Still time to get involved in Adult Learners’ Week Wales in September
Organisations across Wales are being encouraged to get involved in this year’s Adult Learners’ Week from September 15 to 21 by hosting an event or…
Adult learning
GCSE Exam Successes For Blackburn College Students Of All Ages
GCSE joy is not just reserved for secondary school kids, as adult learners studying at Blackburn College were overjoyed at achieved great results. Blackburn College…
Empowering Communities Through Numbers: NPTC Group of Colleges Celebrates Impact of Multiply Maths & Numeracy Programme
NPTC Group of Colleges is proud to celebrate the transformative success of its Multiply Maths & Numeracy programme – an initiative that is enhancing lives…
Stokies urged to access free support this National Numeracy Day
To celebrate National Numeracy Day (22 May 2024), Stoke on Trent College, in partnership with Stoke-on-Trent City Council is encouraging residents across the city to…
Invest in employment and skills to restart the engines of growth
Stephen explains the UK’s engines of growth have stalled since 2008, resulting in lower average earnings and public services under strain. The Chancellor’s recent Budget…
The Citizen’s Curriculum: Empowering adult learners in Wales
On a visit to Oasis in Cardiff, the Minister for Education and Welsh Language Jeremy Miles, had the chance to see how a Welsh Government…
We need to level up lifelong learning
Lifelong learning is one of those things that many people – including politicians – are in favour of in principle, but where that doesn’t always…
The Cost-of-Living Crisis and Adult Community Learning
Educational inequality already has strong correlations with economic disparity. Those with low or no qualifications are more likely to be in the most disadvantaged communities.…
Promoting Family Wellbeing Through Adult Learning
At the What Works Centre for Wellbeing, we are interested in supporting and researching family wellbeing for a number of reasons. First, we need to…
Parents, children and adult learning
Family learning policy in the 2020s Campaign for Learning’s new policy paper, published today (5th July 2022), examines the important links between learning and family…