Description
Book SynopsisHow can opportunities for teaching and learning be improved to ensure that many more people participate, gain qualifications and obtain decent jobs? Will government policies enable us to achieve these goals? What new ideas do we need to ensure a more inclusive, equitable and efficient learning system? These are some of the main concerns which underlie this thought-provoking book coming from a major research project looking at how policies affect learners, tutors, managers and institutional leaders in Further Education Colleges, Adult and Community Learning centres and in Work Based Learning sites.
Post compulsory education in the UK has been constantly restructured by the New Labour government and has been subject to considerable policy turbulence over the last few years. This book attempts to understand this important but poorly understood sector by both talking to students and front-line staff and by interviewing the officials responsible for managing post-compulsory educati
Table of Contents
Section 1: What are the issues? 1. The main themes 2. The context and rationale of the research and the book Section 2: What does the research show? 3. The learners’ story 4. The policy-makers’ stories 5. The tutors’ stories 6. The story of the sector in action 7 . How inclusive is the sector? Section 3: Overall implications 8. Alternative futures Methodological appendix: How we developed the stories
