NCS News

 
Universities in England and Wales are warning that a funding shortfall will mean a freeze on extra places. The statement came in response to a letter from the Higher Education Funding Council for England, saying “at this stage” there will be no allocations of extra places until 2011. More from the BBC…
However, there are no plans [...]

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Two new courses have been introduced to the catalogue of the NCS College of Online Learning. These are “Your Story - Writing A Life” and “The Wonderful World Of Psychology.” 
If you have feel you have life experiences that would interest a wider readership, then Joanna Howard’s course could provide you with the tools to create [...]

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Trent Batson of Campus Technology has raised the question: “Is College Necessary in a Knowledge-Drenched World?” The point being that, when we have so much technology in our homes that libraries, art galleries and other institutional places have difficulty competing, do people need to attend a college to get an education?
Well, it seems that most [...]

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We are proud to announce that our NCS Open Space is now open. Here you can try out a small range of course ’snippets,’ from Egyptian Archaeology, to astronomy. We are launching this as part of Adult Learners’ Week 2008, but NCS Open Space will remain open from now on.
The course snippets themselves will change, so [...]

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Peter Davies, principal of City Lit, is concerned that the Government’s desire to promote what it terms “informal adult learning” may herald the decline of traditional classes and leave many learners to study alone with little more than the support of the internet.
A consultation paper published in January by the Department for Innovation, Universities and [...]

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As part of our contribution to Adult Learners’ Week we are launching our NCS Open Space.
In the NCS Open Space you can try a sample of our courses - course snippets - and try a liitle light learning. Each snippet should take no more than around 15 minutes to complete.
To find out more visit our [...]

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In the last year, 55000 ’safeguarded’ adult learning places have been lost in the UK. This is in addition to the 1.4 million lost to the change in direction away from purely ‘educational’ courses to ‘vocational’ learning. A report from NIACE gives the details….

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Ever wanted to learn in your sleep? Forget playing a tape beside your bed, just switch on your iPhone and slip it under your pillow when you go to sleep.
All you need to do is download and install a new application for the iPhone - iSleepLearn. Once installed you copy over any online course via [...]

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The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development has published a report from the Centre for Educational Research and Innovation which links continued adult learning with reduced risk for neurodegenerative diseases. The report, entitled ‘Understanding the Brain: The Birth of a Learning Science,’ presents a review of recent developments in neuroscience as applied to the process [...]

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Academics are becoming worried that government policies that emphasize learning as a route to employment are undermining the ethos of our universities and colleges. Vice-chancellors throughout England and Wales report that students are taking courses which they hate in order to enter high-paid work on graduation and that fewer and fewer students are taking subjects [...]

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