FE can show HE how to support disadvantaged adult learners
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Multiply your number confidence to help get on at work
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Adult learners are returning to classrooms – but further education will never be the same again
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Adult learners lose confidence when course funding is withdrawn last minute
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Flexible student loans will fund multiple skills courses
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Results day sees adult learners step towards new careers
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Lifelong loan restrictions for non-STEM subjects ‘make no sense’
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ESFA funded opportunity for delivery of education and training to adult learners' resident in Somerset
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Majority of adult learners would upskill at university if given the chance
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SQA results: Spare a thought for older learners
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From Saturday adults can go to the pub but not to college. Could that change before September?
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Adult education charity rescued by council
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To help 'left behind' Britain, more adults need to feel able to go to university | Alistair Jarvis
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I quit my boring job for university at 30. The expense was daunting, but my self-worth soared
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UK risks falling behind post-Brexit as new survey shows number of adults improving their skills has fallen to record low
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Marsden: Action needed to tackle drop in adult learners
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2019 regional Supporting Learners events - dates announced
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Evidence Safari: How might we motivate adults to learn new skills?
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NEU Cymru call for ‘vision’ during Adult Learners’ week
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Why has the mature student become a dying breed?
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Education creates the engaged citizens the UK needs
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‘Little time’ given to adult learners in Augar review
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While participation in adult learning is in decline, Festival of Learning aims to show that barriers can be overcome through its award winners’ stories
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Stephen Petty: The benefits of having vetted adults learning in schools
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'Adult learning is addictive, but easy to avoid'
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In the news 9 November 2018
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Adult learners drop to 20-year low
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Further education: flexible learning fund
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Adult education: why adults decide to study
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Exciting new look Climbing Frame website ready to support learners
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Basic digital skills: Anne Milton and Sally Collier
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57 staff already appointed to the London Mayor’s £3m AEB team
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'Engaging adults in learning is critical'
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Help the Government to design a new training offer for adults
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What triggers adults to participate in learning?
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Adult learning is transforming confidence of UK parents
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Research into phonics use to teach adults needed
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Reaching out to adult learners far from education
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Learndirect in talks on rescue sale
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What happens when ordinary people learn economics? | Aditya Chakrabortty
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Adult learning key to helping people into work in Wales
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The adult learner
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Research into adult phonics launched as part of Functional Skills Reform
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Fears for nearly 3,000 learners as large provider folding
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Adult learners are vital to our skills strategy
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Less careers strategy, more high-risk experiment
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How can we get more adults to learn?
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  • Dec 6, 2017
The government launches its long-awaited careers strategy
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Careers strategy: making the most of everyone’s skills and talents – our response
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Adult FE achievement falls
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Exeter College comes top in FE Week's league table – again
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Caroline Spelman MP: It’s time to give all refugees in Britain a voice
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More to do to engage adults with Advanced Learner Loans
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Rosie Winterton MP checking out further education at Doncaster College
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  • Sep 21, 2017
Two thirds of loan-funded learners from collapsed providers still lack alternative provision
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  • Sep 18, 2017
Number of adult learners on benefits falls to five-year low
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  • Aug 30, 2017
This is what it's like to go to university as a mature student
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Woman, 90, on sixth degree 'addicted' to studying
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£35 million of innovative employment schemes to benefit thousands of disadvantaged people
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Unions supporting high quality apprenticeships
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USA: Decorated World War Two veteran, 97, graduates from high school
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Private providers outperform colleges for learner satisfaction
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ATL comment on skills shortages
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A new dawn for further education?
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Ofsted watch: Traineeships silver lining for provider stuck on grade three
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Guardian Education Centre 15th anniversary: 15 things you may not know about us
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  • May 22, 2017
Labour Party Manifesto - towards a National Education Service
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  • May 16, 2017
Priorities for a new government: advice from our academics part 2
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  • May 12, 2017
Draft Labour Party manifesto FE section in full
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  • May 11, 2017
Labour would 'scrap tuition fees once and for all', John McDonnell announces
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Angela Rayner: 'Labour will end the historic neglect of further education'
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Labour spells out plans to drive apprenticeships quality to FE Week
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Angela Rayner hints at Labour manifesto pledge to scrap tuition fees
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  • May 10, 2017
Liberal Democrats announce education pledges
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Colleges call on the next Government to invest in more opportunities for students
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Labour Party announces education pledges
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Corbyn plans to hike corporation tax to 26% to fund spending spree on schools and grants for college students
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Labour makes £5 billion school funding pledge
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Jeremy Corbyn promises to halt Tory school cuts and reduce class sizes in £20bn education manifesto
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Labour pledge to stop adult learner fees would mean scrapping FE loans
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Labour pledges to bring back education maintenance allowance
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The Supporting maths and English learning in the workplace - a guide for union learning reps
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Whole FE sector backs #SaveOurAdultEducation campaign
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Gordon Marsden MP: Chancellor's Budget proposals are a 'soufflé of jargon'
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When is an apprentice not an apprentice?
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To increase social mobility, invest in adult education
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Major new investment in technical education
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FE Week launches #SaveOurAdultEducation campaign
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Further education bodies in united call for Autumn Statement investment
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Further education bodies in united call for autumn statement investment
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Unionlearn joins call for autumn statement investment in FE
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Additional funding needed for FE, sector organisations urge in joint letter
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