Footage of a lecture examining the way in which learning can help ensure that an ageing society keeps up with the rapidly evolving digital landscape - organised by NIACE, The Open University and Channel 4 - can be viewed online.
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Friday 15 Apr 2011 |
Responding to the speech made by the Prime Minister on immigration, NIACE urges the Government to consider the impact changes to English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) provision will have on integration and social cohesion.
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Thursday 14 Apr 2011 |
NIACE reiterates the need for a radical change in how adult numeracy learning is addressed, in its response to Ofsted's report - Tackling the challenge of low numeracy skills in young people and adults - published on Friday 8 April 2011.
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Friday 8 Apr 2011 |
An Early Day Motion - Funding for English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) courses - has been submitted for debate by Paul Blomfield MP, following his attendance of a Parliamentary ESOL briefing on 29 March which was organised by NIACE and the Refugee Council.
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Friday 8 Apr 2011 |
NIACE believes the news, from earlier this week, that Skill - the National Bureau for Students with Disabilities - has closed is a ‘great loss to learners'.
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Thursday 7 Apr 2011 |
NIACE is examining evidence to assess the social and economic impact and value for money of Informal Adult and Community Learning, on behalf of the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS).
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Thursday 7 Apr 2011 |
NIACE has been commissioned by leading learning disability charity, Mencap, to undertake research into learning provision for adults with learning disabilities, because despite significant policy developments and research regarding young people there has been little focus on adults.
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Thursday 7 Apr 2011 |
There is growing evidence that using phonics is helpful in initial literacy teaching for adults, according to a new book, Phonetics for Phonics - Underpinning Knowledge for Adult Literacy Practitioners, published by NIACE.
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Thursday 7 Apr 2011 |
Baroness Sharp of Guildford, Chair of the national Colleges in their Communities Inquiry - led by NIACE, the Association of Colleges and the 157 Group - has visited Leicester College in one of the Inquiry's five place-based seminars designed to gather evidence.
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Thursday 31 Mar 2011 |
In less than 18 months 2,000 Community Learning Champions have encouraged over 100,000 people to take up learning in some of the country's most disadvantaged communities. These are the headline figures published in a report on Tuesday 29 March.
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Tuesday 29 Mar 2011 |
The significant changes to funding arrangements for the provision of English for Speakers of Other Language (ESOL) for adults was the subject of a Parliamentary briefing on Tuesday 29 March, organised by NIACE and the Refugee Council.
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Monday 28 Mar 2011 |
The Board of NIACE has announced that David Hughes - the current National Provider Services Director at the Skills Funding Agency - will be the new Chief Executive of NIACE, following the retirement of Professor Alan Tuckett in the summer.
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Thursday 24 Mar 2011 |
To mark 90 years of NIACE's commitment to making the case for adult learning, a conference took place in London on Tuesday 5 April, in the presence of Her Royal Highness The Princess Royal, Patron of NIACE.
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Tuesday 22 Mar 2011 |
Age UK's myfriends online week (21 - 27 March) is an initiative that reflects NIACE's long-standing commitment to helping older adults to develop the necessary skills to get online.
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Monday 21 Mar 2011 |
To improve the poor numeracy skills of adults - estimated to cost the economy £2.4bn a year - the Government needs to adopt a new approach to numeracy that focuses on how adults use maths and numbers in everyday life, says a NIACE-led Independent Inquiry into Numeracy.
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Friday 18 Mar 2011 |
NIACE was one of 250 adult learning stakeholders from over 35 countries to attend a conference organised by the European Commission and held in Budapest (7-9 March), to mark three years of intensive European cooperation in the field of adult learning policy.
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Friday 18 Mar 2011 |
A new NIACE book highlights how supporting and developing numeracy can help improve staff performance, leading to better services and more efficient ways of working.
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Tuesday 15 Mar 2011 |
NIACE welcomes two major recommendations of the independent Wolf Report into vocational education for 14-19 year olds, published on Thursday 3 March.
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Monday 14 Mar 2011 |
The call for evidence issued by the joint Colleges in their Communities Inquiry - led by NIACE, the 157 Group and the Association of Colleges - to improve understanding of the relationship colleges have with their communities, is now closed.
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Monday 14 Mar 2011 |
A joint NIACE and Institute of Education event examining the premise - set out in Remaking Adult Learning - that adult learning is central to public policy making, took place in London on Monday 14 March.
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Monday 14 Mar 2011 |
The success of the Community Learning Champions' Support Programme in helping volunteers to promote learning in their homes, workplaces and communities, was celebrated at a NIACE event on Wednesday 9 March.
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Wednesday 9 Mar 2011 |
To mark the centenary of International Women's Day this year, NIACE held an event celebrating the progress women have made in the last century, the role that learning has played in this and to launch a manifesto to ensure every woman has the right to learn.
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Tuesday 8 Mar 2011 |
Quick Reads - a partnership initiative which sees publishers, authors, employers, unions and charities working together - has been recognised as a model for similar skills' initiatives.
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Thursday 3 Mar 2011 |
In the last of the author interviews to mark the publication of 10 new Quick Reads on World Book Day, we hear from Terry Jones of Monty Python fame.
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Thursday 3 Mar 2011 |
A reception took place in the House of Lords on Wednesday 2 March, to celebrate the publication of 10 new Quick Reads on World Book Day today.
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Wednesday 2 Mar 2011 |
