It’s jubilee year for LSRN, the Learning and Skills Research Network. Only silver, admittedly, but 25 years is a long time in this sector.
The same spirit that brought together research enthusiasts in 1997 is still at work today. More convenors than ever before – stretching across the regions of England, from Devon and Cornwall to the north east and across Wales – continue to promote the role of research in FE, just as in its founding days.
It was at the glorious Coombe Lodge campus of the then-Further Education Development Agency that the idea of a network emerged following a residential workshop (remember them?) on ‘Research in FE’. A simple statement of purposes and values and a few guiding principles agreed in 1997 remain unchanged and influential to this day.
