The Qualifications and Curriculum Authority has introduced the new Qualifications and Credit Framework (QCF). This podcast illustrates how the QCF embraces the culture of lifelong learning and the impact its flexibility will have on learners.
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Friday 19 Jun 2009 |
The current policy focus on skills for employability does not pay any in-depth attention to gender, says NIACE, and there is a tendency to treat skills as gender neutral. This was discussed at a NIACE seminar - Gender on the Agenda - held in London yesterday.
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Wednesday 17 Jun 2009 |
NIACE's groundbreaking project - A Woman's Place - which supports Pakistani, Bangladeshi, Somali and other minority ethnic women into learning, is about to enter its second phase, thanks to new funding.
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Wednesday 17 Jun 2009 |
NIACE welcomes the publication of the government's Digital Britain White Paper, published on Tuesday 16 June 2009.
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Tuesday 16 Jun 2009 |
The decision to establish a new Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) presents a challenging opportunity to place adult learning at the heart of Government.
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Thursday 11 Jun 2009 |
A special news feature on the falling numbers of ICT courses was aired during Channel 4's News at Noon, on Thursday 11 June 2009.
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Thursday 11 Jun 2009 |
NIACE's Associate Director for International work, Jan Eldred, welcomes this week's World Trade Week and compares the opportunities for learning at and for work here and overseas.
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Thursday 11 Jun 2009 |
Although well-being is increasingly recognised as a significant result of taking part in adult learning, for many adults over the age of 25, the choice is largely restricted to narrow skills-for-work programmes - says a NIACE-sponsored report published on Tuesday 2 June 2009.
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Monday 1 Jun 2009 |
Adult Learners' Week award winner, Nicky Jecks, was interviewed on Woman's Hour - on Tuesday 26 May 2009 - about how she is on her way to study Medicine at Cambridge University, after leaving school with few qualifications.
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Thursday 28 May 2009 |
Private and public training providers inhabit parallel worlds with little overlap between the two, and greater collaboration between them could greatly improve the delivery of training. This is the central message in a new report on training published on, Tuesday 26th May 2009.
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Wednesday 27 May 2009 |
As a precaution to the swine-flu outbreak, the Brazilian government has decided to postpone the 6th UNESCO International Conference on adult education - CONFINTEA VI - due to take place in Brazil 19 - 22 May 2009.
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Friday 22 May 2009 |
NIACE is pleased that as part of this year's Adult Learners' Week (9-15 May 2009), Reading Borough Council staff have been promised paid time off for training.
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Friday 22 May 2009 |
The flagship celebration of Adult Learners' Week - the National Awards Ceremony - was held in London, on Friday 15th May 2009.
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Thursday 14 May 2009 |
It has been announced that Sir Jon Shortridge will become interim Permanent Secretary for DIUS when Ian Whatmore leaves on 21 May.
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Wednesday 13 May 2009 |
101 Ways to get your Child to Read by Patience Thomson has won this year's Quick Reads Learners' Favourite Award, as voted for by adult learners and readers.
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Wednesday 13 May 2009 |
When asked about the contribution government, employers and individuals should make towards lifelong learning, adults think that overall, the public subsidy should be lower. This is the headline finding of the NIACE survey - Who should pay for adult learning?
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Sunday 10 May 2009 |
This year's Adult Learners' Week survey of adult participation in learning of all kinds shows a sharply widening gap between the educationally privileged and the educationally excluded.
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Thursday 7 May 2009 |
A discussion paper calling for increased learning opportunities that purposely bring different generations together, within and outside the family, was published by NIACE on Wednesday 29 April 2009.
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Tuesday 28 Apr 2009 |
Adult Learners' Week - 9 - 15 May is approaching and this year it has the backing of radio and television presenter and adult learner, Philippa Forrester
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Tuesday 28 Apr 2009 |
New report for the Inquiry into the Future for Lifelong Learning stresses the vital role adult education plays in helping migrants settle into new communities
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Wednesday 22 Apr 2009 |
Responding to the Budget and the announcement of help with jobs and training for people under-25, NIACE is urging the Government not to neglect older workers.
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Wednesday 22 Apr 2009 |
NIACE welcomes the Global Action Week for Education as a concerted way to raise awareness of the need for education across the world.
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Tuesday 21 Apr 2009 |
The publication of The Learning Revolution has prompted a widespread and thoughtful debate across the adult learning sector. NIACE will be holding a policy briefing on Tuesday 21 April 2009, in London, to examine how The Learning Revolution will achieve its aims.
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Thursday 9 Apr 2009 |
A NIACE seminar looking at the use of phonics in teaching adults found that there is almost no research and little indication of it being used in adult learning.
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Thursday 9 Apr 2009 |
Some of the leading names from across the learning and skills arena are discussing the educational challenges arising from the global economic downturn at today's Adult Learners’ Week Policy Conference - Beyond the Recession: Adult Learning in a Changing World.
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Thursday 9 Apr 2009 |
