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Stuart Hollis
Community Based Lifelong
Learning - UK
Alastair Clark
National Institute for
Adult Continuing
Learning
Largest non
governmental body
supporting adult learning.
Advocacy
Research
Development
Overview
Looking Back (5 mins)
A Vision for the future - Inquiry into Future of
Lifelong Learning (10 mins)
Policy and practice in UK – Is this a revolution?
(10 mins)
Europe – Overview ( 10 mins)
Learning and sharing
Looking
backOctober
2009
A vision for
the future
Current policy
and practice
Europe
The Foundations
Mechanic Institutes
Trade Unions
Workers’ Education Association
University extra mural
a
The village college ...... would provide for the whole man,
and abolish the duality of education and ordinary life.
. It would not only be the training ground for the art of living,
but the place in which life is lived, the environment of a
genuine corporate life.
The dismal dispute of vocational and non-vocational
education would not arise in it.
It would be a visible demonstration in stone of the continuity
and never ceasingness of education
The dismal dispute of vocational and non-vocational education
would not arise.
Classes for adults Sports Groups
Arts GroupsCommunity
organisations
Pre school learning School learning
BBC
Education
Information
Entertainment
Open University
Wales
Scotland
England
Northern
Ireland
Participation in learning in UK
Current or recent
participation in
learning
Future intentions to
learn
Northern Ireland 42% 58%
Wales 41% 64%
England 39% 59%
Scotland 33% 65%
Source : NIACE survey on adult participation in learning 2009
Vision of the future
Independent
10 commissioners
28 Supplementary papers
18 months for evidence to
be received
Cost £1,000,000
Inquiry into Future of
Lifelong Learning
Recommendations
1. Base Lifelong Learning Policy on a 4 stage model
2. Rebalance resources across life courses
3. Build a set of entitlements
4. Engineer flexibility: system of credits to encourage part time
study
5. Improve quality of work
6. Citizens Curriculum
7. Broadening and strengthening capacity of lifelong learning
workforce
8. Revive local responsibility
9. ...within national frameworks
10. Making the system intelligent
Recommendations
1. Base Lifelong Learning Policy on a 4 stage model
2. Rebalance resources across life courses
3. Build a set of entitlements
4. Engineer flexibility: system of credits to encourage part time
study
5. Improve quality of work
6. Citizens Curriculum
7. Broadening and strengthening capacity of lifelong
learning workforce
8. Revive local responsibility
9. ...within national frameworks
10. Making the system intelligent
1 Base Lifelong Learning Policy on
a 4 stage model
2 Rebalance Lifelong Learning
resources across life courses
Demographic
challenge for
the UK
2002
2050
4 staged
model
18-24
25-49
50-74
75 +
86%
11%
2.5%
0.5%
Current
Expenditure
80%
15%
4%
1%
Proposed
Expenditure
3 Build a set of entitlements
Free access to literacy and numeracy
(Level 1)
Financial support for minimum levels of
qualifications needed for active participation
in society
‘Learning leave’ from employment.
Transition entitlements
6 Citizens’ curriculum
Four capabilities
• Digital
• Health
• Financial
• Civic
(employability across all these)
7 Broadening and strengthening
capacity of the lifelong learning
workforce
9........within national frameworks
10 Intelligent system
‘State of Learning report’ produced by
government every three years
Use OECD comparitors.
Final word from the Inquiry
....those engaged with lifelong learning in
any capacity need to better understand the
implications of technology, so that future
societies are the ones we seek rather
than the ones we end up with.
Looking
backOctober
2009
A vision for
the future
Current policy
and practice
Europe
Current policy and practice
Teaching traditions
Literacy and Numeracy
Digital Inclusion
Workforce Reform
Education for sustainable development
Government policy on non vocational
learning.
Teaching traditions
Less information transmission and more active
learning.
Literacy and Numeracy
Response
£5bn investment in
since 2001
12 million learning
opportunities taken
2.8million quals
Moser Report (1999) A
Fresh Start
7 million adults in
England, had low levels
of literacy skills.
The situation for
numeracy was worse,
Digital Inclusion
6,000 UK online
centres
Digital Life Skills
(9 hours course)
Social marketing
campaign
Digital Champion
11 Million adults not
using online world
Workforce reforms
Teachers of
adults
Qualified
30 hours
Professional
Development
each year
E-Learning
March 2003 the LSC launched its strategy for
developing the use of e-learning
Local
Strategies
Local Support
E maturity – How well is technology used?
The dismal dispute of vocational and non-vocational education(1923)
Twentyfirst century
Skills
Government policy on non
vocational learning.
Informal Adult Learning
Not accredited and not job related
Can be structured or unstructured
A course?
A Museum visit?
A TV programme?
An interest group
A Web site?
What does the policy offer?
Encourages partnerships:
• Course providers
• Broadcasters
• Museums
• Voluntary Groups
• Community Learning Champions
Europe
European
traditions
European Policy
Some examples
from Germany
European Policy
Lifelong Learning programme 2007 – 2013 with 4
sections:
Comenius – School pupils involved in joint activities
Erasmus – Higher Education students mobility
Leonardo – Vocational Education and Training
Grundvig – Adult Education
Germany
Volkshochschule (adult learning centre)
in Koblenz
The German Learning Regions
Project
Developing sustainable structures
and organisations of regional
networks for Lifelong Learning,
http://www.lernende-regionen.info/
- Education marketing
- Lifelong guidance
-Innovative forms of teaching and learning
- New transitions between educational phases
- Work with small and medium-sized
enterprises,
71 Networks
Professionalisation
a personal view – Klaus Heuer
Looking
backOctober
2009
A vision for
the future
Current policy
and practice
Europe
What I brought
A bit of history
A Vision for Lifelong
Learning
• 10 recommendations
Current practice
• Professionalisation
• Partnership working
Europe
• Echoes of Britain.
What I take
alastair.clark@niace.org.uk