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Editorial
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News
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Commentary: What about
the wider benefits?
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‘There’s a need to tell stories that connect’
Everything that appears on the Media Trust’s Community Channel is intended
to motivate people to do something beyond the broadcast. And while its viewing
figures are still relatively small, its potential reach is huge, writes John
Blewitt
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We need to look to adults
In the first of a series of columns, Stephen Gorard asks where the potential
students necessary to fulfil the Government’s commitment to widening
participation in higher education are going to come from
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Making formative assessment work
Properly understood, formative assessment can develop deeper learning,
motivation and genuine challenge among learners, writes Kathryn Ecclestone
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Spaces of hope
The Government believes that interaction between communities is key to
building cohesion and tackling racism, but where is this interaction to take
place, asks Mike Cushman
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Read all over
With Christmas just around the corner we asked some of our writers to
nominate their favourite reads of 2006
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We’re getting there
Geoff Bateson reports on how Birmingham’s adult literacy and numeracy
targets are not just being met, but exceeded, right across the city ‘If it
weren’t for this project, I’d be dead ...
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I’ve got my life back’
Drug addiction is the forgotten stigma of Ireland’s inner cities. Paul
Stanistreet visited a Dublin project which is using education to help women with
a history of addiction get their lives back on track
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Ready to commit?
Large employer abstention from formal apprenticeship programmes is widely
recognised, but the reasons are not well understood, says Victoria Winkler
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Painted from life
The Ashington Group of pitmen painters used their evening art classes to
produce a unique record of life in a mining community. A collection of their
work has now opened on the site of the colliery where they worked, reports Paul
Stanistreet
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Reclaiming the present
In 1999 a group of community activists applied for a planning grant from the
Adult and Community Learning Fund. Seven years on, says Julian Plested, the
project that resulted continues to make a difference
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Letters
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