Alan Tuckett OBE, Director of the National Institute of Adult Continuing Education (NIACE UK)

Alan Tuckett OBE is Director of the National Institute of Adult Continuing Education, having worked previously for the voluntary sector in Brighton and for the ILEA. He started Adult Learners’ Week in the UK in 1992, and supported its adoption by UNESCO, and its spread to almost 40 Countries.He is a member of the Government’s Skills Alliance, a Special Professor in Continuing Education at the University of Nottingham and an Honorary Professor in the Centre for Labour Market Studies and the Institute of Lifelong Learning at Leicester University. He was Vice-Chair of the National Advisory Group for Continuing Education and Lifelong Learning 1997-9, and advises UNESCO on adult learning.  He was President of the International League for Social Commitment in Adult Education in 1986-7, and President of the Pre-School Learning Alliance from 1999-2003. 

Alan is a member of the Adult Learning Committee of the Learning and Skills Council, of the Open University’s Council and Strategy Group and of the Council of City and Guilds He is a Board member of the Centre for Enterprise and honorary secretary for the Guidance Council

He has honorary doctorates from the Open University, Sheffield Hallam University, University of Bradford and the University of Kent and is a Fellow of City & Guilds. He was awarded the OBE in 1995.