Adult Learning Versus New Labour
A recent survey conducted by the The National Institute of Adult Continuing Education has found that the proportion of adult learners in the UK is at its lowest level since 1997. What happened in 1997? The Labour party came into power, that’s what. All this is the more embarrassing since Labour’s much vaunted push for adult learning earlier this year. As someone who works in...
Read MoreEverything Politicians Touch Turns to Waffle – That’s Official!
As a trainer and tutor, it’s commonplace for me to acknowledge that people learn in different ways. (These are called learning styles in the jargon.) They do this just because they are people, not robots or cogs in a bureaucratic machine. This is not a difficult concept to grasp. Unless you’re a politician, that is. In a heart-breaking and logic-defying article,...
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