Adults Learning
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 10 times a year, each issue is filled with in-depth and topical articles written by leading practitioners and experts in the field.
Contents of current issue (March 2010):
News
Commentary: We want a fair deal, for learners as well as employers
Only around four per cent of learners currently co-fund their learning with their employers. A future system could see individuals managing their own learning accounts, co-investing with government and employers in the learning they want to do, writes Mark Ravenhall
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Changing the way we work
A ‘normal’ working week of 21 hours could help address a range of problems, from overwork and unemployment to low wellbeing and over-consumption. The challenge is to make sure that everyone benefits, not just those who are already relatively privileged, says Anna Coote
Thinking outside the box
Britain is not only more diverse than ever before, but that diversity itself is growing more diverse. Our simplistic ‘tick-box’ approach to identity is in danger of inhibiting the very equality it seeks to promote, say Simon Fanshawe and Dhananjayan Sriskandarajah
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A challenge to do things differently
Superficial targets and a ‘tick-box mentality’ have contributed to low skill levels and exclusion among society’s more disadvantaged groups. We need a different approach that focuses on real outcomes for individuals and provides better access to education and training for society’s most vulnerable, argues Jacqui Henderson
Getting the point across
With an election looming and big cuts to public spending on the way, policy proposals that involve spending large sums of new money are unlikely to be well received by politicians. What questions might we more usefully put to prospective parliamentarians, asks Tom Schuller
Always changing, always the same
Over a quarter-century of turbulence and erosion, university lifelong learning has had no choice but to adapt to survive. While some departments have been forced to close, others have found ways to thrive, and the founding principles of the old extra-mural system remain as relevant as ever, writes Bill Jones
Earning and learning
Higher education has changed in the past decade, as more flexible, workrelated opportunities to study have become available. Making a success of these changes depends on improving the quality of the advice and guidance on offer to working adults, says Lesley Haughton
Not all learning is the same – inspections shouldn’t be either
Under new inspection arrangements for adult and community learning, subject areas will be inspected differently, according to the context and objectives of the learning in question, writes Melanie Hunt
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