Written by Ryan Mercer – a Policy Development Intern at NIACE with a particular interest in European Union Policy. Ryan graduated from the University of Leicester in 2012 with a BA (Hons) Ancient History and History. The European Institutions are currently debating the multi-annual budget for the next 7 years leading up to 2020. NIACE’s [...]
Informal adult learning should be like a box of Belgian chocolates. You should always know what you are going to get – excellent quality, a great selection and guaranteed satisfaction. But is the expertise to deliver this being lost? Back in September 2011, tucked away in a three-storey town house on the Place de Luxembourg [...]
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 [...]
