Three wishes for 2013 Friday, December 21, 2012 - 13:10

In his final blog of 2012, David Hughes, Chief Executive of NIACE, looks ahead to 2013 with three major wishes to change the culture of learning for adults:

“With public funding under even greater pressure in 2013, my fear is that opportunities to learn are becoming scarcer for people who need a bit more time and money spent on them to succeed. I am thinking about the outreach work and the first steps learning which is required to entice people into learning, to provide the confidence and self-esteem needed to get into the mainstream. If this happens then the inequalities will increase.”

His three wishes for 2013 are:

1. For the Government to commit to a new national learning participation target.
2. To task Local Enterprise Partnerships (LEPs) to take into account the participation figures for their emerging skills plans.
3. For more creativity and innovation in how learning is delivered and experienced.