Press releases and latest newsletters are in date order.
Update your personal and organisational details by completing the NIACE data update form.
See the new Chips with Everything which is a newsletter regularly produced by NIACE's ICT and Learning team and provides updates on the programme to develop the use of e-learning within adult learning. It includes news about funding streams, information about e-learning projects and future plans for e-learning in adult learning.
May 2008
Professor Ray Johnson from Staffordshire University has kindly donated a great deal of archive film and photographs to Haywood Learning Centre in Burslem.
The themes of Adult Learners' Week 2008
West Midlands Pariticpation Survey - Survey results show a huge fall in number of adults who learn in the West Midlands
Adults 'dropping out of learning' BBC web report. Thousands of adults targeted by government skills-boosting schemes have dropped out of evening classes, a survey of 5,000 people suggests.
Employer Training Spend Hits Record High at £38 billion. Workforce spends 218 million days training Extra 77,000 businesses commit to training - Train to Gain service helping businesses see the benefits of training.
Three new National Skills Academies expand Network. Today David Lammy announced the expansion of the National Skills
Academy network with the approval of three new National Skills, Academies: Sport and Active Leisure, Creative and Cultural and Hospitality.
New accreditation system launched to address UK skills gaps. Training Quality Standard brings trainers and employers together to develop skills that employers really want.
In ToUCh 18th May. This issue features the release of the TUC's groundbreaking report on vulnerable working, the latest on the campaign for fair taxation, and, thirty years on from the creation of the May Day bank holiday, a call for a new public holiday.
Skills Minister hails union learning as a lifeline for workplace learners. Skills Minister David Lammy praised the work of a network which has worked with over 100 trade union learning centres that he will relaunch today (Wednesday 14 May) for helping tens of thousands of learners on to courses.
Virgin Media and Digital Unite to help older people in sheltered housing get online (Silver Surfers).
LSC Single Equailty Scheme Support Program - nationwide. The West Midlands event is in Birmingham on June 26th.
CELR Conference: Land is a Finite Resource - Using it to Advantage. 13th May 2008 at Austin Court, Birmingham. Read about it in the RegenWM May newsletter.
Better late than never - worthwhile reading for providers are the LSC West Midlands Provider Bulletin for February and the LSC West Midlands Provider Bulletin for April.
April 2008
Find out more about Silver Surfers Day and how to get involved...
March 08
UNESCO has declared 2008 to be the International Year of Languages.
My Tme's latest e-newsletter details current projects and how to contact them if you are interested in their services.
Skills for Life Strategy Unit's latest updates with information on campaigns and consultations.
