Today NIACE publishes a special issue of our Adults Learning journal reflecting on the European Agenda for Adult Learning. It considers the need for a European vision for lifelong learning, and examines the main themes and priorities for action which emerged from our first major conference as national coordinator for the Agenda. The Learning for [...]
It’s been a busy few months at NIACE: preparing for Adult Learners’ Week, developing our proposals for the spending review, interpreting the figures coming out of this year’s participation survey, thinking about the impact of the benefit changes and skills for those in and out of work, working through the challenges in funding and structural [...]
Written by Tom Schuller, who directed the NIACE Inquiry into Lifelong Learning. Tom was formerly head of the OECD’s Centre for Educational Research and Innovation, and Professor of Lifelong Learning at Birkbeck, University of London. He is writing The Paula Principle on why women work below their level of competence. I see NIACE’s conference in [...]
Written by John Field, a professor in the School of Education at the University of Stirling with a research focus on social, policy and historical aspects of adult learning. Europe has become an important player in education and training, and a conference hosted by NIACE later this month provokes us to understand our local and national practices [...]
I am delighted that the inaugural conference for the UK’s contribution to the EU Agenda for Adult Learning is being held in Cardiff, Europe’s youngest capital and home to one of its newest democratic institutions. Devolution across the UK has given Wales, Northern Ireland, Scotland and England the opportunity to develop approaches to education which [...]
