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Where’s adult education in the NHS prevention plan?

Prevention is a key focus of the new NHS 10-year plan. But the government is cutting adult education budgets that can help deliver the community-based social prescribing solutions needed at the heart of prevention strategies

Historic adult education centre considers merger amid financial intervention

The FE Commissioner called the charity’s budget management processes ‘inadequate’

It’s wrong that nobody knows if the adult skills fund actually works

Unlike apprenticeships, adult skills funding operates in a data black hole. Should the grant-allocated system in adult education be phased out?

‘Wonderful’: DfE simplifies residency rules for adult learners

New residency rules come into effect from August 1

‘Get the Nation Learning’ could change our culture and society

Our L&W lifelong learning campaign is a rallying call to build the thriving country we want to live in

Spending review marks yet another failure for adult skills

Despite cross-government recognition of adult skills being vital for growth, Rachel Reeves has not delivered the investment needed to improve our fragmented and exclusionary system

Stephen Evans, CEO of Learning and Work Institute

Battling cuts to adult education has been the defining task for Stephen Evans at Learning and Work Institute, but money was no object when his career began at the Treasury under Gordon Brown, he tells Jessica Hill Stephen Evans’ decade as chief executive of Learning and Work Institute (L&W) has been a fight against the […]

Why Labour’s immigration plan misses the mark on ESOL

Labour’s new immigration plan ties English proficiency to visas, but ignores a deeper crisis in investment in ESOL provision

Funding cuts mean the immigration plan won’t add up

With funding slashed and demand rising, the ESOL and wider adult education sector is being set up to fail just when the government needs it most