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Some file on this page are PDF files. NIACE welcomes Government's Leitch implementation plan
The Government’s plans to implement Lord Leitch’s reforms to skills in England are welcomed by the National Institute of Adult Continuing Education.
NIACE’s Director, Alan Tuckett said:
‘This report is something of a relief. We were concerned that adult learning might be subsumed in an employer-led strategy, but congratulate the Government for deciding to focus on individuals’ aspirations and ambitions’.
‘Although there are some omissions in this paper, not least the failure to recognise the UK’s ageing demographic profile, the direction of travel is welcome’.
‘We look forward to working with the new Secretary of State and his team to realise a widely shared approach to education skills development for adults which ensures that those who benefited least from compulsory education are not excluded forever’.
 | Download "World Class Skills: Implementing the Leitch Review of Skills in England" here - [PDF] |
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International Conference
The right to education in the context of migration and integration, 15-16/11/07, Bonn
Language as a key to integration and participation. Promoting inclusion and participation through adult education and international co-operation.
Partners for this conference include The European Association for the Education of Adults (EAEA) and The International Council for Adult Education (ICAE)
For more details visit: www.migrationandintegration.de
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Reminiscence and Lifelong Learning
"People tend to see older people as a burden to society", says Sarah Housden author of the new NIACE publication Reminiscence and Lifelong Learning.
Drawing on her experiences working in nursing homes in Norwich, Sarah tells the remarkable story about how reminiscence work has had a dramatic effect on older people and their families and illustrates the immense resource that older people are to society and especially to any learning environment. Reminiscence and Lifelong Learning 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.
It is a compendium of good practice for tutors, other professionals and carers who are using older people’s memory work in a learning context. It includes many examples of projects and learning situations where, beginning with the sharing of memories, older people have gone on to develop skills in forming and sustaining relationships, oral and written communication, arts and crafts and literacy, and the use of modern information technology.
Sarah Housden discusses her remarkable work in an interview with NIACE Press Officer, Ed Melia, which can be downloaded below.
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Reminiscence and Lifelong Learning, priced £9.95 (US$20.00 €17.00) can be purchased from the NIACE online book shop.
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Adults Learning Readership Survey
The editorial staff at NIACE would like to hear your views on last year’s volume of Adults Learning (Volume 18: September 2006-June 2007), in order to inform the development of future editions.
We would appreciate it if you could take a few minutes to complete the questionnaire below and return it to us by Friday 3rd August 2007.
All questionnaires returned by this deadline will be entered into a prize draw. The winner will receive up to £50 worth of books of their choice from the NIACE catalogue.
Please email your completed questionnaire to Swati.Nettleship@niace.org.uk, or post it to Swati Nettleship, NIACE, 21 De Montfort Street, Leicester, LE1 7GE
| Download Adults Learning Readership Survey - [word] |
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Alliance for Lifelong Learning
| Basic Skills Agency (BSA) merges into NIACE |
| NIACE and Tribal form Alliance for Lifelong Learning to support literacy, language and numeracy across all age ranges |
| Welsh Assembly Government to take forward the Basic Skills Agency’s work in Wales supported by NIACE |
The Basic Skills Agency (BSA) began work as part of the National Institute of Adult Continuing Education (NIACE) on Monday 2nd July 2007 - and the expanded NIACE will work in alliance with Tribal in the field of literacy, language and numeracy to form the country’s leading concentration of expertise across all age ranges.
The BSA’s work in Wales will be assimilated into the Welsh Assembly Government in line with the Welsh Assembly policy with NIACE, working with Tribal, contracted to support that work.
The BSA began life as a NIACE agency in 1975 and became an independent charity with government support in 1991. The Agency’s work was critical for developing a strategy for literacy, language and numeracy and a range of work in the schools sector. In the light of changing circumstances the BSA’s board sought an effective partner to take forward its work with adults and young people. Following competition, NIACE, working with Tribal, was successful in offering a way forward.
Alan Tuckett, Director of NIACE, said:
“We are delighted to bring together the rich experience BSA and NIACE staff have in supporting Skills for Life, and to work in alliance with Tribal to offer language, literacy and numeracy support across all age ranges to practitioners, policy makers and government alike.”
He continued:
“We believe our partnership work with Tribal, creating a distinctive not for profit and private sector alliance in pursuit of the public interest will provide a powerful base to take forward developments supporting the success of the Skills for Life and Every Child Matters Strategies in England. We are also delighted to be supporting the Welsh Assembly Government’s forward programme.”
Garry Hawkes, Chair of the Board of the BSA, said:
“The Basic Skills Agency has a great record of achievement in supporting basic skills teaching and learning across all age groups. We are pleased that the Agency is joining with NIACE, working in alliance with Tribal. This move provides the best way of ensuring that key elements of the Agency’s work – to support teachers, identify and disseminate best practice and raise standards - will continue well into the future.”
He added:
“In the short-term we have a detailed plan of work to deliver within England for the Department for Education and Skills. The Department will continue to provide funding until the end of March 2008 to enable us to deliver these projects.”
Barry Brooks, Director for Education and Skills Strategy at Tribal said:
“As a key provider of support for the Government’s Skills for Life Strategy since it was launched in March 2001 Tribal is delighted to have established this alliance with NIACE. We are a private sector company with a public sector ethos dedicated to transforming lives through learning and welcome the opportunity to ensure that the Basic Skills Agency’s legacy for developing cradle to grave support to improve literacy, language and numeracy continues to develop and flourish. Through the Alliance we are committed to making a major contribution to and impact on the Government’s focus on securing social justice for all its citizens and economic sustainability through the skills of its workforce.”
Source: NIACE Press Release: "ALLIANCE FOR LIFELONG LEARNING" Released On 02/07/2007
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