Lifelong Learning Blogs
Do tell us about any good blogs on lifelong learning in the UK and beyond - there don’t seem to be many with much of a profile but I’m sure there are more than those listed below. Our current favourites include:
1. Peter Templeton (of the Workers’ Education Association - and NIACE’s policy committee) who has a well-established blog at http://weaeducation.typepad.co.uk
2. Tom Schuller, our colleague and friend who heads the independent Inquiry into the Future for Lifelong Learning, has his blog Inquiring Minds (great title, great blog) at http://www.niace.org.uk/lifelonglearninginquiry/blog but it is something of a ’secret garden’ .
3. The same can be said of the engmatic Coursefisher who provides a perspective as a student of adult education courses undertaken for pleasure and/or intellectual stimulation - but whose postings are too irregular for the blog to become ’sticky’. http://coursefisher.wordpress.com/about.
4. Conor Ryan (former special adviser to David Blunkett and Tony Blair) writes about education, culture, Ireland and more in an established blog at http://conorfryan.blogspot.com - but although he occasionally touches on FE colleges and universities with real insight, he seldom writes about adult learners.
5. You might think that if the Microsoft UK education team had a further education blog http://blogs.msdn.com/ukfe it would be about FE – but the lead story today is about primary schools!
Special Mention
Matthew Taylor of the Royal Society of Arts, writes an examplary Chief Officer’s blog at www.matthewtaylorsblog.com. The first few times I read it I found it a bit pretentious - but kept returning because of the quality of the posts. As has often been the case over the past 250 years, the RSA was slightly ahead of the game and it’s now one of the blogs to check out weekly.
