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Wireless Outreach Network (WON) - projects beware
It has come to NIACE's attention that people are being e-mailed by sales companies offering to help organisations fill in their round 2 proposal form for the WON Project. Please be aware that these companies are not working on NIACE's behalf. Only organisations who completed the round 1 Expression of Interest form and were informed that they were successful in this round, are eligible to complete the round 2 proposal form.
For further details please contact Jackie Essom on jackie.essom@niace.org.uk.
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Guidance on Providing extended services through schools
On 30 October 2002, the Department for Education and Skills (DfES) launched its guidance on how schools can broaden their role in the community. The guidance explains how schools can provide extended services such as childcare, study support, arts and sports, adult education and healthcare for children, families and adults.
Background
As a result of the Education Act 2002, schools now have greater
opportunities to provide services for the community. An extended school is one
that provides a range of services and activities often beyond the school day to
help meet the needs of its pupils, their families and the wider community.
Across the country many schools are already providing some extended services including childcare, adult education, study support, ICT facilities and community sports programmes. A few are starting to provide health and social care.
Schools offering extended activities and services have already seen major benefits for pupils and schools, families and the community.
This new guidance from the DfES explains more about how schools can provide these other services, working together with local partners. Separate guidance on setting up school-based childcare is also available. Both sets of guidance are available from the links below.
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NIACE Conference
"Schools are for adults too" is the title of a conference NIACE is holding
in London on 25 November 2002.
This conference will explore the role of schools in adult learning and its development in terms of the current policy context and illustrates examples of innovation and good practice in workshop sessions. It will introduce NIACE’s policy paper “Schools are for Adults too” which argues the critical importance of the school in developing learning communities, in regeneration and in family learning and which we hope will encourage practitioners and local and national politicians to re-evaluate the role of schools. Both the conference and the policy paper will emphasise the central importance of partnership-working if schools are to contribute effectively to building learning communities.
The conference is aimed at school heads, deputy and assistant heads, college principals and managers, adult, youth and community education officers from Local Education Authorities, Learning and Skills Councils and Local Government.
Speakers will include:
 | Alan Tuckett, Director, NIACE |
| Judith Summers, ACL Development Officer, Lifelong Learning Development, Cheshire County Council |
| Dr. John Dunford, General Secretary, Secondary Heads Association |
| Dr. Chris Jude, Head of Lifelong Learning, Islington Regeneration and Education Department |
| Phil Street, Director, Community Education Development Centre, Coventry |
Further details including a programme and booking form can be found here.
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The Fred Moore Institutional Awards 2002/3
In memory of Fred Moore, Oldest Learner in England 2000
Is your organisation involved in providing learning opportunities for older people? The Fred Moore Institutional Awards offer you the chance to have your work recognised and rewarded.
This new competition builds on the success of the Older & Bolder Institutional Awards 1996 - 1999 and the 2001 Celebrating Older Learners Campaign, which highlighted the wide range of activities and settings for formal and informal learning that older people are engaged in.
The awards give winners the opportunity to promote their work through national and local publicity.
Themes for 2002/3
Applications are invited from organisations demonstrating innovation and
good practice in the provision of learning opportunities for older people.
Four awards in total will be made, in the form of a trophy and certificate.
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Criteria for demonstrating innovation and good practice could include some or all of the following:
| involving older people in planning processes. |
| programme development in collaboration or partnership with other agencies. |
| clear opportunities for access to and personal progression from the programme . |
| outreach attempting to target and reach normally excluded groups of older people, e.g. those from minority ethic communities, those with minimum income in retirement, those in care settings, those who have not benefited previously from post-school education. |
| evaluation and planning to embed and extend the work. |
| information tracking the numbers of older people involved |
Who can apply?
The competition is open to organisations in England. Entry is not restricted
to formal education providers. Previous awards have been made across the
voluntary sector, higher education, local authorities, self-help education
groups and further education. Applications are encouraged from all organisations
and consortia demonstrating positive action in reaching and working with older
learners.
| Applications To apply, please download and complete the application form below and send, with supporting evidence if you wish, to Gill Aird, Administrator Older & Bolder, NIACE, 21 De Montfort Street, Leicester, LE1 7GE. Email: gillian.aird@niace.org.uk.
Closing date for applications: 21 January 2003. |
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The Global Learning Challenge
The Development Education Association (DEA) in partnership with NIACE and the Workers' Educational Association (WEA) have been working on a Department for International Development (DFID) funded project to promote global perspectives in adult learning.
The DEA have produced a briefing document and are holding a series of three free seminars to disseminate the publication.
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