Can further education lead for learning in later life?
The decline in take up of adult and further education (FE) in the UK should be cause for acute concern …
Category Archives: Adult Education
Adult education – ‘a permanent national necessity’. For a caring democracy?
The report from the Centenary Commission on Adult Education, launched last month, has received some strong endorsements from a wide …
Education, age and social change
What is the role of education in achieving progressive social change? And how does this question link to the opportunities …
Rebuilding educational gerontology – reasons to be slightly more cheerful
Google ‘older people’s education’ and up comes a Guardian headline with the answer – ‘neglected’. The NIACE report in question was …
Adult education in the UK – can gerontology keep up?
A serious discussion has started about adult education. No-one looking at the membership of the new Adult Education Commission can …
Ageing Issues 