Adult education Articles

Idleness: Where the right offers grievance, the centre-left needs to offer an answer – and honesty, writes Pat McFadden Take back control’. ‘Make America great again’. Two winning slogans from campaigns that have changed the face of politics in the United Kingdom and...

Ignorance: Beveridge would be heartened by the educational progress but ashamed of the skills inequality Looking back at William Beveridge’s Britain, he was right to denounce ‘ignorance’ as a giant on the road to reconstruction. Then, roughly 80 per cent of children...

Much has been made of the way that new technology creates potential divisions in society. The pace and nature of change could make large sections of the workforce obsolete on the basis of their current skills. From algorithmic robotics to big data analytics,...

It will not come to anyone’s surprise that the coalition is once again targeting their cuts agenda at those most disadvantaged in society. But what is coming next is just unthinkable. This week the Association of Colleges claimed that if the government continues to...