Adult education

Adult education is helping keep Ukrainian people strong

The Ukrainian Adult Education Association outlines efforts of educators in defence against Russian invasion.

Jason Noble
Jason Noble
Adult education

Festival of Learning 2022 award winners announced

The awards highlight inspiring lifelong learning stories of learners, tutors, employers and providers.

Shane Chowen
Shane Chowen
Adult education

Councils are taking wildly different approaches to Multiply

Hard-to-reach learners won’t be helped by the programme if councils engage the same old providers, writes Ian Ross It...

Jess Staufenberg
Ian Ross
Adult education, Colleges

Investigation: how colleges coped with the £61.4m AEB clawback

Redundancies and merging classes among measures colleges have taken to mitigate clawback of adult education budget

Jason Noble
Jason Noble
Adult education

Less generous adult education clawback threshold offered in most devolved areas

The Education and Skills Funding Agency’s threshold for funding adult education courses that are not delivered is more generous...

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
Adult education

ESFA increases adult education over-delivery threshold

But under-delivery has reverted to the pre-pandemic threshold

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
Adult education, Apprenticeships, Politics

IFS: Spending on adult education and apprenticeships will be 25% below 2010 levels by 2025

Spending on adult education and apprenticeships fell by 38 per cent in real-terms between 2010–11 and 2020–21

Will Nott
Will Nott
Adult education

Controversy as Liverpool City Region hands adult education budget contracts to ‘out-of-area’ providers

16 providers won procured contracts in the Liverpool City Region’s latest AEB tender

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
Adult education

DfE – look at Scotland’s plans for an adult learning strategy

England needs an all-stages and all-levels levelling-up lifelong adult learning plan, writes Sue Pember Both Wales and Scotland are...

Jess Staufenberg
Sue Pember