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Contents - April 2008
 | Editorial |
| News |
| Commentary: Truth, beauty and the meaning of
life |
| Adult education and the environment Fifteen years after he convened Learning for the Future, a working party on adult learning and the environment, John Field finds that adult education has a lot to offer the environmental movement, in spite of existing constraints |
| The future starts now Fifteen years on from Learning for the Future, Mark Walton looks at the ways in which local action on the environment is – and isn’t – being supported |
| Preparing for landing Paul Stanistreet meets Martin Doel, the RAF air commodore soon to take over the reins at the Association of Colleges |
| Bread and roses The flourishing role informal learning plays in the trade union movement demonstrates that while workers need to be able to read and write, they must be able to dream too, writes Unionlearn Director Liz Smith |
| Informal learning: a vision for the twenty-first century? Peter Davies and Malcolm Ball respond to the Government’s consultation on the future of informal learning |
| Harnessing technology to support learning Phase two of the Government’s e-strategy for education will need to produce a step-change in the way in which we apply technology in education, say Tony Richardson, Nigel Ecclesfield and Christine Lewis |
| If it ain’t broke... There can be no question of the positive impact RARPA has had on work with learners with complex learning difficulties and disabilities – so why get rid of it, asks Alison Boulton |
| Reasons to be cheerful Ruth Silver, chair of the new improvement organisation for further education and skills, is optimistic about what the emerging agency can achieve, but she is aware of the challenges facing a sector struggling to keep pace with inspectors’ expectations |
| All that glisters… Adult learners with high support needs often have no means of progressing to further provision. A project creating local multi-agency learning pathways for these learners demonstrates just what can be achieved by a person-centred approach, writes Pete Vickers |
| Making the vision work A massive increase in budget for information, advice and guidance should be good news for adult learners, but, as ever, the devil is in the detail of implementation, say Helen Plant and Mark Ravenhall |
| Reviews |
