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Useful Links

Community Learning Providers

CallNetNI - Site to link learners to local community provision

Community Development Learning Initiative - North West

Community Work Education & Training Network

Volunteer Development Agency

Workers Education Association

Fun Learning

Guinness Book of World Records

Internet Movie Database

National Virtual Museum - Celebrating UK Culture

Nature Navigator - a guide to British wildlilfe

Practical guide to family finance

Quotations website by subject

Wikipedia

General Learning Resources

BBC Big Yellow Bus - computer lessons

BBC Webwise site - online course to learn the internet

BULB - online academic search site

Encarta encylopaedia - US

Find Your Local Library

Free language translations

Google Site to search for academic articles

NMAP - online resources in nursing, midwifery, allied health professionals

National Library of Medicine full text journal search tool

Nursing Times

OMNI - online resources in health and medicine

Online newspapers from around the world

Oxford dictionary online

RDN Virtual Training Suite - free online tutorial to practice internet information skills

Support for Learning website - links to a broad range of resources

The British Library

The Free Library - Classic books by famous authors online

Word Power - Independent Radical Online Bookshop

Guidance for Learning

BBC Lifelong Learning Information Site

British Dyslexics

Education Guidance Service for Adults in Northern Ireland

Funding Advice for Students in Northern Ireland

Lifelong Learning UK

National Bureau for Students with Disabilities

National Institute of Adult Continuing Education

UK wide search tool for courses

Research on Learning

Centre for Research on the Wider Benefits of Learning

Education-line - database of papers, articles on education research and policy

European Association for Education of Adults

European Society for Research on the Education of Adults

Maths for Life - library of adult numeracy research

National Research and Development Centre for Adult Literacy and Numeracy

Resources for Essential Skills

BBC site with games, information and quizes to practice literacy and numeracy skills

Guide to Grammar - quizes and exercises (US)

Literacy Trust

MathsNet - online games and quizes

UNISON links

Irish Labour History Museum

Join UNISON

NIC ICTU Trade Union Learning

Northern Ireland Committee of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions

TUC History site

UNISON NI Online Photo Gallery

UNISON Open College

UNISON Scotland Learning & Development

UNISON healthcare information and resources

UNISON learning for activists

Universities and Colleges

Armagh College of Further & Higher Education

Belfast Institute of Further & Higher Education

Castlereagh Institute of Further & Higher Education

Causeway Institute of Further & Higher Education

East Antrim Institute of Further & Higher Education

East Down Institute of Further & Higher Education

East Tyrone College of Further & Higher Education

Fermanagh College of Further & Higher Education

Limavady College of Further & Higher Education

Lisburn Institute of Further & Higher Education

Newry & Kilkeel Institute of Further & Higher Education

North Down & Ards Institute of Further & Higher Education

North East Institute of Further & Higher Education

North West Institute of Further & Higher Education

Omagh College of Further & Higher Education

Open University Distance Learning

Queens University Belfast

University of Ulster

Upper Bann Institute of Further & Higher Education

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