OCN Northern Ireland
NEWS
PRISON STAFF ACCREDITED TO BENEFIT PRISONERS
16-12-09
On 11th September, nine prison officers from all three prison establishments were presented with certificates at an event hosted in Magilligan to celebrate their achievement in successfully completing NIACRO’s OCN NI accredited course “Exploring Benefits and Tax Credits in the Criminal Justice System.”
OCN NI Move to New Offices
20-07-09
On Friday 10th July 2009 Open College Network Northern Ireland moved to new office premises on Heron Road, Sydenham Business Park, Belfast. Heron Road is conveniently located close to George Best City Airport and easily accessible via the Hollywood Exchange.
OCN NI welcomes the new Qualifications and Credit Framework (QCF)
24-05-09
Open College Network Northern Ireland’s (OCNNI) Chief Executive Brendan Clarke welcomed the ministerial statement on the new Qualifications and Credit Framework (QCF). He highlighted that OCNNI has been at the heart of credit based learning in Northern Ireland since 1993 with close to 200,000 learners in Northern Ireland having already been enrolled in credit based courses through OCN NI.
The Deloitte Employability Initiative- Enhance the employability of your students: free CPD for your staff
07-05-09
Staying on-site: the secret of workbased learning
09-04-09
Brendan Clarke CEO for OCN NI explains the developments in work-based learning and how it can be applied to good use within the health service.
Building on the positives
09-04-09
Open College Network Northern Ireland CEO Brendan Clarke and Woodlands Juvenile Justice Centre Programmes Manager Louise Ormsby explain how the centre is building resilience, skills capacity and social capital in young learners in custody through new qualifications being used by the social care team.
Making the connections in the diversity of learning
09-04-09
OCN Northern Ireland’s Chief Executive, Brendan Clarke, explains his organisation’s broad view of learning to Owen McQuade.
Schools, colleges and universities are often the first places that spring to mind when the word learning is mentioned but Open College Network Northern Ireland (OCN NI) is seeking to widen the word’s definition. “The National Open College Network (NOCN) originated about 25 years ago, reflecting the need to recognise learning wherever it actually takes place,” Brendan Clarke explains. “There was a lot of traditional, structured, engaged learning activity. The regional OCNs grew out of the need and the determination to recognise the enormous range and context of adult learning that was taking place but was being diluted or lost because it wasn’t being recognised.”
OCN NI Launches New Website
06-03-09
March 2009 saw the launch of our new website which has been redesigned in collaboration with Websolutions NI. The website has been re-launched with a vibrant new look, new content, significant layout updates and alternative text sizing options.
OCN NI recognised centre receives National Training Award
18-02-09
Action Cancer, Northern Ireland’s leading local cancer charity, is celebrating recognition for its ground breaking Listening Ear Service with a National Training Award. The National Training Awards (NTA) identifies and celebrates organisations and individuals that have achieved really outstanding business and personal success through investment in training.
Realise Your Potential with EGSA
03-02-09
Realising Your Potential (RYP) and Developing Your Potential (DYP) are 12 hour workshops based on guidance principles. The workshops are aimed at anygroup of adults in the community or workplace who could benefit from engaging or progressing in learning.
Our Vision Statement
To be recognised and respected as the leading credit based learning and development body in Ireland, promoting social inclusion, wider participation and community transformation.
