The last in our series of guest posts on the theme of women, learning, literacy and liberation – for International Women’s Day and beyond – comes from Amanda Wait, ‘Welcome to Bolton’ Co-ordinator, WEA North West Region. There is no statistic more maddening to me at the moment than the stubbornly shallow slope that half-heartedly [...]
Tricia Hartley, Chief Executive of Campaign for Learning, has contributed today’s guest blog, which is the penultimate in a series on women, learning, literacy and liberation. Twenty-five years ago, Canadian researcher Kathleen Rockhill made a striking statement about power, responsibility and women’s literacy which has stayed in my mind. “Because it is caught up in [...]
The next installment in our series for International Women’s Day and beyond – on the theme of women, learning, literacy and liberation – comes from Judith Swift MBE, Union Development Manager. Judith takes the lead role for supporting unions in developing their learning and skills capacity, including overall management of the Union Learning Fund and [...]
Our second guest blog today, in a series for International Women’s Day and beyond, including contributions from international and UK writers on the theme of women, learning, literacy and liberation. Feed the Minds is a UK-based charity that supports education in Sub-Saharan Africa, Asia, the Middle East, North Africa and Latin America. Life is tough for the young [...]
For International Women’s Day today and beyond, NIACE has invited international and UK writers to contribute to a series of guest blogs on the theme of women, learning, literacy and liberation. Janet Solla – Director of the Community Health and Learning Foundation Ltd – draws on her experience of working in health literacy education to highlight how [...]
