Wed, 2020-03-11 08:21
Last year the UK Centenary Commission on Adult Education published their report, “A Permanent Necessity…”.
They focused on 6 areas:
- framing and delivering a national ambition
- ensuring basic skills
- fostering community, democracy and dialogue
- promoting creativity, innovation and informal learning
- securing individual learning and wellbeing
- attending to the world of work.
Their first recommendation is as follows:
“Given the profound importance of adult education and lifelong learning to democratic life, social cohesion, economic prosperity, and individual wellbeing, Government should lead in developing a national Adult Education & Lifelong Learning Strategy that secures the engagement of the whole of Government while recognising the importance of devolved decision making. The Strategy should include a commitment to a participation target which seeks to reduce the gap between the most and least educationally active.”