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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 (Summer 2013):
Commentary
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The information
It falls to us to fill the gaps
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Reductions in public spending and a shrinking state mean providers and funders will have to work together to ensure resources are deployed to best effect and that groups of learners are not marginalised or excluded, writes Alastair Thomson
The spending review: adult education and the retreat of the state
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June’s spending review maintained investment in apprenticeships and protected the community learning budget but it also brought swingeing cuts to further education adult skills funding. We asked some of the leading commentators and stakeholders in the sector what impact the review was likely to have on adult education
Making sure local investment counts
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The spending round disappointed many by putting only £2 billion into the ‘single pot’ for Local Enterprise Partnerships. It remains to be seen how well the money will be spent but the need to make the funding stretch should mean a critical role for adult learning and skills, writes Tom Stannard
Some worries about localism
Though progress towards more strategic funding systems and greater local accountability would be welcome, it is clear that Local Enterprise Partnerships do not have all of the answers. Getting a better basis for designing initiatives and evaluating policies would give us a greater chance of ensuring our money is well spent, says Tom Schuller
Rethinking citizenship for an uncertain world
With EU elections due in 2014, there is marked cynicism about European politics, reflecting a general loss of public trust in conventional political processes. Faced with an increasingly uncertain and unpredictable world, we need new forms of political engagement and new sorts of citizenship, argues Bob Fryer
There’s some good news and some not so good news
There are signs that employers are raising their ambitions on training and making more effective use of people’s skills. However, it is concerning that training volumes continue to decline and that the decline has received so little attention, write Alan Felstead and Francis Green
We must raise our game on lifelong learning
Demographic change means that lifelong learning has never been as crucial to the lives of people and communities. More ladders of opportunity are needed if we are to get the best out of people already in the workforce, argues Nic Dakin
Surviving austerity
The decline in part-time higher education student numbers is nothing short of disastrous for Britain. We need a more flexible, diverse higher education system
that gives students the opportunity to learn while working or raising a family, writes Rick Muir
Adult education as a social movement: inspiring change or fading dream
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Adult education has long thought of itself as a social movement. But given changes in the world of education and in the wider context of social movements, John Field asks whether it is still meaningful to think about contemporary adult education in these terms
The engaged institution
A number of critical policy agendas are converging to make higher education engagement with communities, employers and partner institutions more important than ever. But what makes for successful HEI engagement and what more can institutions do to embed the best practice throughout their teaching and research? Paul Stanistreet reports
A missed opportunity for adult guidance
The new National Careers Service has been broadly good news for adults, though too few people know about it. However, the National Careers Council’s first annual report is troublingly quiet on adult guidance, writes Stephen McNair
Popular education, power and democracy
With global economic forces increasingly unaccountable to national governments there is a growing crisis in democracy across Europe. Public spaces for debate and dissent are essential and popular education has a lot to teach us about how to create them, says Jim Crowther
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