The BBC is running a competition called My Story in which the winning stories will be made into a TV series. The top five will be published in a book and most of the entries will make their way onto the BBC web site.
NCS tutor, Joanna Howard, may be able to give you some help [...]
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BBC Writing Competition
October 6th, 2009 · No Comments · English, Literature and Languages, General News, NCS, NCS Courses, Your Story - Writing a Life
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Adult Learners’ Week
May 5th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Adult Learning, Anthropology and Archaeology, Astronomy, Examples of Online Learning, Health and Welfare, Help for Online Learners, Journalism, Learning Resources, NCS, NCS Courses, Philosophy, Researching Herbal Remedies: The Science behind the Old Wives' Tales
Adult Learners’ Week runs from 9th to 15th May this year and NCS is doing its bit to support it. You can try some course snippets and a complete free course over at the NCS ALW page. Try a course on Archaeology, Health Care or Herbology. It’s all free for Adult Learners’ Week.
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New Philosophy Course at NCS
April 3rd, 2009 · No Comments · NCS, Philosophy
Hot on the heels of yesterday’s new Apollo course, the NCS is proud to announce another new course, Feminist Philosophy. Course tutor, Jenifer Booth will be leading students through the writings of women philosophers whose work reveals some key aspects of current feminist thought. Aimed at a more general learner than the philosophy specialist, Jenifer [...]
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Cloisters 21 Now Available
September 11th, 2008 · No Comments · Anthropology and Archaeology, Cloisters Magazine, NCS
Cloisters 21, the latest edition of our magazine is out now. It is available as an online electronic magazine at http://issuu.com/cloisters/docs/cloisters21. You can read it there in comfort and style.
Post your comments on the new magazine here, and let us know if you have any ideas for future articles.
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NCS Open Space is now… Open
May 16th, 2008 · No Comments · Adult Learning, Examples of Online Learning, NCS
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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Adult Learners’ Week - launch of NCS Open Space
May 7th, 2008 · No Comments · Adult Learning, Examples of Online Learning, NCS
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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The NCS Blog
February 3rd, 2008 · No Comments · NCS
We have a blog. We’ve taken a while to get round to setting one up, but we have finally taken the plunge. What we didn’t want to do was to create a blog just for the sake of having a blog. After all, there are millions of blogs out there: what would be the point [...]
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