In the run-up to World Book Day today - and the publication of 10 new Quick Reads - NIACE has been releasing podcasts featuring interviews with some of this year's authors.
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Monday 28 Feb 2011 |
Third-sector organisations providing informal learning, volunteering or employment opportunities to young people, have contributed to NIACE's vital research for BIS.
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Thursday 17 Feb 2011 |
Training funded by the European Social Fund (ESF) is failing to recruit sufficient unemployed women. NIACE has launched a project on behalf of the Skills Funding Agency (SFA), to identify and share successful strategies used by organisations.
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Friday 11 Feb 2011 |
NIACE is concerned that the Government has not yet announced an Equality Impact Assessment, promised in January, on the likely effect of its proposals to reform the provision of English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL).
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Friday 11 Feb 2011 |
During National Apprenticeship Week 2011, 7- 11 February, NIACE highlighted the need for more good quality adult apprenticeships, considering our changing demography, and the importance of well trained staff to successful businesses.
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Wednesday 9 Feb 2011 |
NIACE welcomes the government's announcement of a new National Skills Academy (NSA) for Environmental Technologies, to develop workforce skills for the growing low carbon and renewable energy industries.
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Wednesday 9 Feb 2011 |
NIACE discussed its research around the 'Respect' agenda, as part of an Apprenticeship Week event at the brand new City of Westminster College Paddington Green Campus, on Tuesday 8 February 2011.
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Monday 7 Feb 2011 |
As part of NIACE's mission to work for more and different adult learners, its Chief Executive - Alan Tuckett - has signed the Action for ESOL petition.
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Saturday 5 Feb 2011 |
The NIACE survey to help determine the effects of the changing provision for adult learners with learning difficulties and/or disabilities, is now closed.
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Tuesday 1 Feb 2011 |
The promotion of positive mental health and wellbeing for staff in the FE sector, was the focus of a joint NIACE, UCU and LSIS conference inLondon on Tuesday, 1 February 2011.
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Tuesday 1 Feb 2011 |
Nominations are now closed for the 20th Adult Learners' Week Awards 2011 in England and a rigorous selection process will follow to choose the winners. The deadline for nominations in Wales is 25 February.
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Friday 28 Jan 2011 |
Following the announcement, last November, that Alan Tuckett, Chief Executive of NIACE, is due to retire, the search for the next person to lead NIACE has begun.
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Thursday 27 Jan 2011 |
NIACE is concerned about the latest Ofsted literacy survey - Removing barriers to literacy - and raises three main points about the way Ofsted reports on literacy work and about the findings themselves.
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Thursday 27 Jan 2011 |
How Community Learning Champions can help adult community learning providers deliver learning in the most disadvantaged parts of their communities, was the focus of a NIACE seminar held in Leicester on Wednesday, 26 January 2011.
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Thursday 27 Jan 2011 |
Family and Inter-generational Learning should be a key element on any future strategies relating to Early Intervention, with the concept of the Learning Family being seen as essential, argues NIACE in response to Graham Allen MP's review of Early Intervention.
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Friday 21 Jan 2011 |
NIACE is concerned about the proposed changes to the funding of ESOL. English language skills for adults are essential for individuals living in the UK, particularly if they are living here permanently.
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Thursday 20 Jan 2011 |
Work related training and education needs a complete overhaul if organisations are to play their role in the ‘Big Society', enabling individuals to have productive and fulfilling work lives, argues a NIACE and IOE book.
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Thursday 20 Jan 2011 |
The stories shared by Community Learning Champions at a NIACE event on Wednesday 12 January 2011, were used in Parliament as an example of the crucial nature of informal adult learning, by Paul Maynard MP.
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Wednesday 12 Jan 2011 |
The first prize in the 2010 UNESCO King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa Prize for the Use of Information and Communication Technologies in Education was presented to NIACE at the UNESCO headquarters in Paris on Wednesday, 12 January 2011.
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Tuesday 11 Jan 2011 |
NIACE's Programme Director for Literacy, Language and Numeracy - Sue Southwood - met with US adult educators in New York City on Monday 10 January, to discuss the UK's experience of adult numeracy learning.
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Monday 10 Jan 2011 |
NIACE congratulates all those associated with adult further and higher education whose work was recognised in the New Year Honours List 2011.
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Tuesday 4 Jan 2011 |
NIACE is pleased that funding for the bookgifting programmes - Bookstart, Booktime and Booked Up - which are run by Booktrust are to be saved.
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Thursday 23 Dec 2010 |
Signing up to learning this January can transform your life for the better and give you the confidence to make a difference in your community.
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Wednesday 22 Dec 2010 |
More details of how Further Education in England will be changed have emerged this week from BIS. NIACE is pleased that the wider benefits of adult learning are recognised, but will work hard to ensure that the most vulnerable are not the casualties of the changes.
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Monday 20 Dec 2010 |
A book examining what can be done about the under-resourced education of adults was launched at a private event to celebrate NIACE's Chief Executive's lifetime dedication to adult learning. Professor Alan Tuckett is set to retire in August 2011, after 23 years at the helm of NIACE.
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Monday 20 Dec 2010 |
