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Contents - January 2008
 | Editorial |
| News |
| Commentary: Is this a price worth paying? |
| Great expectations The Foundation Learning Tier is an ambitious project to support learners with few or no qualifications below level 2. What can be done to ensure it achieves its potential, asks Viv Berkeley |
| A step towards personalised learning Only through personalised and flexible learning within an inclusive over-arching Foundation Learning Tier will learners with learning difficulties and/or disabilities make the person-centred progress that will develop their skills to be valued members of the community, writes Peter Little |
| ‘We’re like a family’ A project to help vulnerable young people in a deprived area of County Durham lead independent lives is turning fragile young learners into active citizens with a passion for education. Paul Stanistreet reports |
| From promise to practice The Webb review of the role of further education in Wales recognises the relevance of adult learning to a range of policy agendas. Hopefully, it will prompt ministers to see adult learning as a cross-portfolio investment rather than as a solely education-related cost, writes Richard Spear |
| Barefoot tutor Paul Stanistreet meets Wales Tutor of the Year Ted Kelland, a former Royal Marine whose inspirational complementary therapy classes give his students the courage to make a difference |
| In search of a lifelong learning strategy For all the rhetoric about lifelong learning few governments have made a serious attempt at developing a strategic approach to overall policy, says Tom Schuller, newly appointed Director of the Inquiry into the Future of Lifelong Learning |
| Learning from the edge The stories behind the Young Adults Learning Partnership Awards demonstrate what can be achieved when providers take account of the immediate real-life needs of young adults, writes Nicola Aylward |
| A question of identity Learning a society’s common language is not only the key to making your voice heard, it is the foundation of identity, argues Peter Lavender |
| The myth of the silver surfer Popular discourse portrays older ICT users either as highly empowered ‘silver surfers’ or as marooned in a technological ‘grey gap’. Little attention is paid to what older learners are actually doing with ICTs, write Stephen Gorard and Neil Selwyn |
