EGFSN Member
EGFSN Member
Inez Bailey
Director of the National Adult Literacy Agency (NALA)
Inez Bailey has been the Director of the National Adult Literacy Agency (NALA) since 1997. NALA is an independent membership organisation, concerned with developing policy, advocacy, research and offering advisory services in adult literacy work in Ireland. Its mission is to ensure all people with literacy and numeracy difficulties can fully take part in society and have access to learning opportunities that meet their needs.
Inez joined NALA in 1995 as Programme Manager of a research and development project, funded under the EU EMPLOYMENT initiative. She co-authored the resulting research publication Access and Participation in Adult Literacy Schemes in 1998.
As Director of NALA, Inez has been responsible for initiating the development of a quality framework, including an assessment framework for the adult literacy service, devising a major basic education distance learning project on TV and radio and mainstreaming workplace literacy programmes.
