The support the Armed Forces give to their personnel to help them improve their literacy and numeracy is one that other large employers could learn from. This is NIACE's response to the publication of a 3-year Armed Forces Basic Skills Longitudinal Study.
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Tuesday 12 Jun 2012 |
Following its large-scale survey of UNISON members and subsequent report, Skilled for Work (2011), NIACE has worked with UNISON to develop a range of materials to support learning for the union's members.
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Friday 8 Jun 2012 |
NIACE welcomes three of the outcomes from the latest Ofsted consultation, A Good Education for All, published on Wednesday 30 May 2012.
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Thursday 31 May 2012 |
A range of resources supporting Functional Skills for adults and exploring ways of overcoming the challenges facing learning providers and tutors, is now available from NIACE.
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Tuesday 29 May 2012 |
NIACE welcomes Ofsted's recognition of the importance of parents and carers in supporting children's maths in its latest report into maths teaching - Mathematics: made to measure - published on 22 May.
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Tuesday 22 May 2012 |
In response to the publication today of the Employer Skills Survey from the UK Commission for Employment and Skills, NIACE is concerned over the number of employers not carrying out any training, but believes more can be done to encourage them.
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Tuesday 22 May 2012 |
The publication by the Deputy Prime Minister of an update on progress towards improving social mobility in the UK on 22 May, is welcomed by NIACE for the recognition it gives to the role of lifelong learning.
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Tuesday 22 May 2012 |
Applications are now closed for a pilot scheme which will work with local people and organisations to develop proposals to shape community learning in England.
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Monday 21 May 2012 |
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Friday 18 May 2012 |
A national policy conference exploring current and emerging challenges to widening participation in adult education was held by NIACE and The Open University on 15 May, as part of Adult Learners' Week (12-18 May) which received a warm message of support from the Prime Minister, David Cameron.
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Friday 18 May 2012 |
A seminar exploring the rapidly-changing digital landscape and how it affects learning opportunities for adults was held by NIACE on 10 May, in the presence of its Royal Patron, HRH The Princess Royal.
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Wednesday 16 May 2012 |
Around 3 in 5 adults have not participated in learning in the last 3 years and over one-third have not participated at all since they left full-time education. These are the headline findings NIACE's participation survey, published today ahead of Adult Learners' Week (12-18 May).
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Friday 11 May 2012 |
A National Craft Toolkit was launched on Friday 11 May to spearhead Adult Learners' Week (12-18 May) and to coincide with Craft and Design Month. The launch was jointly hosted by NIACE and craft&design magazine at Hatfield House in Hertfordshire.
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Friday 11 May 2012 |
A NIACE seminar to support providers in analysing the opportunities and challenges they will face with the introduction of the FE loans policy from 2013 is taking place on 23 May in Leicester.
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Friday 11 May 2012 |
NIACE welcomes the proposals focussing on the quality of teaching and learning in its recently submitted response to Ofsted's consultation - A good education for all - but calls for a renewed policy dialogue on inspection.
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Tuesday 8 May 2012 |
A seminar to help develop NIACE's policy on Offender Learning - on 26 April at Women In Prisons in London - was attended by HRH, The Princess Royal, and the Minister for Skills, John Hayes MP, as well as practitioners and learners.
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Friday 27 Apr 2012 |
The launch of the National Careers Service on Thursday 5 April, is a welcome indication of government's on-going commitment to the development of a good quality service for adults, but more could be done for young adults, says NIACE.
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Wednesday 4 Apr 2012 |
NIACE is pleased that the Independent Review Panel on Professionalism in Further Education is seeking to resolve the uncertainty which has existed over the future direction of professional standards across further education.
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Wednesday 28 Mar 2012 |
The BBC One series about adult literacy, Secrets and Words, shown Monday 26 March - Friday 30 March, was developed with help from NIACE, encouraged adults to improve their skills and wasaccompanied by online resources for both learners and tutors.
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Monday 26 Mar 2012 |
NIACE has welcomed the news from the Skills Funding Agency that ESOL is to be funded for another year - 2012/13 - and remains hopeful that the funding for ESOL will continue into 2013/14 and beyond.
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Friday 23 Mar 2012 |
NIACE's call on education providers to do more to support young adult carers, was supported by Dame Philippa Russell, Chair of the Government's Standing Commission on Carers, at a national conference on 21 March.
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Wednesday 21 Mar 2012 |
Providing computers and training in sheltered housing across the country has had a positive impact for both residents and landlords through the Get Digital programme - delivered by NIACE and Digital Unite - according to an evaluation report published on Friday 16 March.
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Tuesday 20 Mar 2012 |
NIACE welcomes the Government's launch of the new Social Justice strategy - Social Justice: Transforming Lives - as it contains much which NIACE believes will please adult educators across the country.
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Tuesday 20 Mar 2012 |
Government's decision not to proceed with statutory Codes of Practice to accompany Equalities legislation means further and higher education must do more.
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Tuesday 20 Mar 2012 |
NIACE welcomes the recent launch of National Numeracy and looks forward to continuing to work closely with the new organisation to make the case for more, better and different maths learning for adults.
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Friday 9 Mar 2012 |
