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

European Institute for E learning

Add logo

http://www.eife-l.org/

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