UK LAGGING BEHIND: LEARNING AND SKILLS CAN TACKLE POVERTY AND PRODUCTIVITY
Urgent action needed to support millions of adults improve their English and Maths A report released today by Learning & Work Institute (L&W), funded by…
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Learning and Work Institute propose a new system of Personal Learning Accounts
Today, Learning and Work Institute have published a new policy paper reigniting the debate around funding for lifetime learning by proposing a new system of…
We can’t wait 200 years to halve disability employment gap: IntoWork Convention 2016
People with disabilities and health conditions are far less likely to be in work. While 80 per cent of those who are not disabled are…
What’s needed to reform prison education?
The Queen’s Speech included some bold proposals for prison reform which look consistent with Micharl Gove’s thinking when he was at education – freedom to…
Britain’s ticking time bomb of poor literacy and numeracy
Most of us take for granted being able to understand the instructions with our medicine or check our change in the shop. Yet shocking statistics from the…
New year, new job?
After the excesses of Christmas, many of us will now be thinking about how to pay off the bills, a task made harder by the…
NIACE and CESI announce merger plans
NIACE was the main advocacy body for adult learning in England and Wales and probably the largest body devoted to adult education in the world. On 1 January 2016…
NIACE and Inclusion alliance – David Hughes Interview
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4m9H5Dinz8 David Hughes, chief executive of the National Institute of Adult Continuing Education (NIACE), chats today (13 Mar 2015) about his alliance with the Centre…
NIACE and Inclusion forge strategic alliance
The National Institute of Adult Continuing Education is partnering up with the Centre for Economic and Social Inclusion in the first step of a possible…
Lifelong learning is key to UK digital growth, says NIACE
The National Institute of Adult Continuing Education (NIACE) has called for everyone to be given the chance to participate in the UK’s increasingly digital society,…