A ‘seminar on wheels' - Learning to Drive - looking at inner-city community cohesion, organised by NIACE and Leicester City Council, was held across Leicester, on Tuesday 1 December 2009.
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Monday 30 Nov 2009 |
Today is the last day of the International Civil Society Forum - taking place in Brazil - which provides an opportunity for individuals and organisations from different countries to discuss the benefits of adult learning to human development, in preparation for CONFINTEA VI.
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Friday 27 Nov 2009 |
NIACE is calling for evidence from providers across further education who work with adult learners with learning difficulties and/or disabilities.
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Wednesday 25 Nov 2009 |
Disabled adult learners are often marginalised and can have difficulties getting to classes. A new book offering travel solutions for disabled adult learners - Equity Road - has been published by NIACE today, Monday 30 November 2009.
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Tuesday 24 Nov 2009 |
Over one-third of all adults don't have regular access to the Internet and just under a third lack access to a computer. These are headline findings from NIACE's Annual Survey of Digital Participation, published yesterday at a joint NIACE/Ofcom conference in London.
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Monday 23 Nov 2009 |
Recent policies have sought to reduce discrimination of adults with learning difficulties and/or disabilities and lift them from the margins of education. This is the focus of the annual NIACE Disability Conference - Learning Enabled - held in Sheffield on Tuesday 24 November 2009.
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Monday 23 Nov 2009 |
A new book that helps tutors to apply a learner-centred approach to teaching, often referred to as ‘formative assessment', has been published today by NIACE.
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Monday 23 Nov 2009 |
A decline in learner numbers overall, massive cuts in development learning and a reduction in the Skills for Life budget are three of the main concerns NIACE has about the new Skills Investment Strategy 2010-11 - launched on Monday 16 November 2009.
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Wednesday 18 Nov 2009 |
Former Adult Learners' Week award winner - Thomas Birch - has been recognised for his dedication to learning for the second time this year, after being named the Association of Colleges' (AoC) ‘Student of the Year' 2009, on Tuesday 17 November.
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Wednesday 18 Nov 2009 |
NIACE welcomes the support for older people in today's Queen's Speech, but believes that adult education has an important role to play in improving the quality of older people's lives and in helping them to stay independent for longer.
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Wednesday 18 Nov 2009 |
A new report helping learning providers to encourage adults to learn more about everyday legal matters affecting them - commissioned by the Public Legal Education Network (Plenet) - was published by NIACE, on Monday 16 November 2009.
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Friday 13 Nov 2009 |
NIACE believes that the Government could spend its adult training monies better, as a response to Skills for Growth - the new Skills Strategy, launched Wednesday 11 November 2009.
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Wednesday 11 Nov 2009 |
Learning together as a family has a powerful contribution to make to the future of lifelong learning, says a new paper - The impact of learning as a family: a model for the 21st Century - published today by the Inquiry into the Future for Lifelong Learning.
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Wednesday 11 Nov 2009 |
A report calling for cuts to funding for safeguarded adult learning, is of great concern to NIACE. Reforming skills funding - delivering productive results has been published by the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) today.
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Wednesday 11 Nov 2009 |
Free resources to help work-based learning providers and practitioners in supporting learners with a range of learning difficulties and disabilities, have been launched today by NIACE.
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Wednesday 11 Nov 2009 |
National Colleges Week, 9-15 November, is a celebration of the opportunities colleges create for individuals - illustrated yearly through NIACE's Adult Learners' Week award winners.
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Tuesday 10 Nov 2009 |
The role that lifelong learning can play in improving the mental wellbeing of older people will be discussed at a NIACE event - Mental wellbeing and learning for older people - held in London on Tuesday 9 November 2009.
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Monday 9 Nov 2009 |
The critical actions that will help drive adult learning forward in Scotland, built into the report from the independent Inquiry into the Future of Lifelong Learning - Learning Through Life - were discussed by Professor Tom Schuller at the Scottish Parliament on Monday 9 November.
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Monday 9 Nov 2009 |
NIACE welcomes a report saying that adults can significantly benefit from Skills for Life courses, published by the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS). NIACE's Programme Director Literacy, Language and Numeracy, Sue Southwood, comments.
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Friday 6 Nov 2009 |
A NIACE project that has helped to develop good quality family learning provision in Children's Centres - Family Learning: a multi agency approach - is being celebrated at a conference in London today.
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Friday 6 Nov 2009 |
Education should be about more than just the economy says NIACE, as it broadly welcomes Higher Ambitions - the new framework for Higher Education - published by the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) on Tuesday, 3 November 2009.
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Thursday 5 Nov 2009 |
The NIACE ‘Is it for me?' project - which helps adults with mental health difficulties and their carers to directly buy their social care and support they feel they need - was celebrated with an awards ceremony in Cambridge, on Thursday 5 November 2009.
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Thursday 5 Nov 2009 |
The difference Quick Reads have made to learners across the country will be demonstrated to adult learning providers and tutors at two remaining national Skills for Life Conferences, in Leeds on 18 November and in Birmingham on 23 November.
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Thursday 5 Nov 2009 |
People with dyslexia often find learning hard, but this year's Dyslexia Awareness Week (1 - 7 November) is a celebration of dyslexic people's strengths, which are highlighted through much of NIACE's work.
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Tuesday 3 Nov 2009 |
National Care Homes Week (2-6 November) will celebrate care homes around the country with the best facilities, but a NIACE research-project also highlights the positive impact that providing learning opportunities for older people in care can have.
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Tuesday 3 Nov 2009 |
