OCN Northern Ireland
NEWS
OCNNI Community Development Awards
27-01-12
OCNNI have received confirmation from Ofqual that they have recognised our newly developed Awards in Community Development.
600/4548/6 OCN NI Level 1 Award in Community Development (QCF)
600/4549/8 OCN NI Level 2 Award in Community Development (QCF)
600/4550/4 OCN NI Level 3 Award in Community Development (QCF)
Qualification Withdrawal - Level 1 Award In Preparation for Event Volunteering (Personal Best) (QCF)
26-01-12
This qualification has been withdrawn with effect from 31/01/2012 following an instruction from SkillsActive SSC. Please note that as the qualification has had a good uptake and to protect the interest of learners, NOCN will submit a replacement qualification as soon as possible at Certificate level with revised units and just one additional credit and the SCC has already confirmed that they will support this development.
Working in Partnership to deliver equality advice on the frontline
18-07-11
Citizens Advice and the Equality Commission have developed a partnership to provide a network of qualified advisors who can identify possible cases of discrimination and provide a direct referral for free legal advice from the Commission.
Advantage Training Wins Star Award for Ulster
02-03-11
Advice NI is delighted to have been awarded an Aontas Star Award for its Advantage Training programme. The Aontas Adult Learners Festival is an all-Ireland awards programme and Advice NI was presented with the accolade as winner for Ulster at a ceremony which took place in Dublin this week.
RCN Representatives’ Learning & Development to get a quality boost
03-02-11
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Belfast Health & Social Care Trust HR Learning and Development win National Award
29-06-10
The Lifelong Learning Team within Learning and Development, have won the National HPMA Award for Innovation in HR with their work on the Unleashing Talent Passport.
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.”
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.
