On International Women's Day (8 March), NIACE Director of Development and Research, Carol Taylor, took time to recognise the transformational impact education can have on the lives of women and their families, in an article for FE News.
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Wednesday 7 Mar 2012 |
How individual employers, apprentices and the wider public benefit from the Apprenticeship program - and how much the Government should invest in it - was the focus of a round-table discussion, held by NIACE and Microsoft in London on Tuesday 6 March 2012.
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Tuesday 6 Mar 2012 |
Ways of encouraging more adults to improve their maths were explored at a NIACE seminar on Tuesday 6 March 2012, which also saw the launch of a new NIACE report on maths-learning, commissioned by the Skills Funding Agency.
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Tuesday 6 Mar 2012 |
NIACE is encouraging new and reluctant readers to develop a love of reading, beyond World Book Day (1 March) and ITV Daybreak's Get Britain Reading campaign.
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Thursday 1 Mar 2012 |
NIACE welcomes the newly launched Raspberry Pi, as an exciting example of an innovation with the potential to enrich what is currently on offer for adults learning digital skills.
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Wednesday 29 Feb 2012 |
The announcement that further education colleges will no longer be classified as part of central government has been welcomed by NIACE, which believes the decision will benefit adult learners.
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Monday 27 Feb 2012 |
Race Online, UK online centres and many others joined NIACE at a seminar on Thursday 15 March, to explore how the remaining 8.2 million people in the UK who have never been online, can be supported.
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Thursday 23 Feb 2012 |
The views of thousands of people on the future for informal adult and community learning have been published in a NIACE report of a public consultation, commissioned as part of a wider government consultation on further education.
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Friday 17 Feb 2012 |
The progress made in the provision of high quality higher and further education for disabled learners in the last 15 years, and how it can continue to improve, was the focus of a conference by NIACE, the OU and LSIS, on Thursday 16 February 2012.
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Tuesday 14 Feb 2012 |
6,000 people have been reached in just six weeks, through Team v, a young adult volunteering programme managed by NIACE, vInspired, Charities Aid Foundation and The Rank Foundation.
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Monday 13 Feb 2012 |
Despite new legislation in the last three years to strengthen education and work opportunities for young adults leaving care, statistics indicate that more needs to be done to improve their chances. This was addressed at a NIACE conference on Thursday 9 February 2012.
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Thursday 9 Feb 2012 |
The number of employers prepared to take on an apprentice would more than double if the right package of support was available from Government and learning providers, says a new survey of 1,000 employers commissioned by Pearson and NIACE.
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Thursday 9 Feb 2012 |
Quick Reads Reading Breaks kick-started across the country in February and NIACE is calling on even more schools, colleges and workplaces to get involved and encourage people to fall in love with reading in 2012.
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Tuesday 7 Feb 2012 |
To coincide with the start of Apprenticeship Week (6 - 10 February), NIACE has published a report analysing the experiences of the 81 learners who were nominated for last year's Adult Apprentice of the Year Award, which was sponsored by Pearson for Adult Learners' Week.
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Monday 6 Feb 2012 |
The latest fall in the number of adults who are involved in Personal and Community Development Learning, as reported this week in BIS's Quarterly Statistical First Release, is of concern to NIACE.
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Thursday 2 Feb 2012 |
Eight brand new Quick Reads have been launched - with titles from bestselling authors including Maeve Binchy, Alexander McCall Smith, Lynda La Plante and James Caan - encouraging new and reluctant readers to develop a love of reading.
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Wednesday 1 Feb 2012 |
NIACE welcomes the statement made by the National Audit Office that ‘Apprenticeships for adults offer a good return for the public money spent on them overall'.
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Wednesday 1 Feb 2012 |
The substantial drop in applications for higher education from mature students - announced in UCAS figures on Monday 30 January 2011 - is a significant cause for concern, NIACE believes.
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Monday 30 Jan 2012 |
NIACE welcomes BIS's continued commitment to the premium universities in England receive to engage students from disadvantaged backgrounds, as confirmed in its annual grant letter to Hefce.
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Friday 27 Jan 2012 |
NIACE has today published a special issue of Adults Learning to inform the ongoing debate about the introduction of further education loans for adults over 24 years in England from 2013.
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Friday 27 Jan 2012 |
The 2012 Adult Learners' Week nominations are now closed. NIACE is processing the hundreds of nominations received in order to kick-start the rigorous short-listing process.
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Wednesday 25 Jan 2012 |
An accessible guide for literacy tutors outlining the principles of sentence combining - an aspect of grammar teaching that has been proven to improve the quality of learners' writing - has been published today by NIACE.
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Wednesday 25 Jan 2012 |
A seminar to examine how literacy and numeracy standards of young adults can be raised is being held today by NIACE, and will address Professor Alison Wolf's review of vocational education for the Government.
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Friday 13 Jan 2012 |
The drop of 14.4% in UCAS applications since 2011, from those aged 25 and over, is more than double the average overall drop of 6.4%. These are findings from the latest application figures released by UCAS and are of concern to NIACE.
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Wednesday 4 Jan 2012 |
The education charity, the Open School Trust, is the new owner of The National Extension College (NEC), which has been bought from the Learning and Skills Network after it went into administration last month.
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Friday 23 Dec 2011 |
