Let the People Sing
Lifelong learning is the unsung hero of the educational landscape but it’s tricky to prove when data about the beneficial impacts can be so difficult to capture explains Caroline McDonald from HOLELX. Interview by Nicola Baird.
Lifelong learning is the unsung hero of the educational landscape but it’s tricky to prove when data about the beneficial impacts can be so difficult to capture explains Caroline McDonald from HOLELX. Interview by Nicola Baird.
As AI reshapes entry-level jobs, Jim Knight is drawing on his government and education experience to ensure tech advancements strengthen, not reduce, opportunity for young people – especially those not in employment, education or training (NEET). Interview by Nicola Baird.
Simon Parkinson, CEO of the large adult learning charity, WEA, looks at the multiple pluses lifelong learning courses give adults – something that gets lost in translation by a government that still has no overall adult learning strategy. Interview by Nicola Baird.
We explore how migrants with professional backgrounds, returning parents, unpaid carers and experienced older residents represent a vast reserve of untapped human capital – and why lifelong learning is the key to unlocking it.
We explore how confidence, access and lifelong learning determine who gets to contribute to London’s economy – and why the boroughs investing in participation today are building the productive city of tomorrow.
We explore how lifelong learning addresses the social drivers of ill health – from isolation and low confidence to limited opportunity – and why the classroom may be one of the most powerful, and underused, tools in London’s public health arsenal.
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