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A Passion for Learning
NIACE is an energetic and bustling organisation. It has over 120 staff undertaking over 70 research and development projects each year. This book is a series of reflections from contributors who have shared in the life of the organisation, whether by being involved directly as staff or as volunteers from the adult education profession.
Narrowing Participation
Documents adult participation in learning in the UK. Using responses of around 5,000 adults in the UK, this title offers key findings, breaking down participation, trends in participation and future intentions to learn by gender, socio-economic class, age, employment and the regions.
A Change for the Better
This year's adult participation survey from the UK's National Institute of Adult Continuing Education (NIACE) shows a sea change. After years of falling numbers, and an ever-widening gulf between the learning-rich and the learning-poor, there has been an upturn in the proportion of adults engaged in learning and in the number expecting to take part in the future. Current or recent adult participation in learning has risen to the highest level for a decade. While the survey maps the continuing divide between people who have enjoyed the benefits of a good initial education and those who left education with little to show, there is evidence of a significant shift - most strikingly for the UK's working-class adults and those who have had least benefit from learning to date. A Change for the Better offers key findings from the survey, breaking down trends in participation and future intentions to learn by gender, socio-economic class, age, employment, and region. It provides up-to-date data as well as a valuable means for comparison over time. For the first time, the survey includes a section on attitudes to learning.
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Are We Closing the Gap?
Includes research data that indicate that, collectively, adults from Britain's black and minority ethnic communities participate in learning in similar proportions to the general adult population.
Numeracy Counts. NIACE Committee of Inquiry on Adult Numeracy Learning. Final Report
Being numerate and understanding when and where to use maths is a vital part of being able to function as citizens, parents, employers or employees and entrepreneurs. This report makes it clear that having a successful approach to numeracy is of fundamental importance to this country and sets out a package of recommendations. Table of contents: * Preface * Introduction * Recommendations * Conclusion * References and further reading * Stages of the Inquiry.
Two Steps Forward, One Step Back
This year's survey of adult participation in learning tells a complicated tale. While participation has fallen since 2001, the data shows an overall trend of rising participation in the last six years, while also showing that progress has reinforced the gap between the learning-haves and the learning-have-nots. Adults in professional and managerial groups are more than twice as likely to learn as the poorest, least skilled and retired. The young participate in far greater numbers than the old, and those with jobs are more likely to have access to learning that those without. The survey suggests that there is a need for sustained policies to stimulate demand if we are to create a learning society for all. Launched during Adult Learners' Week 2002, Two steps forward, one step back builds on NIACE's previous surveys of participation in adult learning (The Learning Divide, Sargant et al, 1997, NIACE, ISBN 1 86201 016 1, £20.00 and The Learning Divide Revisited, Sargant, 2000, NIACE, ISBN 1 86201 088 9, £22.95; Winners and losers in an expanding system, Aldridge and Tuckett, 2001, NIACE, ISBN 1 86201 125 7, £6.00)
