Global Perspectives on Adult Education and Learning Policy by Marcella Milana, Tom Nesbit

By Marcella Milana, Tom Nesbit

The global visual appeal and expression of grownup schooling and lifetime studying have replaced considerably prior to now twenty years. This e-book explores contemporary adjustments of their similar nationwide and foreign regulations, how they intersect with advancements in larger schooling and the way they might give a contribution to debates on citizenship and democracy.

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While the unions and the WEA remain important actors in Scottish adult learning, they have never had the same support from the state as their counterparts in England. Nor has a similar coalition of adult education professionals emerged that is comparable with the National Institute for Adult Continuing Education in England and Wales. The Scottish Institute of Adult Education was created at the end of the 1940s, and it survived until it lost its government grant of around £40,000 a year, a decision that was taken by the then Conservative UK Government in 1991.

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Yet the challenges faced by Scottish society – the impact of recession, pressures for flexibility and adaptability, longer-term concerns over competitiveness, demographic ageing, the risks of social polarization – are precisely the same as those which have led governments elsewhere to examine closely their arrangements for promoting learning through the life course. As the next section shows, though, after a flurry of interest between 1999 and 2004, the Scottish Government’s interest in lifelong learning has waned.

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