Confronting the Skills Paradox
An 18 month project with City & Guilds looking at participation in adult learning
"entitlements"
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- David Willets on FE White Paper "The most telling section of the [Foster] report was, as so often, hidden away in the appendices. Appendix 2 gives an outline of further education systems abroad. The US, Denmark, the Netherlands and Australia thrive on greater autonomy and a streamlined accreditation system. "The white paper's relative neglect of the over-25s is tantamount to ageism" from : duncanoleary 18th July 2006
- Mick Fletcher: The lesson is clear - people will invest in their future "Colleges moving courses outside LSC funding altogether are seeing the benefits of not having to worry about whether they are within the national qualifications framework or someone's idea of regional priorities. The approach might have the gratifying side-effect of allowing them to tell the LSC that their provision really is demand-led - providing what the customer actually wants, and will pay for - because it responds to paying customers rather than a dodgy dossier of labour market analysis" from : duncanoleary 18th July 2006
- Summary of 'Paying for Learning' study (pdf) Interesting study on attitudes to paying: - Confirms skills paradox ('Non-learners made up just over half of the sample in the Omnibus survey. Key characteristics were that they tended to be older, in lower social classes, unemployed and qualified to a lower level') - Finds people unaware of govt contribution to learning, 'loan averse, with half of non-learners not interested in learning - typology of learners and non-learners at the end from : duncanoleary 19th July 2006
- Employer Training Pilots: Final Evaluation Report Huge deadweight costs to pilot scheme that lead to train to gain: 'estimates suggest about ten per cent to 15 per cent of the training is additional training, and about 85 per cent to 90 per cent is deadweight.' from : duncanoleary 21st August 2006
- Learning for Life: A new framework for adult skills (ippr publication) IPPR report arguing that interest-free loans should be available to adults in FE, putting the system on a level foting with HE. Also argues for a stronger role for Local authotities. from : duncanoleary 19th March 2007