This document summarizes a presentation on community-based lifelong learning in the UK. It discusses the history of adult education in the UK through organizations like mechanics institutes. It outlines the vision of the Future of Lifelong Learning inquiry, including its 10 recommendations such as basing policy on a four-stage model of education and building entitlements. Current UK policy and practice is examined, including efforts on literacy, digital inclusion, and valuing non-vocational learning. European examples from a German learning regions project are provided. The presentation looks to share knowledge and ideas between the UK and Europe on advancing lifelong learning.

1. Community Based Lifelong
Learning - UK
Stuart Hollis
Alastair Clark

2. National Institute for
Adult Continuing
Learning
Largest non
governmental body
supporting adult learning.
Advocacy
Research
Development

3. Overview
 Looking Back (5 mins)
 A Vision for the future - Inquiry into Future of
Lifelong Learning (10 mins)
 Policy and practice in UK – Is this a revolution?
(10 mins)
 Europe – Overview ( 10 mins)
 Learning and sharing

4. Looking October Current policy A vision for
back 2009 and practice the future
Europe

5. The Foundations
 Mechanic Institutes
 Trade Unions
 Workers’ Education Association
 University extra mural

6.  a

7. The village college ...... would provide for the whole man,
and abolish the duality of education and ordinary life.

8. . It would not only be the training ground for the art of living,
but the place in which life is lived, the environment of a
genuine corporate life.
The dismal dispute of vocational and non-vocational
education would not arise in it.
It would be a visible demonstration in stone of the continuity
and never ceasingness of education

9. Classes for adults Sports Groups
Pre school learning School learning
Community
organisations Arts Groups
The dismal dispute of vocational and non-vocational education
would not arise.

10. BBC
Education
Information
Entertainment
Open University

11. Wales
Northern
Ireland
England
Scotland

12. Source : NIACE survey on adult participation in learning 2009
Participation in learning in UK
Current or recent Future intentions to
participation in learn
learning
Northern Ireland 42% 58%
Wales 41% 64%
England 39% 59%
Scotland 33% 65%

14. Vision of the future
Inquiry into Future of
Lifelong Learning
 Independent
 10 commissioners
 28 Supplementary papers
 18 months for evidence to
be received
 Cost £1,000,000

15. Recommendations
1. Base Lifelong Learning Policy on a 4 stage model
2. Rebalance resources across life courses
3. Build a set of entitlements
4. Engineer flexibility: system of credits to encourage part time
study
5. Improve quality of work
6. Citizens Curriculum
7. Broadening and strengthening capacity of lifelong learning
workforce
8. Revive local responsibility
9. ...within national frameworks
10. Making the system intelligent

16. Recommendations
1. Base Lifelong Learning Policy on a 4 stage model
2. Rebalance resources across life courses
3. Build a set of entitlements
4. Engineer flexibility: system of credits to encourage part time
study
5. Improve quality of work
6. Citizens Curriculum
7. Broadening and strengthening capacity of lifelong
learning workforce
8. Revive local responsibility
9. ...within national frameworks
10. Making the system intelligent

17. 1 Base Lifelong Learning Policy on
a 4 stage model
2 Rebalance Lifelong Learning
resources across life courses

18. 2002
Demographic
challenge for
2050 the UK

20. 4 staged Current Proposed
Expenditure Expenditure
model
 18-24  86%  80%
 25-49  11%  15%
 50-74  2.5%  4%
 75 +  0.5%  1%

21. 3 Build a set of entitlements
 Free access to literacy and numeracy
(Level 1)
 Financial support for minimum levels of
qualifications needed for active participation
in society
 ‘Learning leave’ from employment.
 Transition entitlements

22. 6 Citizens’ curriculum
 Four capabilities
• Digital
• Health
• Financial
• Civic
(employability across all these)

24. 7 Broadening and strengthening
capacity of the lifelong learning
workforce

25. 9........within national frameworks

26. 10 Intelligent system
 ‘State of Learning report’ produced by
government every three years
 Use OECD comparitors.

27. Final word from the Inquiry
 ....those engaged with lifelong learning in
any capacity need to better understand the
implications of technology, so that future
societies are the ones we seek rather
than the ones we end up with.

28. Looking October Current policy A vision for
back 2009 and practice the future
Europe

29. Current policy and practice
 Teaching traditions
 Literacy and Numeracy
 Digital Inclusion
 Workforce Reform
 Education for sustainable development
 Government policy on non vocational
learning.

30. Teaching traditions

31. Less information transmission and more active
learning.

32. Literacy and Numeracy
Moser Report (1999) A Response
Fresh Start
 £5bn investment in
7 million adults in since 2001
England, had low levels  12 million learning
of literacy skills. opportunities taken
 2.8million quals
The situation for
numeracy was worse,

33. Digital Inclusion
11 Million adults not  6,000 UK online
using online world centres
 Digital Life Skills
(9 hours course)
 Social marketing
campaign
 Digital Champion

34. Workforce reforms
Teachers of
adults
 Qualified
 30 hours
Professional
Development
each year

35. E-Learning

36. March 2003 the LSC launched its strategy for
developing the use of e-learning
Local
Strategies
Local Support

40. E maturity – How well is technology used?

41. Government policy on non
vocational learning.
The dismal dispute of vocational and non-vocational education(1923)
Twentyfirst century
Skills

42. Informal Adult Learning
 Not accredited and not job related
 Can be structured or unstructured
A course?
A Museum visit?
A TV programme?
An interest group
A Web site?

43. What does the policy offer?
 Encourages partnerships:
• Course providers
• Broadcasters
• Museums
• Voluntary Groups
• Community Learning Champions

45. Europe
 European
traditions
 European Policy
 Some examples
from Germany

46. European Policy
Lifelong Learning programme 2007 – 2013 with 4
sections:
 Comenius – School pupils involved in joint activities
Erasmus – Higher Education students mobility
Leonardo – Vocational Education and Training
Grundvig – Adult Education

47. Germany
Volkshochschule (adult learning centre)
in Koblenz

48. The German Learning Regions
Project
Developing sustainable structures
and organisations of regional
networks for Lifelong Learning,
- Education marketing
- Lifelong guidance
-Innovative forms of teaching and learning
- New transitions between educational phases
- Work with small and medium-sized
enterprises,
71 Networks
http://www.lernende-regionen.info/

49. European Institute for E learning
 Add logo
http://www.eife-l.org/

50. Professionalisation
a personal view – Klaus Heuer

51. Looking October Current policy A vision for
back 2009 and practice the future
Europe

52. What I brought What I take
 A bit of history
 A Vision for Lifelong
Learning
• 10 recommendations
 Current practice
• Professionalisation
• Partnership working
 Europe
• Echoes of Britain.

53. alastair.clark@niace.org.uk