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Commentary: All that way
for this?
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You live and learn
Paul Stanistreet meets some of the winners of this year’s Adult Learners’
Week individual awards
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Bringing it all back home
Age Concern volunteers in Doncaster have been bringing the town’s primary
school children face to face with the history that took place on their
doorsteps. Spanning the generations, their work is helping change attitudes
among both young and old, finds Paul Stanistreet
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Where are we now?
Ten years after Inclusive Learning, the landmark report of John Tomlinson’s
committee of enquiry, co-author Pat Hood asks how far provision for people with
learning difficulties and/or disabilities has come
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The elephant in the room
Properly joined-up government requires that we make disability – the
invisible in policy making – visible, writes Peter Lavender Inclusive Learning
offers a model of learning much wider than its stated remit, but are we ready to
sign up? asks Deborah Cooper
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We’ve come a long way, but …
Inclusive Learning appeared to have put provision for students with learning
difficulties on the map. Ten years on, we asked Viv Berkeley and Yola Jacobsen
to consider what progress has been made
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More and different
We have more learners with mental health difficulties in adult learning than
we did ten years ago. The challenge now is to include ‘different’ learners with
mental health difficulties, writes Kathryn James
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Ways of seeing further
Tenantspin – an internet TV station run by and for the tenants of
Liverpool’s tower blocks – set out to increase community participation and
improve consultation. It ended up creating a new community, reports Paul
Stanistreet
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Follow the leader
Kate Watters reports on research which asks how multi-level leadership in
adult education can be developed, while Richard Hooper and Peter Garrod reflect
on Lancashire Adult Learning’s leadership model
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Mind the gap
The extent of under-participation by Bangladeshi and Pakistani adults
presents a major challenge both to the education and training system and to
employers, write Fiona Aldridge and Alan Tuckett
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Women up front
Elisabeth Bryan reports on a unique learning project to document the lives
of women in Falkirk over the past 60 years
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