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  • Spotlight on Aberdeen: A place-based approach to lifelong learning

    In partnership with Ufi VocTech Trust, we’ve launched an innovative place-based collaboration to boost adult participation in learning across Aberdeen. This blog gives an update on our progress.
  • Place-Based Partnerships: Spotlight on Hull

    In partnership with Ufi VocTech Trust, we’re identifying key barriers to learning in four areas across the UK and designing targeted solutions to overcome them. This is an update on our place-based collaboration work in Hull.
  • How can migrant communities be supported to access adult learning through the Adult Education Budget?

    As migrant communities arrive and begin to settle in the UK, it is important we support them to access education and training. L&W researcher Jack Bradstreet explains how.
  • Research and Reports 12 01 2024

    Supporting London’s Migrant Communities through the Adult Education Budget

    The GLA has introduced flexibilities to make adult education more accessible to migrant communities. This research explores the impact of these changes.
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  • Why making things matters

    To mark Lifelong Learning Week 2023 and our theme of Learning for Creativity and Culture, Jill Rutter, Head of Programme and Policy at Learning and Work Institute, explores inequalities in people’s access to craft courses in adult and further education.
  • Research and Reports 11 03 2022

    Social Prescribing and Adult Education in London

    Our report in partnership with Greater London Authority explores how social prescribing to adult education works, the challenges faced and ways to improve.
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  • Lockdown Learning: English Language Conversation Clubs Online

    When we developed the Volunteers, English Language Learners, Conversation Clubs resources in early 2020, we couldn’t have anticipated that a global pandemic was about to cause such severe disruption.
  • Research and Reports 01 08 2019

    Healthy, Wealthy, and Wise: Implications for workforce development

    A number of key thinkers from across UK further and adult education were commissioned to write short think pieces on the implications for leadership and workforce development.
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  • Research and Reports 06 05 2019

    Parent champion programmes: A guide for family learning providers

    This guide aims to assist those who want to start or develop a parent champion programme by providing guidelines, information, case studies and links to relevant organisations.
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