The 3rd Shared Island Forum showcased great opportunities for collaboration and innovation across the island. Thank you.

Aine Kerr chairing #festivaloflearning with Dr Patrick McCarthy from the US providing the first keynote, championing prevention & early intervention in government.

The tears are running down my cheeks laughing! It’s worth a watch to end. The mum just keeps going 🤣

Today is #InternationalLiteracyDay and to celebrate our forthcoming #OpenDoor Anthology 'Voices' we are giving away 5 free copies! @patriciascanl18 @nalaireland @AnPostIBAS #ReadingMatters Simply *retweet* for chance to win. Winners will be announced tomorrow.

Fantastic news

A milestone for community and voluntary organisations, charities and social enterprises on the island of Ireland: the first ever joint board meeting of @The_Wheel_IRL and @NICVA in Belfast today. Lots of ideas for joint all-island work..... Thanks for hosting, our turn next time!

Delighted to see such support for adult literacy at the An Post sponsor of the Book Awards #AnPostBookAwards

We have moved from a school crisis to a learning crisis according to head of Finnish Education Agency and this is driving reforms in Finland including a 1st adult basic skills policy #EUvocationalSkillsWeek

Witnessed leading Irish FET figures doing a mini step class!

Great presentation from Margaret Reilly 🇨🇮 on her valuable experience of doing an apprenticeship and her rewarding career #EUVocationalSkills #nala #adultliterary #upskilling #mathsweek19 #LiteracyChangesLives

Listen to how literacy changes lives

Online Discussion from 2nd to 3rd of April: Integrating #Migrant #Adults through #Language #Training. Join the discussion here https://t.co/CiulXxCf2R … #literacy #linguistics #adultliteracy #adulteducation #learningforall @EPALE_EU @EBSNhq

LitBase, the Effective Literacy and Numeracy Practices database, lets you discover examples of best practice from around the globe! This year, we are celebrating 10 years of LitBase! Explore more than 200 best practice cases: https://t.co/26jeqAjIuN

Here in Ennis for the Family Learning conference and looking forward to the workshops below #familylearning2019

On way to first full day of conference with delegates from 33 countries and exciting inputs.

NALA is tendering for a research project to define and support the measurement of the positive effect of literacy strategies and initiatives. Closing date is Thursday 21 March at 5 pm. More information here

We deal with a wide range of public sector complaints. See our Education Factsheet to see what you can do if you have a complaint about a publicly funded education body https://t.co/aFSxMUXwyk

This is worrying but not surprising - we are very aware that people with qualifications may also have literacy, numeracy and digital needs. Ireland needs a more ambitious and aligned whole-of-government strategy for basic skills over the next 10 years.

Declan Black, Managing Partner, on the benefits of using plain English in the legal sector at the @nalaireland #PlainEnglishAwards

‘Huge drop’ in literacy levels of Irish university graduates – OECD study