Adult Learners' Week 2012 Awards

Please read the Awards' Guidance Notes before completing this form

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Click on a section heading to open that section. You must answer Parts 1,2,4 & 5. Part 3 can be completed by the project you are nominating.

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Adult Learners' Week 2012 Awards

Inspiring Learning Projects

Closing Date: 27 January 2012

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Part 1: Contact Details

Part 2: The Project

Please answer the following questions about your project.

How many learners did your project engage: (if none, enter "0")

in 2009?*

in 2010?*

in 2011?*

Does your project offer qualifications?: Yes No

How many learners achieved qualifications: (if none, enter "0")

in 2009?*

in 2010?*

in 2011?*

Were the learners' awarded by any of the following qualifications (please tick as many as appopriate):

Please tell us about the project you are nominating. In your statement, please include: *
- aims and objectives of the project;
- key activities related to engaging participants in learning; and
- progression routes offered to learners involved in the project.

Maximum of 5000 characters (including spaces). This answer is compulsory. Tip: to count your characters as you go along, use a word processing package to type up your answer and then copy and paste it into this box.

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What has been remarkable about the achievements of the learners and the progression they have made?*

Maximum of 5000 characters (including spaces). This answer is compulsory. Tip: to count your characters as you go along, use a word processing package to type up your answer and then copy and paste it into this box.

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How do you monitor and evaluate the success of your project and what are you doing to ensure your project continues to run in the future?*

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NIACE celebrates learners' achievements within projects. If you know a learner who would like to tell us about their learning experience through your project, please tell us how to contact them by completing ALL of the following optional details: (This will help us to gain a fuller picture of your project.)

First name:

Learner's First Name.
Surname/Family name:

Learner's Surname/Family name.
Daytime phone number:

Learner's Daytime phone number.
Email address of the learner:

We need the learner's email address to send them Part 3 of the nomination form to complete.
Confirm email address:

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Part 3: Learner's Journey

This is an optional section completed by one of your learners. When you submit this form, the learner you have specified in Part 2 will be sent an email containing a link to another (optional) form which they can complete to supplement their nomination.

Please continue with your nomination by completing Parts 4 and 5 below.

Part 4: Special Awards

Your nomination may be eligible for a special award.

European Social Fund

If your nominee's learning has been funded in any way by the European Social Fund (ESF) please complete this section to also be considered for this category.

Was the learning undertaken part-funded by the European Social Fund?* Yes (Please complete the questions in the box below)
No (Skip the ESF-related questions in the box below) Please select.

If Yes, please tell us the:

Name of the training provider:

Please enter the name of the training provider.

This field is required.
Name of the ESF project/learning programme:

Please enter the name of the ESF project/learning programme.

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Period that the project/programme is being part-funded by ESF (if known): From: To:
Please use the date pickers () to select a date or enter in the format (dd/mm/yyyy)

Is the project ESF co-financed through a Co-financing Organisation (CFO)?

Yes, co-financed through a CFO

No, not co-financed through a CFO

If YES, please answer the following two questions

Please give the name of the Co-financing Organisation (CFO) (e.g. Department for Work and Pensions, Skills Funding Agency, National Offender Management Service or other...)

Please give the name of the Co-financing Organisation (CFO) (e.g. Department for Work and Pensions, Skills Funding Agency, National Offender Management Service or other...)

This field is required.
Please give the contact details for the CFO/ESF Manager (if known)

If NO

Please enter the name of the non-CFO, ESF funding organisation. This field is required.

The European Social Fund (ESF) part-funds Adult Learners' Week. The ESF is a European initiative that invests in jobs and skills. See www.esf.gov.uk for more information.

Would your learner be eligible for the following Award?

Digital Participation Award (sponsored by BBC )
This award recognises learning where the use of new technology and/or broadcasting has been central to learning opportunities.

Learning Where You Are Awards (sponsored by The Open University )
These awards will celebrate outstanding and inspiring project that have worked with their learners to provide original, innovative and creative ways to engage and support learners in challenging contexts throughout their learning journey.

Part 5: Declaration

Adult Learners' Week is all about using the existing stories of learners to motivate others.

By submitting this form, you confirm that:

The information supplied by you is correct to the best of your knowledge and that the statements are true and accurate.
You wish for this project to be nominated for an Adult Learners' Week Award and agree to your name and other information contained in this form to be passed on to third parties, including the press and media, for use in publicity purposes.

Equal Opportunities Statement

NIACE is committed to equality of opportunity both as an employer and as an Institute concerned with adult learning. In implementing this commitment NIACE aims to ensure that no-one receives less favourable treatment on the grounds of gender, disability and/or learning difficulty, age, race colour, nationality, ethnic background or national origin, economic or marital status, sexuality, political or religious beliefs, language or culture. NIACE reserves the right to add further categories to these groups.

Data Protection statement

The National Institute of Adult Continuing Education (NIACE) is registered under the Data Protection Act 1998 (Registration Number Z7412510). Personal information supplied to NIACE may be stored securely and used in relation to NIACE's work. Full details of the purposes for which NIACE processes personal information is in our Data Protection Register entry, which can be found on the Information Commissioner's website www.ico.gov.uk . At no time will we divulge personal information to other organisations without your express consent.

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Have you completed all relevant sections?

The deadline for receipt of applications is 5pm FRIDAY 27 January 2012.

Adult Learners' Week - 12-18 May 2012

Adult Learners' Week 2012 Awards

Inspiring Learning Projects

Closing Date: 27 January 2012

Type of organisation you represent*

Are you or your organisation a NIACE member

Where did you hear about the Adult Learners' Week Awards?

European Social Fund

Would your learner be eligible for the following Award?

Adult Learners' Week is all about using the existing stories of learners to motivate others.

By submitting this form, you confirm that:

Equal Opportunities Statement

Data Protection statement

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