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Network Name Change
NIACE's Racially Inclusive Learning Network (RILN) has changed its name to the Black Practitioners and Learners Network (BPLN).
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aims of the BPLN are to: | Bring together black practitioners who will interact with local and national education organisations in the voluntary; adult and community; further and higher education sectors in order to share good practice and to discuss and respond to policy initiatives. |
| Explore the needs of black adult learners. Work with and inform educational organisations to shape and develop their current and future provision to better meet the needs of these learners. |
| Seek to be flexible, relevant and effective by maintaining regular communication; dissemination; consultation; evaluation and support with and for those who work with black adult learners in the delivery, development and planning of learning opportunities. We will assist them in increasing the quality and quantity of education, assessment and training for black adult learners. |
| Ensure that equality of opportunity is demonstrated in the actions of the Network. |
| Review and evaluate their work on an ongoing basis. |
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Wireless Outreach Networks (WON)
The "Adult and Community Learning Laptop Initiative" began in 1999 and was jointly managed by NIACE and the Basic Skills Agency on behalf of the then Department for Education and Employment (DfEE). This project involved the distribution of 1500 ICT packages to local education authorities and to voluntary and community organisations for use in widening participation in education.
The Department for Education and Skills (DfES) is now introducing a new initiative which aims to provide networks of wireless laptop computers to increase access to learning through technology for socially and economically disadvantaged adults. Organisations can apply for capital funds to purchase networks of wireless laptop computers ranging from a minimum of 7 machines up to a maximum of 25.
We are initially inviting organisations to send in their expressions of interest, a form for which can be found in Appendix 4 of the eligibility document below.
Completed forms should be returned to NIACE by 5.00 p.m. on 13th September. Organisations will be notified by early October if they have been successful at this stage and will then be asked to complete a full proposal. Should your organisation be aware of any others in the locality whom we have not contacted, please feel free to forward the details on to them.
| Download Eligibility Document as Word File (24.5 KB) |
| Download Eligibility Document as PDF File (174 KB) |
| Please contact us at the following e-mail address should you have any queries about the initiative: WON@niace.org.uk |
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Review of Adult Learners' Week 2002
What a difference a Week makes
From 11 to 17 May 2002, NIACE and its partners celebrated the 10th anniversary of Adult Learners’ Week across the United Kingdom. More than a hundred learners were awarded for the enthusiasm and effort they had undertaken in their learning journeys in quite different settings, for instance at work or in family contexts. Many of them took the opportunity to speak up in front of fellow learners and other guests to the award ceremonies and shared impressive and very personal passages of transformation and empowerment.
In England, colleagues in colleges, libraries, museums, businesses, voluntary and a range of other sectors held thousands of events to inspire adults to try their hand at something new. Results show:
| 41,000 people taking part in events (with thousands more reached through the hundreds of press articles, radio and TV features that were printed or broadcast during the Week) |
| half a million pieces of regional publicity distributed |
| more than 30 Sainsbury’s stores holding front-of-store taster sessions in liaison with local providers |
| 20,000 calls to learndirect |
| 240,000 motivational booklets distributed |
| 1,200 press articles. |
“Each year Adult Learners’ Week gives us the chance to celebrate and promote adult learning,” said Estelle Morris, Secretary of State for Education and Skills. “It is invaluable in raising awareness of the importance of lifelong learning through national and regional events. I am passionate about the importance of learning and the need to understand why we must continue our learning journey throughout our lives. Adult Learners' Week is one way we can achieve this.”
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Nominations open for ALW Awards 2003
NIACE is now inviting entries for the Adult Learners' Week awards for 2003 and would like to encourage out website visitors to apply.
There are a number of awards offered, including:
| for projects which have designed new and creative ways for adults to learn; |
| for individual adult learners; and |
| for community groups. |
Among the awards offered for individuals is Learning Works, open to adults who have improved their prospects at work or found employment as a result of attending a learning programme.
Five winners will each receive £250 at an award ceremony in London during Adult Learners' Week, 10-16 May 2003.
A winner from 2002, Kelly Clifton went back to learning four years ago unable to write her own address but determined to improve her literacy skills. Thanks to her hard work she's now working as a nursing assistant at Leicester General Hospital, and hopes to become a nurse.
"Kelly is a shining example of someone who has achieved success through her own determination and hard work," said her nominator.
A Group Award winner from 2002, the Ta'Aleem Alnyssa group was nominated by the WEA in Monmouth. The 12 women in the group and their tutors wrote, produced and launched a book called Faith, Family and Friendship. The group plan to pass on their fundraising and writing skills to other members of the community.
| If you would like to nominate someone
for any of the awards offered by NIACE for Adult Learners' Week 2003,
please download a nomination
form* today, or contact the Campaigns & Promotions Team on 0116
204 4200.
* Currently, only the Individual and Group Nomination forms are available. The Learning Works and New Learning Opportunities Award nominations form will be available from mid-August 2002. |
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Competition for EAEA poster
Could you design a poster for the European Association for the Education of Adults (EAEA)? If you think you could, why not enter the EAEA's 2002 poster competition? You could win a three-day stay in Brussels.
The rules of entry are:
| The poster must show the EAEA logo and the corresponding colours, the address of the main office, including website and e-mail address. |
| Entries must be original work of the artist. |
| The poster must be applicable for single use advertising the EAEA. |
| Entries should be submitted in the format A2. |
| Sufficient white space should be incorporated into the body of the poster to allow EAEA to later overprint with photographs, illustrations or text which refer to upcoming conferences, meetings or publications. The white space should be no less than 210x290mm for an A2 poster. |
| Entries can be in two or four colour; two colours offers the possibility to use the poster in smaller formats, for example for an EAEA leaflet. |
| You may submit more than one entry for consideration. |
| The organising committee reserves the right to use the poster image for any purpose related to the aims and objectives of the EAEA. |
| The organising committee reserves the right not to select a winner if not enough entries are received or if it deemed by the judges that none of the entries would satisfactorily reflect the purpose for which the competition has been organised. |
| The judges decision is final. |
| Entries should be sent to: EAEA main office,
Rue J. Stevensstraat 8,
B-1000 Bruxelles, to arrive before the closing date of Thursday 5
September 2002.
More information about the EAEA can be found on the EAEA website |
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Family learning consultation exercise
Involved in family learning? Have your say on the draft occupational and functional maps that NIACE, working with New Directions Consulting, have put out for consultation.
You can find them at www.newdirect.co.uk/familylearning
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