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Agenda |
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Commentary:
Mind the Gap |
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Where's the vision?
There are tensions at the heart of the drive to raise standards in
teaching and learning, not least around our failure to develop a coherent
understanding of the factors which result in good learning or teaching, writes
Kathryn Ecclestone. |
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'We are losing students because
we are not accessing the skills they have got'.
Students who struggle with literacy in educational settings are often
highly literate in other domains of life. A team of researchers, led by Roz
Ivanic˙, aims to show how these practices can be drawn upon to meet the
literacy demands of further education. |
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Adult basic skills: what's the
problem?
A research team headed by Alison Wolf will spend five years assessing the
impact of workplace basic skills programmes on employers and their workers.
The project's success will depend, in part, on its sensitivity to the real
issues facing employers and learners. |
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All together now.
A three-year project is looking at how learning cultures can be
transformed to increase engagement in community-based FE. The researchers have
had to reflect carefully on how the project can be made genuinely
collaborative, says coordinator Jim Gallacher. |
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Learning and living.
'Lifelong learning' is the latest educational mantra. Yet little is
understood about the ways in which learning and living are interconnected. To
find out more Gert Biesta is leading a team of researchers in the first
large-scale longitudinal study of the learning biographies of adults. |
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Learning to integrate
When asked to tutor blind learner Allan Ridley, Tom Osman had to give a
lot of thought to making the curriculum accessible. Here, he gives his
personal reflection on what proved to be a learning experience for both. |
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Credit where it's due
As the notion of credit gains currency across Europe, we will need to go
beyond our borders to grow and share new ideas about using credit to recognise
achievement, writes Finbar Lillis. |
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Temper, temper
Education can help us respect the values and opinions of others, writes
Tom Schuller, but that does not mean that those values and opinions should not
be challenged. |
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ICT, a new Skill for Life
Given the transformational impact ICT has had on many aspects of our
lives, it was no surprise when the Government chose to acknowledge it as a
'Skill for Life', writes Alan Clarke. |
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Proving our worth
The ACL Quality Support Programme has shown that providers are making
sustained and effective efforts to meet the quality challenge, reports Kate
Watters. |
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Looking forward to Thursdays
The provision of effective learning can play an important role in enabling
young adults with mental health difficulties to re-establish some normality in
their lives, says Nicola Aylward. |
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Letters |
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Learning voices |
