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Learning in Later Life
In full bloom ... or withering on the vine?
| Date: | Wednesday 7 May 2008 |
| Venue: | St George’s Conference Centre, Great George Street, Leeds LS1 3BR |
| Ref: | C1680/0508 |
| Fee*: | Fee:
£50 (non-refundable, includes lunch, tea/coffee);
NB: NIACE does not charge VAT on conference and course fees |
[Background & Aims] [Audience] [Programme]
Background & Aims
Given the Government’s recent consultation paper on Informal Learning, this conference aims to identify and highlight the significant issues for providers of learning opportunities for older learners and for older learners themselves.
Policy changes in recent years have placed great significance on learning which is related directly or indirectly to employment. Much adult funding is directed to programmes which have specifically vocational outcomes.
What has this done to provision for older learners, whose primary learning goals might not be related to finding or keeping a job, but more associated with learning for leisure, fun, social purposes and intellectual stimulation?
Are the two areas of employment-related and informal learning:
 | compatible or competing |
| mutually reinforcing or exclusive |
| of equal status? |
or is informal learning the poor relation?
Aims
This conference will provide opportunities for practitioners, policy makers
and advocates for older people to discuss the issues in a challenging but
supportive atmosphere. Participants will benefit from the opportunity to hear
from key policy makers and thinkers, to ask them questions and to engage in
dialogue and debate with fellow practitioners.
Outcomes
A key outcome of the conference will be an agreed statement on the benefits
of learning for older people. This will be used to lobby and campaign for more,
different and better learning opportunities for older learners. Participants
will identify practical ways in which a range of agencies can work together to
increase the range of learning opportunities available in the Yorkshire and the
Humber region. There will also be exhibitions by current learning providers and
agencies supporting older people.
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Audience
This event will be of particular interest to:
| providers of learning opportunities |
| policy makers and decision makers |
| agencies supporting older people |
| funders of learning opportunities |
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Programme
| 09:45 | Arrival and registration (tea/coffee available) |
| 10:20 | Welcome and
introduction to the day Councillor Richard Harker, Leeds City Council |
| 10:30 | Keynote address The value of learning in later life – the benefits and the challenges Gillian Mann, Yorkshire and the Humber Regional Learners’ Panel |
| 11:00 | Keynote address Older Learners: Informal … or In For More Learning? Dr Tony Maltby, Research Fellow, Centre for Research into the Older Workforce (CROW) National Institute of Adult and Continuing Education (NIACE) |
| 11:30 | Questions and discussion |
| 11:45 | Tea/coffee break |
| 12:00 | Workshops
(Please indicate your choices on the application form) 1. What we Want, What we Really, Really Want Caroline Starkey, Leeds Older People's Forum Lifelong Learning Network 2. Learning for Work: Feel Like You’ve Been Put Out to Pasture? Jackie Langley, Older Workers’ Employment Network, East Riding of Yorkshire Council 3. Planning and Delivering Provision for Older Learners in Leeds Stephen Deathe, Leeds City Council 4. The Benefits of Learning in Later Life John Lawton, NIACE with the Lifelong Learning Centre, University of Leeds |
| 13:00 | Lunch |
| 14:15 | Workshops: repeated (Please indicate your choices on the application form) |
| 15:15 | Plenary session |
| 15:30 | Close of conference (tea/coffee available) |
This programme is correct at the time of going to press. The organisers reserve the right to make changes to the published programme in the event of one or more of the advertised speakers being unable to attend. Delegates will have no claim against NIACE in respect of such changes.
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