Adults Learning e-magazine launch Thursday, September 9, 2010 - 11:41

September's Adults Learning features Minister of State John Hayes' vision for skills and further education and the latest responses from key stakeholders across the sector. It also includes contributions from:

• Chris Banks on his review of FE funding;
• unionlearn's Richard Blakeley on the under-consultation right to request time to train;
• the New Economic Foundation's Anna Coote on how to make David Cameron's ‘big society' work for the poor and marginalised;
• voluntary sector leaders Stephen Bubb and Sir Stuart Etherington on the implications of the ‘big society' for community learning; and
• UKCES chief economist Mark Spilsbury on the UK's progress towards the 2020 skills targets'.

The e-magazine, along with all ten issues from the previous volume, will be freely accessible until 8 October 2010, after which it will be available to subscribers and NIACE members.

As well as including the same content as the print version, the e-magazine also boasts the following:

• facilities to search content, highlight text and make notes directly on the page;
• fully linked tables of contents and web links;
• a text-zoom function and accessible plain-text version; and
• bookmarking and content-sharing facilities.

Paul Stanistreet, Editor of Adults Learning, said:

"The launch of the e-magazine is an opportunity for us to reach even more people and, crucially, to better support the sector in responding to the challenge of maintaining a broad and inclusive adult learning offer in times of considerable fiscal constraint."

"Adults Learning is already essential reading for many with an interest in adult education and lifelong learning and we hope the launch of the e-edition will prompt even more people to log-on and join our growing community of readers."