In the last year, 55000 ‘safeguarded’ adult learning places have been lost in the UK. This is in addition to the 1.4 million lost to the change in direction away from purely ‘educational’ courses to ‘vocational’ learning. A report from NIACE gives the details….
Ever wanted to learn in your sleep? Forget playing a tape beside your bed, just switch on your iPhone and slip it under your pillow when you go to sleep. All you need to do is download and install a new application for the iPhone – iSleepLearn. Once installed you copy over any online course …
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development has published a report from the Centre for Educational Research and Innovation which links continued adult learning with reduced risk for neurodegenerative diseases. The report, entitled ‘Understanding the Brain: The Birth of a Learning Science,’ presents a review of recent developments in neuroscience as applied to the process …
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Academics are becoming worried that government policies that emphasize learning as a route to employment are undermining the ethos of our universities and colleges. Vice-chancellors throughout England and Wales report that students are taking courses which they hate in order to enter high-paid work on graduation and that fewer and fewer students are taking subjects …
The University of the Third Age, which says adult education policy is “not fit for purpose,” complains that “lifelong learning has become a euphemism for ‘working lifetimes learning’ and adult education for third-agers is seen as no more than a marginal activity.”More inÃÂ Education Guardian…ÃÂ
Adult education classes have taken a battering in recent years. Can the new minister reverse the trend?ÃÂ Full story in the Guardian…
