Warmest season's greetings to you and your families, accompanied by our most sincere wishes for a bright, prosperous and peaceful new year!

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It was great presenting on 'the skills revolution' at this event with David Blunkett Jonathan Michie Centre for Inequality & Levelling Up UALL The WEA Nimmi Patel You can read my speech here: skope.ox.ac.uk/wp-content/upl… Department of Education, University of Oxford SKOPE

Uni of Kent - still time to sign up tinyurl.com/v9wy5tch presenting paper tinyurl.com/4c7hm4w9 & symposium re academia and industry ‘language gap’ for UALL W&L network MDX Centre for Education Research and Scholarship Work and Learning Network University of Kent UALL

Representing The WEA with Chris Butcher at UALL Centre for Inequality & Levelling Up event discussing skills & lifelong learning. David Blunkett Jonathan Michie Nimmi Patel James Robson
Overall impression: the post 16 education sector has a shared mission & we all need to do more to join up our work

📣 New on our #blog , a two-parter!

First up, staff reflections on a paper co-presented with two recent LLC #graduates at the joint UALL SCUTREA conference Cambridge University this summer - and the #collaborative #research project which informed it

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Recognising Talent for Care: Pathways for Progression – 17 October 2023 Showcase for a NHS England sponsored project with SEEC Descriptors for the Senior Healthcare Support Worker apprenticeship. Register for webinar 1 eventbrite.co.uk/e/seec-webinar… Work and Learning Network MDX Centre for Education Research and Scholarship UALL

#IFSGreenBudget EVENT: Reforming training and skills policy

Thurs 12 Oct 2023 | 10 - 11:15am | Online

We present new research on England's approach to investing in adult education, with Simon Field, David Hughes CBE and Mary Mahoney (@UALL_UK).

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Age, not class, is now the biggest divide in British politics, new research confirms - by John Curtice theconversation.com/age-not-class-…

Obituary of Teddy Thomas Centenary Commission on Adult Education UoN Education UALL Paul Greatrix Alan Tuckett Sharon Clancy John Field 🌻 @cillaross5 Jonathan Michie Volker Wedekind Shearer West Sarah Speight Melissa Benn Marcella Milana International Journal of Lifelong Education Simon Parkinson Howard Stevenson Mel Lenehan theguardian.com/education/2023…

Embrace the power of #lifelonglearning !

Let's celebrate the diverse stories of lifelong learners worldwide.

Join our #ImALifelongLearner campaign and share your learning journey today!

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Great opportunity for all those willing to read a key reference on lifelong learning for free - though time is limited!

Cities are key to promoting education for sustainable development through #lifelonglearning programs that impart new knowledge & attitudes to learners of all ages & backgrounds.

Watch our video tutorial to learn why & how learning cities can promote ESD 👉bitly.ws/PZgV

'Creating a green future that leaves no one behind means rethinking the purposes of education', writes editor Paul Stanistreet in his introduction to the latest International Review of Education issue.

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#SDG4 #LifelongLearning

This is designed to limit widening participation, to further position higher education as the preserve of the white, the wealthy, the young and the non-disabled, all those who are more able to get ‘graduate level’ outcomes. Engineered elitism theguardian.com/education/2023…

And Sharon Clancy and Iain Jones’s final workshop on research circles 👏
Bravo to all that presented. Here’s to next year and more opportunities for knowledge-exchange and networking 👍

The awards night! Including the recognition of adult learning practitioners at the The Open University and many more… 👍

The countdown is on…

It’s only 5 days until #FestivalofLearning2023 ! ✨

We’ll be celebrating some truly incredible individuals, tutors, providers and employers and their achievements in adult learning.

📺 Join us live on the day: youtube.com/live/oZ7duUA6u…

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