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New fund for innovative community learning

The Skills Funding Agency has launched the Community Learning Innovation Fund (CLIF) today, which will be managed by NIACE and will fund groups and organisations from across England for new and imaginative community learning opportunities.

NIACE response to Employer Skills Survey 2011

In response to the publication today of the Employer Skills Survey from the UK Commission for Employment and Skills, NIACE is concerned over the number of employers not carrying out any training, but believes more can be done to encourage them.

Lifelong learning and social mobility – a helpful start but more to do?

The publication by the Deputy Prime Minister of an update on progress towards improving social mobility in the UK on 22 May, is welcomed by NIACE for the recognition it gives to the role of lifelong learning.

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Adults Learning Journal

Latest Adults Learning marks 20 years of Adult Learners’ Week with reflections on the origins of the week and an exploration of the long-term benefits of learning, as captured in the stories of past winners of Adult Learners’ Week Awards

Informal adult community learning survey closed

NIACE has analysed over 6,500 responses from individuals and groups to its survey on informal adult community learning and has sent them to the Government to form part of its New Challenges, New Chances consultation.

20th Adult Learners’ Week highlights

A successful 20th Adult Learners' Week (14-20 May) in England is over, after hundreds of learning events across the country gave tens of thousands of adults the chance to try something new.

Every woman’s right to learn

A ten-point manifesto to help ensure every woman has the right to learn is being distributed by NIACE at the three main party conferences, which will lead to the publication of a final manifesto, ‘Every Woman's Right to Learn', on International Women's Day 2012.

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