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NALA is recruiting Distance Learning Tutors
1 Oct 2018
The National Adult Literacy Agency (NALA) runs an adult literacy Distance Learning Service. Read »
NALA is recruiting a Plain English Editor
1 Oct 2018
The National Adult Literacy Agency (NALA) is recruiting a Plain English Editor. Read »
NALA is recruiting a Training Co-ordinator
1 Oct 2018
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Plain English Writing for the Web Training - 17 October

17 Oct 2018
Who is this course for? This course is for content writers, editors or reviewers who write and... Read »

Plain English Training November 2018

21 Nov 2018
An introduction to Plain English Wednesday 21 November, 9:30am to 3:30pm Venue: You will be emailed... Read »
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Why with-teeth GDPR is a friend to Plain English
10 May 2018

There are four letters guaranteed to kill almost all conversations and make normally cheerful...

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Educating the media
11 Apr 2017

At our AGM John Walshe talked about how we need to change the way we look at further...

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'Old wine in new bottles?' New approaches to maths in prison
10 Jun 2015

by Catherine Byrne, City of Dublin Education Service to Prisons

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