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Celebrate Jane Mace's new book
NIACE invites you to celebrate Jane Mace's new book entitled, The give and take of writing: scribes, literacy and everyday life.
The celebration will take place on Wednesday 26 June from 5-7pm at Blackwell's University Bookshop, South Bank University.
Using examples from film, fiction, social history and autobiography the book shows a range of ways in which authors and scribes collaborate in everyday situations.
Please join us, meet Jane and hear more about it. Refreshments will be available.
An invitation (with a map and directions to the venue), can be downloaded by following the link below.
| The give and take of writing: scribes, literacy and everyday life, Jane Mace, can be purchased online, priced £15.95 ( ISBN 1 86201 124 9). |
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Workforce Development: shaping a system fit for all
NIACE has published a draft response to the Learning and Skills Council's (LSC) Draft Workforce Development Strategy to 2005.
This draft response is being posted on NIACE's website to inform members' and others shaping their responses. It will be considered by NIACE's Executive Committee on 20th June 2002, and then submitted following any amendment agreed there.
| The full text of the draft NIACE response can be found in the Influencing Public Policy Section of this website. |
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Audit of asylum seekers skills
Building on a recent skills and qualifications audit of asylum seekers in Leicester (Aldridge and Waddington, 2001), NIACE is currently involved in a three year project, funded by EQUAL, to employ project workers in five areas of the East Midlands - Derby, Leicester, Lincoln, Nottingham and Northampton - to audit the skills, qualifications and experiences of asylum seekers in their area and then to facilitate appropriate opportunities for volunteering or labour market orientation placements alongside learning support.
The project began in May 2002, and one of our first tasks is to undertake a baseline study of audits that have involved asylum seekers and/or refugees in the United Kingdom, and to produce a report on the methodologies used and the resulting outcomes. This study is to be completed by September 2002 when it will be shared with colleagues from the Danish Red Cross who are undertaking a similar exercise across Denmark, and then be used to inform a work programme for the next three years.
If you are aware of, or have been involved in such a skills audit or any other relevant piece of research we would appreciate it if you could provide us with details in order that we can ensure that the baseline study is a comprehensive as possible.
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research, or to provide us with information about relevant pieces of
work, please contact:
Fiona Aldridge (fiona.aldridge@niace.org.uk) , Research Officer, NIACE, 21 De Montfort Street, Leicester, LE1 7GE. Tel: 0116 2044246 |
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National ESOL Training and Development Project
Phase Two of this national programme started in April 2002. Work of the project in the next year will include:
 | the next round of training events on the Adult ESOL Core Curriculum; |
| publication of the guide for organisations working with refugees ; |
| a new strand, Progress and Progression, looking at setting learning goals and evidencing achievement in ESOL. |
Training for Tutors
An enhanced training team of 27 trainers has now started work on the
programme of 73 curriculum training events. Day one of the training is in the
summer term, Day two in the autumn 2002. By the middle of November a further
3,500 teachers will have been trained in implementing the Adult Core ESOL
Curriculum. There are still places on some courses.
Training for Managers
As well as the core training, 11 one-day cascade events and 10 network
meetings for curriculum managers will be run in Spring 2003. The cascade events,
run around the country, will be for those with a management or teacher training
brief who are familiar with the curriculum but wish to train others in it. The
programme will include an up-date on national events, sharing of local
information and discussion about how to customise training to suit local needs.
The events will be free. The network meetings will be a chance for curriculum
managers to get together and discuss issues involved in implementing the new
infrastructure across their institutions. A network for managers is already
running in London and has proved very popular.
| Contact Sian Pollock (sian.pollock@niace.org.uk) at NIACE on 0116 204 2848 for more information on the courses for Tutors and Managers |
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ACLF: An Impact Study
In the Autumn of 2001, The Institute for Employment Studies (IES) was commissioned by NIACE to undertake a comprehensive study asking questions of providers, practitioners and participants about the impact, if any, the ACLF Fund and its Projects had made.
The report and its findings will be launched at a conference entitled
"Creativity, Imagination and Learning: Impact of the Adult and Community Learning Fund"
to be held in London on Wednesday 3rd July 2002.
This conference provides the opportunity to hear the outcomes of the report: about what seems to work best and the challenges faced in widening participation. Each participant will receive a free summary report of the Institute for Employment Studies findings. John Healey MP, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Adult Skills has been invited to give the Keynote Address.
The conference will also provide the opportunity for twelve projects to display outcomes of their work, for learners to talk about their experiences and for four projects to present examples of their reaching, teaching and learning strategies.
| For further details please contact Philippa Cattell on telephone 0116 204 4245, fax 0116 854 8368 or email philippa.cattell@niace.org.uk OR visit the webpage about the Conference. |
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Web Supplement to NIACE's 80th Anniversary Book
In November 2001, NIACE published "A Passion for Learning" - a book which celebrates 80 years of NIACE support for adult learning. The book is a series of reflections from contributors who have shared in the life of the organisation, whether by being involved directly as staff or as volunteers from the adult education profession who gave time in both key and support roles, working for the Institute.
NIACE has now launched a website supplement to the book at www.niace.org.uk/publications/anniversary which carries a selection of contributions which do not appear in the book. These recollections and narratives nostalgically remember how NIACE, its forebears and its chief officers touched lives during the past eight decades.
In concluding the website entry, the present director of NIACE, Alan Tuckett, reviews the organisation, where it is today: vibrant, changing, and facing new challenges. NIACE, for all its 80 years, is well, alive, active and committed to promoting adult learning and learners forward into this new century.
| A Passion for Learning, Howard Gilbert, Helen Prew, can be purchased online, priced £8.99 ( ISBN 1 86201 128 1). |
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