We live in a society in which the family you are born into and brought up in is still a major factor in your chances of achieving in learning; our annual participation survey and many others (including the Government’s own National Adult Learning Survey) provide ample evidence of this. This matters because there are strong [...]
I spoke at the National Co-ordinating Centre for Public Engagement conference in Bristol yesterday, and posed an important question – “Where are we with public engagement in universities in the UK?” The role universities can play in inspiring, fostering and supporting a lifelong learning culture in our society remains largely un-tapped and good public engagement [...]
It’s been a really busy week at NIACE and yesterday alone we responded to the Richard Review of Apprenticeships, the publication of the Work Programme Statistics and the Chief Inspector’s annual report for Ofsted. And on Friday we publish The Adult Apprentice, setting out NIACE’s position on apprenticeships and featuring the stories of 10 inspiring [...]
