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Contents - September 2007
 | Editorial |
| News |
| Commentary : Too important to lose |
| Fit for the future? The global economy is changing, say ministers, and we need to develop our skills to keep up – but will the proposals set out in the Government’s plan for implementing the Leitch review deliver the step change required? The three main parties respond |
| You say you want a revolution... Has the Government got it right on Leitch? We asked some of the leading experts what they thought |
| Do the brokers know best? The key players in the ‘demand-led’ system advocated by Leitch and adopted by government are the brokers who now operate at every level of the education system. But do they really know better than their ‘clients’, asks Mick Fletcher |
| Innovation, innovation, innovation The emphasis on ‘innovation’ in the new, renamed and restructured, department for post-16 education provokes some interesting questions – but, beyond the rhetoric, what does it signify, asks Tom Schuller |
| The view from ‘outer Britain’ The distinctive ideological complexions of Scottish and Welsh politics open up the possibility of radically different approaches to adult learning within the devolved administrations, writes Gareth Rees |
| After the flood The Carlisle floods of 2005 left homes and businesses ruined. The McVities factory was one of the worst hit. Few commentators expected the factory’s owners to reopen the plant – or to make replacing the factory’s learning centre a priority. Paul Stanistreet reports |
| Better together? Social capital has become a key concept of both policymaking and political science. But what difference does it really make to the balance of power in communities, ask Jim Crowther, Lyn Tett and Vivien Edwards |
| Do you mean us, Mr Brown? The Prime Minister has pledged to ‘fulfil the potential and realise the talents of all our people’, but for a group of disabled learners in Devon the future looks far from bright, writes Jenny Harriman |
| Education for its own sake – and no buts! None of the respondents to NIACE’s Big Conversation offered a non-instrumental defence of education. It seems ‘education for its own sake’ is no longer valued – even by those who should care most, says Dennis Hayes |
| Reviews |
