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The trouble with ESOL
Effective ESOL provision is needed for communities and the economy to
thrive. But the interim findings of NIACE’s committee of inquiry into ESOL
reveal provision lagging well behind need.
Peter Lavender and Jane Ward report |
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In a quandary
NIACE commissioned a survey on who should pay for adult learning – and how
much. The results, say Alan Tuckett and Fiona Aldridge, make uncomfortable
reading for politicians and providers alike |
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‘This isn’t special treatment, we’re just looking
after our community’
As the economic need for migrant labour grows, workers are settling in
Britain and creating new demand for services. Paul Stanistreet reports from a
project in rural Lincolnshire which has plotted the service needs of this
expanding ‘community’ |
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Green shoots?
Changing patterns of participation in adult learning could be seen as the
beginnings of an emerging learning society – or be early indicators of sharpened
inequalities and a narrowing of participation, write Alan Tuckett and Fiona
Aldridge |
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Finding new pathways
The findings of Ofcom’s media literacy audit are to provide the basis for a
series of policy debates throughout the UK. Education providers will have much
to contribute, says Robin Blake |
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Not just doing time
Could a Freirean approach to critical literacy be made to work within a
Scottish women’s prison? Louise Sheridan argues that it could |
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‘The only reason you can’t read is because you
don’t’
Quick Reads author Andy McNab is now one of Britain’s best-selling writers.
But as a child he thought books weren’t for him. Here, he describes the learning
journey that began with the discovery, at sixteen, that he had the reading age
of an eleven year old |
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All together now
The new union formed by the merger of the AUT and NATFHE must be run for its
members, not bureaucrats, if it is to appeal to a new generation of further and
higher education staff, says Sally Hunt |
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A right to a decent education
Missing the first Millennium Development Goal target of gender parity in
primary and secondary education has put the entire framework of MDGs in doubt,
says Action Aid’s David Archer. But we won’t get girls into schools unless we
also look at the education of
their mothers |
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