How can we drive up essential skills participation? Looking at other countries’ strategies to illuminate best practice.
Too many people in the UK do not have the essential skills they need to get on in life and the number of adults participating in learning has fallen over the last decades. We look at four countries - Australia, Germany, Norway and Switzerland - to help shed light on ways in which there may be scope to strengthen and develop adult basic skills policy in England, ultimately helping to drive up participation.