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Adults Learning is essential reading for adult education practitioners and policy makers, offering an informed mix of news, analysis, expert commentary and feature writing, dedicated to adult learning. Published 4 times a year in print and digitally, each issue is filled with in-depth and topical articles written by leading practitioners and experts in the field.
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Contents of current issue (Winter 2011/12):
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Colleges at the heart of local communities The Commission on Colleges in their Communities found many colleges already deeply embedded in the lives of their communities. The commission’s final report sets out actions to support all colleges in living up to the practice of the best, writes Margaret Sharp
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Adult learning for social justice The Welsh Government’s new agenda sets out a number of aims to which adult learning can make a contribution. It falls to those involved in adult learning in Wales to make the strongest possible case for its wider relevance, writes Cerys Furlong
Too narrow a vision Some of the measures in the Scottish Government’s reform of post-16 education have been widely welcomed. What is missing, however, is the offer of a broad curriculum beyond the need to find work for a narrow age range, says Jim Crowther
Minding the generation gap With youth unemployment high on the political agenda, the fortunes of the ‘jobless generation’ are being contrasted with those of the ‘golden generation’ of baby boomers, but is one generation really being mugged by the other, asks John Field
Only connect We need a new approach to dealing with social problems such as addiction and low aspiration. Greater integration between social care programmes and learning would be a big step in the right direction, writes Alex Meikle
From exam factories to communities of discovery The current model of education has turned our colleges and universities into skills factories for British industry. The policies of the three main parties will push us further in the same direction, but there is an alternative, argue Frank Coffield and Bill Williamson
We need better democracy, not better citizens Investment in the production of better citizens will not produce the kind of civic learning we need. We do better to ask what opportunities exist for the enactment of the experiment of democracy, writes Gert Biesta
Death and lifelong learning Lifelong learning has a crucial role in enabling us to handle key transition points in our lives, but what can education do to prepare us for the final, inevitable transition, asks Tom Schuller
Helping women into work With women bearing a disproportionate share of economic hardship, their poor representation on training designed to tackle barriers to work is a critical concern. Jane Ward asks what can be done to improve women’s access to this sort of learning
State or society? We need both The Big Society can only be realised with the support of public servants committed to working with local residents to bring about positive community change, argue Jane Taylor and Victoria Appleton
Room at the top An overall increase in learning and skills providers rated ‘good’ or ‘outstanding’ masks a more mixed picture, with too many colleges remaining stubbornly ‘satisfactory’, says Ofsted’s Matthew Coffey
Getting the message across Most employers would like to employ ex-offenders, but often lack confidence in the education they receive in prison. We need to raise awareness of prison education and the attributes offenders can bring to the workforce, writes Richard Goss
Social value and adult learning Penny Lamb examines the current debate on social value and asks what significance the socialvalue approach which runs through much of the government’s public-service reform could have for adult learning
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