British Olympian, Iwan Thomas, is encouraging adults to take up learning this September and discover their hidden talents, by backing Sign Up Now - a national campaign from NIACE.
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Monday 7 Sep 2009 |
A website offering guidance for the Learning Revolution Transformation Fund bid winners, together with general information about the Transformation Fund initiative, was launched on Tuesday 18 August 2009 by NIACE.
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Tuesday 25 Aug 2009 |
Eighteen 'Early Bird' project sharing £1m of the Learning Revolution Transformation Fund, were announced by the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) in July 2009.
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Tuesday 18 Aug 2009 |
A comprehensive study - by NIACE - of English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) provision in Waltham Forest can help other boroughs across the country to comply with the requirements of the new government ESOL strategy.
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Thursday 6 Aug 2009 |
A report from the House of Commons Innovation, Universities, Science and Skills Committee - Students and Universities - published on 2 August 2009, makes the case for part-time and mature students.
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Thursday 6 Aug 2009 |
A new consultation on citizenship - Earning the Right to Stay: A new points test for citizenship - was published by the Home Office, on Tuesday 4 August 2009.
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Tuesday 4 Aug 2009 |
NIACE has produced a set of new posters - as part of its Reading for Pleasure materials - to get adult learners talking about numbers.
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Thursday 30 Jul 2009 |
NIACE warmly welcomes the speech - made on Monday 27 July 2009 - by First Secretary Lord Mandelson at Birkbeck College in London.
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Monday 27 Jul 2009 |
A revised framework for the inspection of the further education and skills sector was launched by the Office for Standards in Education, Children's Services and Skills (Ofsted), on Thursday 23 July 2009.
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Monday 27 Jul 2009 |
A NIACE seminar looking at both the opportunities and challenges that the Digital Britain report - published June 2009 - presents for adult learners, is being held today in Leicester.
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Friday 24 Jul 2009 |
NIACE has been successful in its tender to manage the Transformation Fund and will oversee the distribution of the remaining £19million grant fund - announced the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, on Wednesday 22 July 2009.
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Wednesday 22 Jul 2009 |
NIACE agrees with a report by the National Audit Office (NAO) - published on 21 July 2009 - suggesting that the government's Train to Gain scheme is not providing value for money
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Wednesday 22 Jul 2009 |
A new NIACE project will help improve the learning opportunities available to older people in care and support care staff in delivering learning.
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Tuesday 21 Jul 2009 |
NIACE set the agenda with a briefing looking at what impact the newly-formed Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) will have on adult education - held Tuesday 21 July 2009, in Leicester.
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Tuesday 21 Jul 2009 |
A report published Friday 17 July 2009, highlights how the best provision in family learning is boosting the skills, qualifications and confidence of children and adults in England.
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Friday 17 Jul 2009 |
NIACE welcomes the government's new White Paper on Britain's ageing population and in particular the recognition it gives to the role of adult learning in supporting people to make the most of their later years.
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Wednesday 15 Jul 2009 |
NIACE's Associate Director for International work, Jan Eldred, reflects on the recommendations of The International Conference on Financing Adult Education for Development, held on 23-24 June 2009, in Bonn, Germany.
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Wednesday 15 Jul 2009 |
NIACE's lead on media literacy - Rachel Thomson - discusses why the government's Digital Britain White Paper matters to adult learning policy.
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Friday 10 Jul 2009 |
The Daily Express - on Friday 10 July 2009 - quotes NIACE's Stephen McNair, relating to his new policy paper on learning and older people.
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Friday 10 Jul 2009 |
One way to encourage people into reading is through storytelling and two events highlighting how this method might be used - The power of storytelling as a teaching tool - were held by NIACE in Leeds, on Friday 10 July 2009.
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Thursday 9 Jul 2009 |
The deadline has now closed for bidding for money from the Transformation Fund. The fund offered £19 million for new and creative informal adult learning proposals that will benefit people, not just now, but for years to come.
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Tuesday 30 Jun 2009 |
NIACE has launched a new set of materials to help NHS staff improve their customer care and team-working skills on the job.
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Thursday 25 Jun 2009 |
A NIACE literacy seminar exploring the role of adult literacy has in international development - building healthy communities and ending poverty - is being held in London on Wednesday 1 July.
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Wednesday 24 Jun 2009 |
Think About It is a NIACE project which involves seven groups of young adults - aged 19-25 and living in predominantly white working class areas - developing learning resources which will help them, and others, to take control and shape their lives in positive ways.
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Tuesday 23 Jun 2009 |
NIACE's Associate Director for Information and Communication Technology (ICT) - Alan Clarke - shares his personal comments on the final ICT User Skills review, published on Tuesday 16 June 2009.
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Friday 19 Jun 2009 |
