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NIACE response to interim UCAS figures

The drop of 14.4% in UCAS applications since 2011, from those aged 25 and over, is more than double the average overall drop of 6.4%. These are findings from the latest application figures released by UCAS and are of concern to NIACE.

National Extension College out of administration

The education charity, the Open School Trust, is the new owner of The National Extension College (NEC), which has been bought from the Learning and Skills Network after it went into administration last month.

NIACE joins the Age Action Alliance

NIACE is a founder member of the Age Action Alliance, launched this month, a network of national and local agencies working together to celebrate the lives of older people and to improve the lives of the most marginalised.

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Adults Learning Journal

Latest Adults Learning focuses on the Colleges in their Communities inquiry and the government’s reform of HE and includes reflections on civic learning, social value and the Big Society

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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