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Adult Learners’ Week - launch of NCS Open Space

May 7th, 2008 · No Comments · Adult Learning, Examples of Online Learning, NCS Information, Uncategorized

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.
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Dwindling ‘Safeguarded’ Adult Learners

April 17th, 2008 · No Comments · Adult Learning

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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