Adult education

Adult learning deserves a national conversation

Too often policy is made without hearing from the people delivering it. A new APPG inquiry into adult education...

Jessica Hill
Jonathan Brash
Adult education

Adult education is also about strengthening our democracy

Adult education has been reduced to an economic tool, but its real power lies in rebuilding connection, confidence and...

Jessica Hill
Dipa Ganguli
Adult education

Essential skills are the missing test of the skills white paper

Reforms to help more adults read, write and get online are welcome, but reversing a 60% drop in participation...

Jessica Hill
Alex Stevenson
Colleges

Criminal probe into ‘unlawful’ sale of City College Peterborough campus

3 arrests made as over £1m in illegal financial transactions are linked to £1 sale of college site

Anviksha Patel
Anviksha Patel
Adult education

Reverse adult education cuts now, protesters tell MPs

Hundreds of adult education advocates lobby MPs to pay attention to funding cuts

Anviksha Patel
Anviksha Patel
Adult education

What Victorian philanthropists can teach today’s FE policymakers

The Victorians built an adult education model rooted in equality and civic renewal – in this fractured era their...

Jessica Hill
Tom Schuller
Adult education, Long read

The wounded mothership: the WEA navigates adult education’s new era

Jessica Hill meets the WEA’s chief executive Simon Parkinson at the group’s new Brighton base to hear how the...

Jessica Hill
Jessica Hill
Adult education

Ed Balls among inaugural Get the Nation Learning award winners

Former politician and broadcast production company recognised for lifelong learning commitments

Anviksha Patel
Anviksha Patel
Adult education

White paper misses the mark by omitting adults

The post-16 education and skills white paper could have been the defining moment for a genuine lifelong learning revolution....

Jessica Hill
Dipa Ganguli and Caroline McDonald