In response to the increasing demand for publications in popular electronic formats and to make NIACE publications more accessible to a wider range of readers, NIACE has launched its new e-books website and is giving away a brand new Sony e-book reader worth £200.
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Wednesday 29 Jun 2011 |
The process used by colleges, universities and workplaces to evaluate non-formal, informal and unaccredited learning - Recognition of Prior Learning - is a rapidly developing approach around the world, examined in a book published by NIACE today.
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Tuesday 28 Jun 2011 |
Individuals who commit to making the case for adult learning through Individual membership of NIACE can now apply for Life membership - which is available to both current and new Individual members.
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Monday 27 Jun 2011 |
A joint policy position paper on Career Guidance for Adults has been launched by NIACE and NAEGA.
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Wednesday 22 Jun 2011 |
NIACE lent its support to VQ Day on 22 June, by highlighting the role that vocational qualifications have played in helping more adults to get the job and career they want through learning and training.
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Tuesday 21 Jun 2011 |
A conference from NIACE and NAEGA in London on 21 June discussed how career guidance policy and practice can meet the needs of all adults throughout their lives in a changing and challenging economic and social climate.
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Tuesday 21 Jun 2011 |
As part of Refugee Week last week, NIACE highlighted the stories of refugees and the contribution they have made through, or because of, the learning they have done as adults.
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Monday 20 Jun 2011 |
Alan Tuckett, currently NIACE's Chief Executive, has been elected President of the International Council for Adult Education. He will be President for four years until 2015 and is the first European to hold the role.
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Monday 20 Jun 2011 |
The rigorous and careful process of deciding which of the over 2400 bids are to receive grants from the Adult and Community Learning Fund has started.
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Friday 17 Jun 2011 |
NIACE joined a range of individuals and organisations interested in adult education and its role in creating fair societies across the world, at the 8th ICAE World Assembly, which took place in Sweden from 14-17 June.
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Tuesday 14 Jun 2011 |
For Fathers' Story Week, Carol Taylor, NIACE Director Development & Research, is highlighting the significant role that dads and male carers need to and increasingly do play in children's learning.
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Monday 13 Jun 2011 |
NIACE welcomes the government's new Work Programme - launched on Friday 10 June - and believes it has the potential to support harder to reach adults, as long as learning opportunities are embedded within it.
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Friday 10 Jun 2011 |
The new Adult and Community Learning Fund is now closed for submissions and all applicants will be notified with the results on Friday 22 July 2011.
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Tuesday 7 Jun 2011 |
NIACE welcomes today's statement issued by the Institute for Learning (IfL), trade unions and employers in the sector concerning the future development of IfL as a professional body.
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Tuesday 7 Jun 2011 |
To share and explore ideas shaping organisations' responses to the consultation on the SEN and Disability Green Paper - closing on 30 June 2011 - two seminars have been jointly organised this week by NIACE, NATSPEC and RADAR.
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Friday 3 Jun 2011 |
Developing the self-advocacy skills of adults with learning difficulties has become topical following shocking reports of patient abuse uncovered by this week's Panorama, yet NIACE has been committed to getting the voice of learners heard for over a decade.
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Friday 3 Jun 2011 |
During National Family Week (30 May - 5 June), NIACE highlighted the positive effect that learning together as a family has on family members' skills, confidence and appetite for life.
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Friday 27 May 2011 |
A successful 20th Adult Learners' Week (14-20 May) in England is over, after hundreds of learning events across the country gave tens of thousands of adults the chance to try something new.
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Tuesday 24 May 2011 |
A new fund to help make the Big Society a reality is open for applications, allowing organisations from across England to bid for their share of the £2.25 million available, for new and imaginative adult and community learning opportunities.
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Monday 23 May 2011 |
People with access to the Internet are far more likely to be learning than those without access. This is why NIACE launched its first Digital Day as part of England's Adult Learners' Week, on Friday 20 May 2011.
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Friday 20 May 2011 |
NIACE's annual survey of current and recent adult participation in learning is bad news for anyone over the age of 25 trying to improve their prospects through learning, especially men, older people, the least skilled and those outside the labour market.
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Tuesday 17 May 2011 |
NIACE's Annual Policy Conference - Enriching lives, inspiring learners - was held on Tuesday 17 May at the British Library in London - as part of the 20th Adult Learners' Week.
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Tuesday 17 May 2011 |
A film of Sir David Attenborough being presented with the first ever Outstanding Contribution to Adult Learning Award by Business Secretary, Vince Cable - as part of the 20th Adult Learners' Week National Award Ceremony - is now available to watch.
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Monday 16 May 2011 |
A number of well-known personalities have given their backing to the 20th Adult Learners' Week (14 - 20 May), including TV presenter, Trisha Goddard, and Monty Python, Terry Jones.
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Thursday 12 May 2011 |
A national programme of digital champions was announced today at the sixth National Digital Conference (11 - 12 May), which was attended by NIACE.
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Wednesday 11 May 2011 |
