NIACE is seeking the support of its members and networks to refine and improve what it says to Government in response to the Skills for Sustainable Growth consultation.
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Tuesday 7 Sep 2010 |
In just 7 months the government's £20 million Transformation Fund got an extra 1.1 million adults to take part in all kinds of learning. A summary report to mark the Fund's end is being launched at The British Library today by NIACE, manager of the Fund.
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Tuesday 7 Sep 2010 |
NIACE launched an independent Inquiry in England on International Literacy Day (Wednesday, 8 September 2010), to look at what needs to be done next to help the estimated 5 million people who still lack the literacy skills needed for the 21st century.
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Friday 3 Sep 2010 |
Two publications outlining the contribution museums, libraries and archives make to lifelong learning and examining ways of enhancing it were published by NIACE and the Museums, Libraries & Archives Council (MLA), on Friday 3 September 2010.
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Thursday 2 Sep 2010 |
Adult Learners' Week award winner, Danny West, was one of the first people in the UK to be diagnosed as HIV positive in 1985 aged just 24. An interview with NIACE reveals how learning helped him to become a successful businessman 25 years on.
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Wednesday 1 Sep 2010 |
NIACE welcomes Skills Minister John Hayes' call for all UK businesses to promote informal learning at work, following pledges from sixty-four companies to increase opportunities for their staff.
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Wednesday 25 Aug 2010 |
To advance the case for adult learning in public policy, NIACE has responded to a number of consultations and has encouraged other organisations and individuals with an interest in lifelong learning to get involved.
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Tuesday 24 Aug 2010 |
Achievement rates across the Armed Services are higher than the national average, reports a summary of research into the impact of basic skills provision in the three Services, carried out by NIACE and NRDC.
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Friday 20 Aug 2010 |
Sign Up Now is encouraging all adults to sign up to learning this September and see how it can transform their lives for the better.
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Monday 16 Aug 2010 |
Former Gurkha soldiers, their spouses and families are to be helped by a NIACE project to access English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) courses, so they can integrate and resettle into society across England and Wales.
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Thursday 12 Aug 2010 |
NIACE is calling for tighter checks on employer training tax relief, estimating that the Treasury forgoes £3.7 billion of income each year by allowing Corporation Tax Relief and PAYE Tax Relief on employer spending on training.
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Monday 9 Aug 2010 |
NIACE welcomes the consultation on plans to phase out the default retirement age, but believes that it is vital for the government to help employers manage their older workers better, as the supply of new young entrants begins to shrink.
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Thursday 5 Aug 2010 |
The expanding family learning workforce is required to work with a range of partners. NIACE has published a unique set of training materials, to provide all staff working in family learning with the skills to deliver high quality provision.
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Thursday 5 Aug 2010 |
NIACE is offering free maths taster sessions to intermediaries and frontline workers in the voluntary and community sector, following the launch of the Maths4Us joint initiative between NIACE, NCETM and unionlearn.
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Friday 30 Jul 2010 |
An event organised today by NIACE and the WEA, reviewed the recent work of Digital Activist Inclusion Network volunteers in the UK and allowed them to compare experiences with similar projects in other parts of the world.
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Thursday 29 Jul 2010 |
A new report calling for reforms to the UK's skills system to boost the economy - published by the UK Commission for Employment and Skills (UKCES) on Wednesday 28 July 2010 - has been welcomed by NIACE.
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Wednesday 28 Jul 2010 |
NIACE welcomes the launch, by John Hayes MP, Minister for Lifelong Learning, of two consultation papers seeking to transform adult learning policy for the future.
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Wednesday 28 Jul 2010 |
NIACE pays tribute to the work of the Museums, Libraries and Archives Council following the announcement to close it down by April 2012.
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Wednesday 28 Jul 2010 |
The number of individual Community Learning Champions registered nationally has reached 1,000, a big step towards the 1,500 registrations that the national support programme is committed to achieving by March 2011.
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Wednesday 28 Jul 2010 |
NIACE is running a series of regional programmes to support the launch of Online basics - short bite-sized courses to help people, who currently lack digital skills, build up the ICT skills they need to get online.
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Friday 23 Jul 2010 |
NIACE has made a statement in response to a document issued by CIPD containing inaccurate material about NIACE. The document has now been withdrawn and a written apology has been received from the Chief Executive of CIPD.
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Wednesday 21 Jul 2010 |
Over 100 sheltered housing schemes across the country have received funding to help residents get online as part of a new outreach initiative - Get Digital.
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Thursday 15 Jul 2010 |
This paper on expenditure on lifelong learning, as well as models for funding represents a major contribution to building a strong knowledge base for a strategy for lifelong learning.
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Wednesday 14 Jul 2010 |
NIACE has joined forces with unionlearn and the National Centre for Excellence in the Teaching of Mathematics to launch a joint strategy and initiative to improve adult numeracy.
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Tuesday 13 Jul 2010 |
A report is now available on a seminar discussing the findings of new research - carried out by NIACE and LSIS - to inform provider strategies by improving understanding of aspirations, motivations and behaviours of young people and adults not in education, employment or training.
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Thursday 8 Jul 2010 |
