provision on People with Learning Difficulties and/or Disabilities Post 19)

    NIACE is concerned over newly-published research from the Institute for Employment Studies (IES), stating that nearly one-in-five of LSC-funded learning providers reduced opportunities for adult learners with learning difficulties and/or disabilities between 2006 and 2008.

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  • Abolish Default Retirement Age, urges NIACE

    Monday, January 25, 2010 - 16:13
    Older Worker

    NIACE believes that the UK can not afford to waste the talents of older workers as it emerges from recession and that the default retirement age should be abolished at the earliest opportunity.

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  • Further concerns over Train to Gain programme

    Thursday, January 21, 2010 - 12:36
    Big Ben
    The influential Public Accounts Committee of the House of Commons has published a hard-hitting critique of the Government's Train to Gain programme which echoes many of the concerns that NIACE has expressed about the scheme's value for money.
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