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Contents - March 2007
 | Editorial |
| News |
| Commentary: More things in heaven and earth |
| Adult education and the home front When governments disregard the protests of the people who elected them, adult educators – like all concerned people – have a duty to promote public dialogue between citizens and their leaders, writes Michael Newman |
| Widening participation – what works? We need to know what – other than money – works to widen participation in higher education. But there is a shortage of high-quality evidence, writes Stephen Gorard |
| The future of e-learning Alan Clarke reflects on the potential benefits of e-learning, while Laura Overton, Anne Dennis, Alistair McNaught, Tony Richardson, John Cook and Paul Bacsich consider the benefits to specialised groups of learners and institutions |
| ‘Doing the wrong thing righter’ In a misplaced rush for economic prosperity through vocational training we are in danger of elbowing aside our potential as learning and civic communities. A skills strategy must be integrated within a broader learning-for life vision, argues Richard Hooper |
| Can we make a difference? 23 Jane Ward reports from the World Social Forum, the annual gathering of campaigning groups and activists who believe that ‘another world is possible’ |
| We need a joined-up system Leitch calls for a genuinely demand-led system of education and training, but it won’t work without a strategy for including those who don’t currently demand, writes Sue Meyer |
| Breaking the chains 200 years ago this month, mass political action helped abolish the slave trade in the British colonies. The movement involved thousands of ordinary people – most of them denied the right to vote – in the first ever mass human rights campaign, reports Paul Stanistreet |
