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Better news this time?
The NIACE survey on Adult Participation in Learning 2005
Fiona Aldridge and Alan Tuckett |
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At first sight, the figures reported in the 2005 NIACE survey of adult participation in learning are encouraging. There is a marked increase in the proportion of adults reporting current and recent participation in learning, reversing the decline reported in the last four years.
Given the demographic context facing the UK, however, the 2005 findings must be of concern. Diminishing cohorts of young people can only fill one in three of the vacancies for new and replacement jobs of the next decade. The other places will need to be filled by people currently outside the labour force, and by older people taking on new roles. On the evidence of this survey, these groups are least likely to participate in adult learning.
This survey continues the series documenting adult participation in learning in the UK. Using responses of around 5,000 adults in the UK, it offers key findings, breaking down participation, trends in participation and future intentions to learn by gender, socio-economic class, age, employment and the regions. It provides up-to date data as well as a valuable means for comparison over time.
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Other surveys in the series include:
 | Counting the cost - The NIACE survey on adult participation 2008
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| The Road to Nowhere? - The NIACE survey on adult participation 2007 | ||||||
| Green Shoots? - The NIACE survey on adult
participation in learning 2006
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| Better news this time? - The NIACE survey on adult participation in learning 2005 | ||||||
| Business as Usual? - The NIACE survey on adult participation in learning 2004 | ||||||
| A Sharpe Reverse - The NIACE survey on adult participation in learning 2003 | ||||||
| Two steps forward, one step back: The NIACE survey on adult participation in learning 2002, | ||||||
| Winners and losers in an expanding system: The NIACE survey on adult participation in learning 2001, |
Reports in the series include
| Adult Learning and Social Division: a
persistent pattern Volume 1, Naomi Sargant and Fiona Aldridge, 2002 |
| Adult Learning and Social Division: a persistent pattern Volume 2, Edited by Naomi Sargant and Fiona Aldridge, 2003 |
| The Learning Divide Revisited, Naomi Sargant, 2000 |
| The Learning Divide, Naomi Sargant et al, 1997 |
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Contents
| Acknowledgements | |
| Introduction Technical notes |
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| Chapter 1 | Participation in learning
Participation in learning in relation to gender |
| Chapter 2 | Future intentions to learn
Future intentions to learn in relation to learning status and gender |
| Chapter 3 | Access to the internet |
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