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| Learning through life | | Author(s) | Sir David Watson |
| Corporate Author | Inquiry into the Future for Lifelong Learning - IFLL, NIACE - National Institute of Adult Continuing Education |
| Publisher | NIACE, Leicester, 2009 |
| Pages | 290 pp |
| Source | NIACE, 21 De Montfort Street, Leicester LE1 7GE. Website: http://www.niace.org.uk/lifelonglearninginquiry/de... |
| Annotation | Learning Through Life is the report of a two-year Independent Inquiry into the Future for Lifelong Learning sponsored by NIACE, the National Institute of Adult Continuing Education. The Inquiry found the current system too complex and opaque, too skewed to the young and de-motivating for too many, thereby leading to educational inequalities accumulating over the course of people's lives to an unacceptable extent. As life patterns become more complex and less predictable with increased job changes, greater geographical and social mobility and more frequent family changes, adults need ever greater skills and knowledge to remain successful, fulfilled and independent. Moreover, a rapidly ageing and dependent population will lead to a steep rise in the numbers of people who are socially and economically excluded, unless they can gain greater skills to control and give quality to their own lives. Failure to tackle these issues will waste talent and create an ever greater health and welfare burden on families and the taxpayer. This report provides a radical vision entailing fundamental reform of the educational budget to ensure lifelong learning is a central strategy of the UK's educational system. (KJ). |
| Accession Number | CPA-090917201 E |
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