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Contents - March 2008
 | Editorial |
| News |
| Commentary: ‘Volunteering? We used to do that’ |
| Let’s get lost The National Year of Reading is an opportunity to reassert the value of books and reading in the widest sense, says Carol Taylor |
| A girl like you Gilda O’Neill left school at 15 after being told by a teacher that ‘girls like her’ never became writers. Now a bestselling author, she hopes her work will inspire others to regain the love of learning they lost at school. Paul Stanistreet went to meet her. |
| ‘We teach being with books’ Life is serious and serious literature can help us through it. That’s the message of Jane Davis’s remarkable Get into Reading scheme. Paul Stanistreet visited the project to see the difference talking about books can make to people’s lives. |
| Never too early, never too late New research shows that adults with the lowest literacy and numeracy skills are likely to have experienced substantial disadvantage from early childhood. But, as the journeys of many adult learners attest, education can transform opportunity, writes John Bynner. |
| Compliance is not enough The Commission for Disabled Staff in Lifelong Learning found evidence of widespread institutional discrimination against disabled staff. The sector must change if it is to credibly claim to take disability equality seriously, says Commission chair Leisha Fullick. |
| Lifelong learning – is it just for the rich? Attaining the goals of Education for All in the global South demands a large and generous understanding of where, how and why people learn. Chris Duke asks what role the concept of lifelong learning can play. |
| The public value debate Adult learning has a public value – but how do we persuade policy makers and the public of its importance, asks Jenny Williams. |
| More than an exercise class A project to improve the health and quality of life of minority ethnic communities in the West Midlands demonstrates the difference adult learning can make to agendas such as health and community cohesion. Paul Stanistreet reports. |
