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Contents - June 2007
 | Editorial |
| News |
| Commentary: As one door closes... |
| All over bar the shouting There was a time when women’s education touched every corner of a diverse and vibrant educational and voluntary sector. Looking around now, you could be forgiven for thinking none of it ever happened, writes Jane Thompson |
| The right medicine? Lord Leitch offers a sound diagnosis of the UK’s training needs – but his prescription will only see the symptoms get worse, says Paul Mackney |
| Rising to the challenges The student demographic is changing – meeting the needs of the whole student population, in all its diversity, will be one of the challenges facing Gordon Brown, writes NUS Vice President Veronica King |
| Testing the vocational imperative The thesis that increased vocational training is needed so that people have the flexibility to meet the demands of an increasingly contingent labour market faces some serious challenges, says Stephen Gorard |
| Seeing the benefits of learning It is now widely acknowledged that education can be good for learners’ mental and physical health, but we should be careful not to claim too much for it, say Leon Feinstein and David Budge |
| Working together better Over the past 10 years the Young Adults Learning Partnership has highlighted many examples of good practice in engaging young adults and developed a set of clear principles to underpin its work, writes Bethia McNeil |
| The forgotten people Sue Southwood and Philly Kafeero visit a literacy project in Kabubbu, a Ugandan village without publicly supplied electricity, telephones or water |
| ‘The door is always open’ From small beginnings, a learning centre based in an old storeroom at First Bus’s Orpington depot has transformed the workplace – and the lives of some of its staff. Now it is a model for workplaces around the country, reports Paul Stanistreet |
| Figures of speech Half a million fewer adults are learning foreign languages now than in 1999, according to a NIACE survey. Yanina Dutton and Sue Meyer report |
| Make learning for life Kate Watters on a think-tank report that calls on the Government to move beyond its ‘narrow’ and ‘shortsighted’ emphasis on the needs of employers |
