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December's Headlines |
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NIACE makes a commitment to
disability equality NIACE has demonstrated its dedication to disability equality by signing the commitment called for by Lifelong Learning UK’s Disability Equality Implementation Group (DEIG). |
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Right to a Voice campaign boosted by widespread support Over 50 organisations and individuals have pledged to help NIACE with our A Right to a Voice Campaign to help asylum seekers get free English classes. |
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Myleene Klass encourages adults to Sign Up Now to learning Musician and presenter, Myleene Klass, is encouraging adults to take up learning as their New Year’s resolution this January, by backing Sign Up Now - a national campaign from NIACE. |
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NIACE wins bid for programme against elder abuse NIACE – in a partnership led by AGE (the European Older People’s Platform) – will be working on a high-profile project to prevent elder abuse against older women. |
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Invitation to tender NIACE intends to put its publications storage and distribution contract out to tender for the period 1 April 2009 to 31 March 2012 with the possibility of a two-year extension. All tenders must be for both storage and distribution. |
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Asylum seekers need free English classes, urges campaign Asylum seekers should be entitled to free English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) and not have to wait until their claims for asylum have been approved. This is the principal aim of A Right to a Voice - a campaign being launched in London on 10 December 2008, on the 60th Anniversary of the UN Declaration of Human Rights, by NIACE. |
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Right to a Voice - Kaiwan's Story To highlight why NIACE has launched the campaign – A Right to a Voice – Ed Melia, NIACE Press Officer, spoke to Kaiwan Mahmud, an Adult Learners’ Week winner from 2007. Kaiwan talks about his life in Iraq, his long journey to England and how he adapted to life here. |
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Media Literacy Film NIACE has produced a film illustrating examples of how people across the country are becoming more media literate through their ability to access, understand and create a variety of media – IT, audio and video – to a range of different audiences. |
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Pan-European Preparatory Conference for CONFINTEA The CONFINTEA preparatory conference is taking place in Budapest 3-5 December 2008. Click here for a copy of Helen Keogh's keynote presentation (MS PowerPoint - 580kb) of the draft regional report, Adult Learning and Education in Europe, North America and Israel. |
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role of role of local authorities in adult learning Especially at a time of economic uncertainty, local authorities have a duty to support all kinds of learning opportunities to ensure the wellbeing of all of their residents. This is one of the key messages of NIACE’s conference held in London on 1st December 2008. |
November's Headlines |
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role of role of local authorities in adult learning Especially at a time of economic uncertainty, local authorities have a duty to support all kinds of learning opportunities to ensure the wellbeing of all of their residents. This is one of the key messages of NIACE’s conference held in London on 1st December 2008. |
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Bringing assessment for learning into the digital agenda A book that helps teachers use digital cameras, MP3 players and mobile phones to carry out Assessment for Learning has been published on Thursday 13th November 2008 - by NIACE. |
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Millions of adults lack access to computers and internet - new research
shows Over one-third (36%) of adults do not have access to a computer and over two-fifths (42%) lack access to the Internet. These are the headline findings of the Annual Media Literacy Survey 2008 from NIACE, published on Monday 17th November 200, at a joint NIACE/Ofcom Media Literacy Conference in London. |
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Generation Learning Technology has had a positive impact in many areas of adult learning – as Becta’s Next Generation Learning campaign says, “In the classroom and at home, technology can excite learners, offer new ways to do things and make learning fun.” |
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NIACE surveys to measure impact of technology in learning Recent regular advances in technology have had a huge impact on adult learning, however not all providers are making the best use of technology. To help gain a clearer picture on the use of technology in learning - and support the government’s Harnessing Technology strategy - NIACE will be carrying out surveys on behalf of Becta, who will publish the findings in March 2009. |
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Ofsted survey confirms NIACE's concerns over
‘Train to Gain’ NIACE’s main concern about the Train to Gain programme – that there is little evidence that it increases demand for training amongst employers and that it has engaged too few ‘hard to reach’ employers - have been highlighted in Ofsted’s survey, The impact of Train to Gain on skills in employment, which was published on Friday 7th November 2008. |
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NIACE mentioned during Prime Minister’s Question
Time John Hayes MP, Shadow Minister for Skills, mentioned NIACE in a question to the Prime Minister on Wednesday 5th November 2008 about the falling numbers of opportunities for adults to learn. |
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Dramatic impact of how learning can help overcome
exclusion for women The Government should do more to help the most disadvantaged women take part in learning, is the main message from a book published by the National Institute of Adult Continuing Education (NIACE). Dare to Dream: Learning journeys of Bangladeshi, Pakistani and Somali women looks at the many factors that can prevent participation in learning and what can be done to overcome these barriers. |
October's Headlines |
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New community development programme for all faith
leaders A new Faith Community Development Programme is looking for faith leaders, workers and volunteers who want to develop communication, representation, safeguarding and other skills. The programme will be launched on 1st November 2008 and will be held in Leicester, Tower Hamlets, Sheffield, Bradford, Manchester, Birmingham, Brent and at Northern College. NIACE will deliver this programme following their work on pilot courses for faith leaders which was completed in March 2008. |
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“Learning is vital to labour market”
NIACE response to government consultation Given the current economic climate, the welfare system faces even bigger challenges, but learning of all kinds can empower people to take control of their lives. This is the principal concern of NIACE’s response to the Department for Work and Pensions’ (DWP) welfare reform consultation. |
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Pack launched to help mental health and family learning practitioners Because mental health is often linked to emotional well-being it can affect the capacity to communicate, learn and sustain relationships. To help counter this, NIACE launched a resource pack encouraging a partnership between mental health and family learning practitioners, at the first of three dissemination seminars, in Leeds on Tuesday 14th October 2008. |
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evidence is it anyway? The October issue of Adults Learning has a strong research focus. John Field and Gert Biesta relate findings of important recent work – on wellbeing and learning biographies, respectively – while Stephen Gorard, in a challenging article, tackles the use to which research is put by policymakers and lobbyists. |
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Celebrate inspirational adult learners by nominating them for Adult
Learners' Week awards. Make sure the remarkable achievements of adult learners are given the recognition they deserve by nominating them for the Adult Learners’ Week Awards 2009. |
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NIACE finances hit by credit crunch NIACE – the National Institute of Adult Continuing Education - had invested £1.9m on a six-month fixed term deposit with the investment bank Kaupthing Singer & Friedlander which went into administration last week. This is about a quarter of NIACE’s net assets and was held as a medium term reserve (i.e. available to be called on in the event the cash was required but not our immediate working capital) and will not give any immediate solvency issues. However this will have consequences for NIACE’s future work. |
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NIACE helping to transform workplace culture Her Royal Highness, The Princess Royal, attended her first Public Sector Workplace Seminar yesterday – Thursday, 9th October - as Patron of the National Institute of Adult Continuing Education (NIACE). This successful event highlighted the work of NIACE’s Public Sector programme which is funded by the Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills (DIUS). |
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Forces Basic Skills Longitudinal Study As Phase one of the report into the Armed Forces Basic Skills Longitudinal Study is launched Martin Rose, NIACE Assistant Director (Army Project), gives an insight into NIACE’s role in helping the Armed Forces improve Basic Skills. |
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Prison Service makes great start on skills pledge The varied activities undertaken by Her Majesty’s Prison Service (HMPS) in order to start identifying and addressing its workforce’s basic skills needs are detailed in a publication - HM Prison Service: Professionalising the workforce – launched on Thursday 9th October. |
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Responds to Informal Adult Learning Consultation The Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills (DIUS) has today – Thursday, 9th October – responded to a consultation on informal adult learning which ran from 13th January to 12th June 2008. Informal Adult Learning – Shaping The Way Ahead received 5,500 responses from individuals and organisations across the public, private, voluntary and self-organised sectors. |
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Publication launched to encourage learning
between families and museums Encouraging families to get more involved with learning activities in the museums, galleries, libraries and archives sector will be easier due to a booklet published on Wednesday 8th October 2008. Families, learning and culture is being launched at the Museum Association annual conference and exhibition - the UK’s largest museum and gallery event - and is a joint publication between NIACE and the Museums, Libraries and Archives Council (MLA). |
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World Teachers’ Day To acknowledge the vital role that teachers play, from pre-school to adult learning in the 4th age - October 5th is designated as World Teachers’ Day. |
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A Movement Is Born On Tuesday 30th September 2008 nearly 200 people came together in London to launch the Campaign Alliance for Lifelong Learning (CALL). |
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Improvements in ESOL provision welcomed by NIACE
Improvements in ESOL provision have been enthusiastically welcomed by NIACE. The Ofsted report, published on Friday 3rd October 2008, on the quality of provision of English for speakers of other languages (ESOL) found that provision has improved steadily and only 1 of the 16 colleges visited were judged less than satisfactory. |
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Learning and Skills Improvement Service (LSIS)
launched Learning and Skills Improvement Service (LSIS) has gone live after the Centre for Excellence in Leadership (CEL) and the Quality Improvement Agency (QIA) have successfully completed the transfer of their contracts. |
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National campaign launched to help adults
overcome fear of maths Seventeen million adults in the UK – that’s almost one in three - have difficulty with numbers. To help counter this, a national numeracy campaign - Maths Takes You There - was launched on Thursday 2nd October 2008, by NIACE with funding from the Learning and Skills Council (LSC). |
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Age Discrimination Legislation NIACE is currently in discussion with Government and lawyers on the balance of the law concerning Age Discrimination Legislation and how this affects providers. NIACE’s overall concern has been that providers avoid any legal risk where they make an objective judgement about concessionary policy. |
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Campaign launch in defence of adult education A photography competition, Growing Old Disgracefully, has been launched today – Wednesday 1st October 2008 to coincide with UN Day of Older Persons – by NIACE and Mature Times. The competition is open to anyone in the UK aged 55 and over and encourages older people to illustrate the wide variety of ways and places older people learn. |
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Growing Old Disgracefully photography competition
launched Following the loss of 1.5 million learner places in the past two years, a new campaign to defend adult education will be launched on 30 September 2008. The Campaigning Alliance for Lifelong Learning (CALL) is an alliance founded by five organisations, with 36 others joining since its inception. |
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