The deadline for Adult Learners' Week Award nominations is today at 5pm - don't miss your chance to give adult learners the recognition they deserve for their outstanding and remarkable learning journeys.
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Wednesday 20 Jan 2010 |
NIACE has developed new content for educators, managers and organisations on the Excellence Gateway - an LSIS online service for everyone who works in the post-16 learning and skills sector in England.
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Tuesday 19 Jan 2010 |
Nearly 20,000 people living in sheltered housing will be switched on to the internet under £2.9m plans being developed by the Government to boost the number of silver surfers, which will be delivered by NIACE and Digital Unite.
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Tuesday 19 Jan 2010 |
2010 signals significant changes in the role that local authorities will have in learning. A conference looking at this issue was held in the presence of Her Royal Highness The Princess Royal, Patron of NIACE - in London, on Tuesday 19 January 2010.
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Tuesday 19 Jan 2010 |
NIACE welcomes a new right for employees to request time off work for training, which will generate real benefits for employees, employers and the economy. Time to train was announced by BIS, on Wednesday 13 January 2010.
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Friday 15 Jan 2010 |
Improving your skills could lead to a better job and more pay. January's Sign Up Now campaign - run by NIACE - encourages all adults to take up learning during 2010, the European Union Year for Combating Poverty and Social Exclusion.
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Friday 15 Jan 2010 |
New strategies announced this week by Government illustrates their commitment to help more and more people access the digital world.
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Wednesday 13 Jan 2010 |
The publication of Learning Through Life has sparked a lot of interest in Canada. Professor Tom Schuller, the report's co-author and NIACE Associate Director, has been invited to discuss the report's findings during a four-day visit to the country.
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Monday 11 Jan 2010 |
Following Lord Mandelson's announcement, on Wednesday 23rd December, that funding to universities is to be reduced by £398 million, NIACE has issued a response on what impact this will have on part-time students.
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Wednesday 6 Jan 2010 |
A new campaign - First News My Way! - raising awareness of the learning challenges faced by children with dyslexia is welcomed by NIACE, whose own dyslexia work highlights the social and emotional aspects of dyslexia and its impact on learning and work for adults.
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Wednesday 6 Jan 2010 |
The recent Copenhagen summit on climate change attracted huge worldwide attention. In amongst the headline grabbing speeches and workshops was an exploration of the links between climate change and learning.
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Wednesday 23 Dec 2009 |
As part of CONFINTEA VI a workshop was held on learner voice, which discussed the importance of ensuring that learners are encouraged and enabled to have democratic representation within the lifelong learning system.
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Wednesday 23 Dec 2009 |
A Government initiative has awarded funding to 36 projects across the country, to run community learning activities, under the Community Learning Champions' Support Programme - delivered by NIACE, unionlearn, WEA and Martin Yarnit Associates.
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Monday 21 Dec 2009 |
NIACE welcomes the second annual report from Ofqual - published Thursday 17 December 2009 - but warns that the body's role regarding vocational and occupational qualifications should not be neglected by over-focussing on general qualifications like GCSEs and A-levels.
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Friday 18 Dec 2009 |
NIACE welcomes the continued commitment to active labour market policies set out in the governments' Building Britain's Recovery: Achieving Full Employment White Paper, published Tuesday 15 December 2009.
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Thursday 17 Dec 2009 |
NIACE's Associate Director for International work, Jan Eldred, looks back on the recent CONFINTEA VI conference.
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Friday 11 Dec 2009 |
A growing, independent group of researchers from the Learning and Skills sector, the Learning and Skills Research Network, gathered to raise the profile of research, at an annual NIACE conference held in London, on Friday 11 December 2009.
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Friday 11 Dec 2009 |
A new project looking for volunteers across the East Midlands - particularly people who are currently unemployed - to train as Digital Activists and help local people get to grips with new technology, is being launched at a NIACE event in Nottingham today.
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Thursday 10 Dec 2009 |
Cathedrals as Partners in Adult Learning (CPAL) - a NIACE initiative - has launched a website supporting the development of informal adult learning in Cathedrals, Greater Churches and other Places of Worship.
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Wednesday 9 Dec 2009 |
The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills is undertaking a review of Post-Graduate Provision and NIACE invites its members and others to comment on its draft response, by Wednesday 16 December 2009.
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Wednesday 9 Dec 2009 |
Many people with learning difficulties and/or disabilities want to work and have a right to education and training to help them lead fulfilling lives. The final Enterprise and Employment conference - organised by NIACE and the LSC - took place in York on Monday 7 December 2009.
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Wednesday 9 Dec 2009 |
NIACE is part of a select group of national agencies which met for the first time on Thursday 3 December 2009, to review fees in further education.
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Friday 4 Dec 2009 |
From Rhetoric to Coherent Action - CONFINTEA VI starts in Brazil.
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Thursday 3 Dec 2009 |
Transformation Fund project, Stretch - a York based non-profit organisation dedicated to the widening of participation in museums and galleries - is launching a ‘pop-up' museum, in Leeds today.
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Tuesday 1 Dec 2009 |
NIACE's Associate Director for International work, Jan Eldred, shares her thoughts on the 6th International Adult Education Conference - organised by UNESCO - which she is attending in Brazil, until 4 December 2009.
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Monday 30 Nov 2009 |
