NIACE welcomes select committee report on post-16
skills
The publication of the House of Commons Education and Skills Committee’s
Inquiry into Post-16 Skills has been warmly welcomed by NIACE.
Senior Policy Officer Alastair Thomson commented, “This report contains a
balanced and measured assessment of government policy, highlighting achievements
and causes for concern. We share many of the Committee’s worries about the Train
to Gain initiative and also about the need for more public investment in adult
learning.”
He continued, “NIACE hopes that Government will think hard about what the
Committee recommends.”
NIACE also welcomes the Report’s comments about the impact of demographic
change and about the provision of English for Speakers of Other Languages
(ESOL).
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Last updated
30 Aug 2007
Influencing Public Policy / Advocacy
Commission for Disabled Staff in Lifelong Learning The Commission for Disabled Staff in Lifelong Learning,
in celebrating diversity, aims to investigate and report on the
current practices in the employment of disabled people in order to
make recommendations that positively influence culture and practice
and promote career opportunities for disabled people.
[posted:03/05/07]
Influencing
the debate - priorities for the Autumn - 05/10/07, Leicester This briefing follows the UK's three largest political
parties' annual conferences during which NIACE staff will have been talking with
national politicians and activists to assess the concerns, aspirations and
challenges that will shape the education and training agenda for the year ahead.
[posted: 10/08/2007]
E-Guides
training programme for adult education The E-Guides staff development programme is a thorough
introduction to e-learning and the skills required to use technology effectively
in teaching and learning in post-16 education.
[posted: 09/08/2007]
E-Guides National
Event 2008 - 13/03/08, Manchester This one-day event, supported by QIA and LSC, will offer an
extensive programme of workshops for E-Guides, e-learning practitioners and
those responsible for implementing e-learning strategies.
[posted: 09/08/2007]
Evaluation Matters: Training and resources to make a difference This one-day training is built around the Paul Hamlyn
Evaluation Resource Pack. The Resource Pack was produced, in association with
NIACE, to help voluntary and community sector managers, front-line workers and
volunteers use creative and participatory methods to evaluate their work. It is
full of useful information and good ideas that will work with a diverse range of
organisations, with different structures and resources.
[posted: 09/08/2007]
FE in the 21st Century -
what works for adults, London Further Education for adults is at a crossroads. After two
years when a million adults have been lost from public sector funding, there is
a new institutional landscape. This triad of conferences aim to assess how well
the FE system works, and has worked, for adult students and to reach
recommendations for future FE provision.
[posted: 07/08/2007]
Winning ways for
work-based learning in HE - 19/09/07, Leicester Participants will hear from experts in the field of workplace
learning and university work-based learning. They will be able to explore the
practices described and consider their implications for their own institution in
the light of emerging policy from the Leitch Review of Skills, the requirements
for higher skills and demand-led funding approaches for HEIs.
[posted: 03/08/2007]
Discovering Potential (for Learning Support Staff)
The Discovering Potential pack and the training will help
you understand what is meant about health, self-esteem, learning and working in
partnership, not just in relation to your work with clients, but for yourself
and your organisation too.
[posted: 03/08/2007]
Discovering Potential (for Information, Advice and Guidance Staff) The Discovering Potential pack and the training will
help you understand what is meant about health, self-esteem, learning and
working in partnership, not just in relation to your work with clients, but for
yourself and your organisation too.
[posted: 03/08/2007]
NIACE E-moot: 5-day
online conference, 1-5/10/07
NIACE is staging an online e–moot to enable practitioners to
engage in discussion and debate on issues around current e-learning practice. It
will be of interest to managers and tutors alike.
[posted: 31/07/2007]
Recruiting, training,
employing, retaining and supporting the career aspirations of disabled staff in
lifelong learning
This conference will launch the interim report and subsequent
consultation period of the Commission for Disabled Staff in Lifelong Learning.
NIACE has been leading on the Commission for Disabled Staff in Lifelong
Learning. This conference will give delegates the opportunity to be the first to
hear the interim findings and recommendations. Delegates will also receive a
copy of the report.
[posted: 28/07/2007]
What Older People Learn -
06/09/07, Leicester
The seminar launches the NIACE publication ‘What older people
learn: the whys and wherefores of older people learning’.
[posted: 18/07/2007]
Democratising
Democracy - 10-11/09/07, Cambridge
This seminar will explore how we might re-articulate and
re-activate radical political education and will be followed by the publication
of a policy discussion document to promote political education and active
citizenship.
[posted: 16/07/2007]
Engaging with Research - developing a new future
- 06/12/07, London
The Learning and Skills Research Network Conference brings
together practitioners from further and higher education, adult community
learning, voluntary organisations and training providers who are interested in
research and development in the Learning and Skills Sector. The conference
provides a unique opportunity to share interests and explore how research can
help our understanding of the policy and practice of facilitating learning for
young people and adults.
[posted: 05/07/2007]
Book Shop:
Safer Practice, Safer
Learning - FREE DOWNLOAD Safer Practice, Safer Learning sets out
the safeguarding responsibilities of further education colleges,
adult and community learning providers and providers of work-based
training in the Learning and Skills Sector in England.
[posted:12/07/07]
What Older People Learn This is a report of an authoritative scientific
study of older learners, part of NIACE’s series of annual surveys on
adult participation in learning.
[posted: 06/07/07]
Adult Learning: June 2007 issue Editorial, contents and commentary from June's
issue of the best journal for policy and practice in adult learning.
[posted:28/06/07]
Something
happened to it along the way - FREE DOWNLOAD Inclusive learning and the future of educational
provision for adults with disabilities - Professor John Tomlinson
Memorial Lecture, London, 12 September 2006. This is available
as a free download.
[posted:06/06/07]
Figures of Speech Language learning in the UK is complicated, and
this authoritative survey shows that the complexity is increasing.
More languages are spoken, more people have two languages and
different groups have different motivations and patterns of
learning. Learning English, almost invisible in NIACE’s 1999
language-learning survey, is now a dominant strand.
[posted:22/05/07]
Road to Nowhere?
This survey continues the series documenting adult participation in
learning in the UK. Using responses of around 5,000 adults in the
UK, it offers key findings, breaking down participation, trends in
participation and future intentions to learn by gender,
socio-economic class, age, employment and the regions.
[posted:18/05/07]
Studies in the
Education of Adults Studies in the Education of Adults is an
international refereed academic journal, publishing theoretical,
empirical and historical studies from all sectors of post-initial
education and training. It aims to provide a forum for the debate
and development of key concepts. Read the editorial Spring 2007
edition online now.
[posted:15/05/07]
Journal of Access
Policy and Practice The Journal of Access Policy and Practice informs
and supports development in access and widening participation. It
explores education policy and practice as it affects access to
learning and surveys the field, both nationally and internationally.
Read the editorial and the article abstracts from the Spring 2007
edition online now.
[posted:15/05/07]
Journal of Adult Continuing Education The Journal of Adult and Continuing Education is
essential for keeping in touch with the field of post-compulsory
education. Published twice a year, it provides a forum for rigorous
theoretical and practical work in the broad fields of lifelong
learning and adult, community and continuing education. Read
the editorial and the article abstracts from the Spring 2007 edition
online now.
[posted:15/05/07]
Reminiscence and lifelong learning This is an irreplaceable guide to ways of using
learners’ personal memories as a resource in learning; a source of
knowledge, ideas and experiences for tutors and learners to draw on.
[posted:14/05/07]
Quick Reads
2007
Quick Reads was launched by Prime Minister Tony
Blair on World Book Day 2006 to provide fast-paced, bite-sized
books by bestselling writers for emergent readers, anyone who had
lost the reading habit or simply wanted a short, fast read.
It was a remarkable collaboration between authors, publishers,
book retailers, libraries, the education sector, and other
partners and supporters.
World Book Day, 1 March 2007, sees the launch of a brand-new range
of Quick Reads books.
[posted: 22/11/06]
Projects / Research
Family Learning Matters Topic
Paper No. I: Reviewing Family Literacy, Language and Numeracy Programmes
- [PDF 211KB]
This is the first in a new series of Family Learning Matters Topic Papers. The
series will cover current issues for practitioners in family learning. The first
in the series has been designed to support LSC funded providers review Family
Literacy, Language and Numeracy programmes in line with the new LSC family
programmes guidance for 2007-08. It is designed as checklist with supporting
notes. As with any checklist, it should be used in a flexible way and be related
to local conditions and circumstances.
[posted: 19/06/07]
The Links between family learning
and parenting programmes: a discussion document for local authorities
This discussion document is an outcome of a DfES funded exploratory study on the
links between family learning and parenting programmes in local authority
settings. The paper outlines the challenges for local authorities in
implementing the new agendas, areas for discussion and examples of imaginative
practice identified during the study. It also includes the recommendations
arising from the research.
[posted: 31/05/07]
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