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A Higher Skills Ambition for NI: Skills for growth and social inclusion

A higher skills ambition for Northern Ireland. Skills for growth and social inclusion. Research Launch – Wednesday 27th January 2021. 2.00pm - 4.00pm. Economic growth and social inclusion are intrinsically linked to education and skills, so a strong learning culture is essential to all modern economies. The findings of this independent research however shows how economic growth has tended to be weaker in N. Ireland over the...

A wellbeing society – the role of adult learning in post-pandemic Wales

Keynote and Q&A with Kirsty Williams MS, Minister for Education, Welsh Government There is a growing consensus that across the UK a serious commitment to the rejuvenation and development of adult education and lifelong learning is needed. Recovery from the coronavirus pandemic and the challenges presented by our exit from the European Union place more...

Launch of Learn Well, Live Well Report

The Learn Well, Live Well: adult learning and health and wellbeing report has been produced over the past few months as part of the UK programme for the European Agenda on Adult Learning (managed by the Learning and Work Institute). It has been compiled and edited by the NI Impact Forum on Adult Learning and...

Adult and Community Education in Northern Ireland: An AONTAS Collaboration

The event will provide a space for practitioners to share their experiences, outline barriers faced in the adult learning sector, build new relationships and learn from peers. FALNI and AONTAS are building a collaborative relationship based around our common concerns that cut across all of the island of Ireland and exploring how each organisation can...

Network of Adult Learning Across Borders

As part of the AONTAS-led events for the 2021 AONTAS Adult Learners’ Festival, this policy event will bring the members of the Network for Adult Learning Across Borders (NALAB), Republic of Ireland, Northern Ireland, England, Scotland and Wales, together to discuss our shared vision for educational equality and explore the variety of approaches taken by each in...

Creating a Culture of LIfelong Learning

One of the key recommendations of the OECD report which is informing the creation of the next Skills Strategy for NI, was the need to build a culture of lifelong learning. The Forum wants to start (and maintain) a conversation on this exciting proposal which we believe should be central to our next Programme for...

NIC ICTU Union Learn Conference

Union Learning Conference 2021 The Annual NIC ICTU Union Learning Conference will take place on Wednesday, 31st March 2021 via Zoom from 2.00pm to 4.00 pm. This year's theme, Future Skills and Recovery will utilise speakers to look at: Union Learning: Lockdown and Beyond ICTU No Going Back campaign Levelling up skills after coronavirus: The...

Building the Future of Adult/Lifelong Learning in NI

The next Impact Forum webinar will continue to stimulate thinking around the Skills Strategy recommendation on building a culture of lifelong learning in NI. We are securing a variety of speakers from different perspectives to help our visioning and exploration of what such a culture could be, how we could work together to achieve and...

Designing a Culture of Lifelong Learning

On Friday 22nd October we will hold our next webinar and hope that you will come along and lend your support and energy to further our thinking on creating a culture of lifelong learning for NI. Forum members have been busy in four working groups preparing ideas to share with you around key building blocks...

Supporting the Learner Voice

NICVA 61 Duncairn Gardens, Belfast

This seminar seeks to identify ways in which the voice of the adult learner in NI can be supported and strengthened to shape and undertake advocacy to influence policy and practice, across all sectors. We will hear from our colleagues at AONTAS about the National Further Education and Training (FET) Learner Forum and from our...

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Annual Conference and AGM

The conference will revive FALNI's report on Towards a Culture of Lifelong Learning and examine the importance of Place for focusing learning development. We will welcome Stephen Evans of the Learning & Work Institute as keynote speaker and also Ian Getgood from DfE. Other speakers will be announced at a later date. The morning will...