Adult education

Refugee and coffee shop owner among adult learning award finalists

London's second Adult Learning Awards, sponsored by FE Week and Ascentis, is less than two weeks away

Shane Chowen
Shane Chowen
Adult education

Workers face £40k financial penalty if they switch careers, research warns

Experts call for lifelong learning entitlement to be expanded to help ease financial burden

Joshua Stein
Joshua Stein
Adult education

Excluding adults from FE reform is a costly political error

Adult learners are as deserving of funding and policy focus as all others – and fundamental to our short-term...

JL Dutaut
Simon Parkinson
Adult education

£30m allocated in first year of Sunak’s flagship maths scheme goes unspent 

Whitehall too 'short-termist' after councils return most of Multiply funding

Anviksha Patel
Anviksha Patel
Adult education

Employer partnerships are no longer enough to tackle the skills crisis 

LSIPs require us to look beyond competition between education providers to maximise investment and impact, explains Louise Wolsey

JL Dutaut
Louise Wolsey
Adult education

Awarding organisations are perfectly placed to break barriers to LLE 

Mary Curnock Cook reveals key recommendations to overcome hurdles on the way to launching the new lifelong learning entitlement

JL Dutaut
Mary Curnock Cook
Adult education

Bankrupt council won’t lose adult education service

The city council is the second largest recipient of AEB funding from the West Midlands Combined Authority

Shane Chowen
Shane Chowen
Adult education

FE needed a movement to improve literacy. Now it’s got one

A new collective has set itself the aim of harnessing literacy for social mobility across the curriculum, explains Kirsty...

JL Dutaut
Kirsty Haughton
Adult education

DfE hands out extra AEB contract

National tender confusion and controversy mounts

Billy Camden
Billy Camden