New NIACE reports
Posted: 6 June 2009
NIACE (National Institute for Adult and Continuing Education) has just published several reports:
'Narrowing Participation' report of the annual survey of adult learning. Although the percentage of adults involved in learning currently, now or at some point over the past three years, has increased this time by 1% to 39%, the proportion of adults currently learning in the UK is only 18% - the lowest level since 1997.
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'Who should pay for adult learning?' This report presents surprising results, compared to those produced by previous research in the field - such as a widespread view that there should be a lower level of government subsidy for many kinds of vocational and leisure learning, compared to those for basic skills.
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'Think Community' report on a DIUS-funded project that was part of wider research on the review of informal adult learning in general and on how inter-age learning links with informal learning.
'Migration, Communities and Lifelong Learning' inquiry into lifelong learning by NAEGA president, Professor Stephen McNair