Transcript Lifelong Learning Roddie Shepherd Professional Adviser, Academic The Library Association

Lifelong Learning
Roddie Shepherd
Professional Adviser, Academic
The Library Association
Lifelong Learning
The Learning Age : issues
& opportunities for LIS
– what lifelong learning is and why it is
important
– the Learning Age Green Paper
– the challenges + opportunities for LIS in
HE
– our responses
Lifelong Learning
What is lifelong learning?
Campaign for Learning definition
– Learning is a process of active
engagement with experience
– It is what people do when they want to
make sense of the world
– It may involve an increase in skills,
knowledge, understanding, values or the
capacity to reflect
– Effective learning will lead to change,
development and a desire to learn more
Lifelong Learning
Why is lifelong learning
important?
LC
where L is Learning and C is Change
Applies to society, communities, organisations
and individuals.
Lifelong Learning
Why is lifelong learning
important?
LC
where L is Learning and C is Change
Applies to society, communities, organisations
and individuals.
We don’t have to do this … survival is not
compulsory
Lifelong Learning
The Green Paper on
Lifelong Learning
The Learning Age : a renaissance for a
new Britain
Foreword by the Secretary of State
Introduction
1. The individual learning revolution
2. Investing in learning
3. Learning at work
4. Realising the Learning Age
5. Ensuring standards, quality and accountability
6. Recognising achievement
Lifelong Learning
Introduction
Education is the best economic policy we’ve
got
The weakness: basic and intermediate skills
– 7m adults have no formal qualifications at all
– 21m adults have not reached level 3 (equivalent to 2 A
levels)
– 1 in 5 adults have poor literacy and numeracy skills
Lifelong Learning
10 policy commitments
– Expansion of F & HE - 500K extra students by 2002
– Launch the University for Industry in late 1999
– Set up Individual Learning Accounts - £150m to set up 1m ILAs
initially
– Invest in Young People - increase the numbers studying beyond
age 16
– double the number of adults receiving literacy and numeracy
training - 500K by 2002
– widen participation and access
– raise teaching / learning standards
– National targets for skills and qualifications
– develop workplace learning - employers, employees and Trade
Unions
– revise qualifications structure for clarity, relevance and standards
Lifelong Learning
1. The Individual Learning
Revolution
The country needs to develop a new learning culture, a culture
of lifelong learning for all
The University for Industry
connect individual & cos. who want to learn with ways of doing so
Learning Direct
Call: 0800 100 900
Mon - Fri 9 - 9
Sat 9 - 12
BECTA
British Educational Communications & Technology Agency (ex NCET)
Broadcasters
– raising awareness, widening access, distributing learning
opportunities
– BBC Learning
Lifelong Learning
2. Investing in Learning
Investing in learning benefits everyone so it should be a shared
responsibility.
We will target public funds for student support on learners in greatest
need.
The Priorities for the public funding of lifelong learning:
– to bring back into learning those who stopped after leaving school
– address particular shortages
– widen access to those who are disadvantaged
– enable individuals to choose the method of learning that suits them best.
Individual Learning Accounts
– accounts which will allow individuals to save and borrow for learning
– potential for a whole new funding steer
Support for Students
Reform LEA awards + a national childcare strategy
Lifelong Learning
3. Learning at Work
… individuals and their employers will share responsibility for
increasing the quality and quantity of learning at work
Investors in People as the general standard
Trade Union role
5 priority areas of work-related skills
– basic skills
– employability skills
– modern apprenticeships
– technician skills
– managerial skills
Lifelong Learning
4. Realising the Learning
Age
… will require every part of the education and training system
to make its contribution
Investing in Young People
FE and the Kennedy Report
Collaboration
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a collaborative network of tertiary education
co-operation between schools and colleges
coherent planning and funding arrangements in post-16 education
Collaboration Fund
Participation
– colleges to seek out groups with low participation and people who have not
achieved
– FEFC to encourage wider participation through weighted funding.
– 80K extra largely drawn from the educationally disadvantaged population
achieved
Lifelong Learning
4. Realising the Learning
Age
… will require every part of the education and training system to
make its contribution
Higher Education and the Dearing Report
Widening access
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people with disabilities
people from semi-skilled/ unskilled family backgrounds
people from deprived backgrounds
Afro-Caribbean men & Bangladeshi women
women and ethnic minorities in certain subject disciplines
FE/ HE Collaboration
– better links between FE colleges in disadvantaged areas and HEIs
– F & HE projects to address low expectation/ achievement and
promote progression
– FE will enable more people to go on to HE
HE in FE
£4m for diploma courses, mainly in FE
Lifelong Learning
4. Realising the Learning
Age
… will require every part of the education and training system to make
its contribution
Inclusive Learning
– improve access for students with disabilities and special
learning needs, including severe learning difficulties
– Tomlinson Committee Report Inclusive Learning
Public Libraries
– £50m lottery funding to provide digital content for libraries
– proposals for the public libraries electronic network
Lifelong Learning
5. Ensuring standards,
quality and accountability
The UK must aim for world-class standards in the Learning Age
FE:
– annual targets to improve retention and achievement
– all new FE teachers to acquire an initial teacher training
qualification within 2 years
– establish a NTO for FE by the end of the year
– harmonise post-16 inspection arrangements: schools, FE colleges,
Adult Education, training providers
HE:
– the Funding Councils to establish a direct link between funding and
quality in teaching and learning
– the Funding Councils to identify ways of rewarding successful
outreach to the disadvantaged or under-represented
– the Institute of Learning & Teaching should be established asap
Lifelong Learning
6. Recognising achievement
Qualifications in the Learning Age should meet the needs of people
and uphold standards. They must value both academic and
vocational achievement
Qualifications should
• state what is needed to achieve a given standard or skill
• provide step-by-step progress through education and training
• allow people to take small steps and choose combinations
• be recognised by employers and society as a whole
The Quality Assurance Agency for HE to establish a national framework
for HE qualifications - underpinned by Credit Accumulation and
Transfer
The Qualifications and Curriculum Authority to develop a framework for
all non-HE national qualifications (in England)
Lifelong Learning
Key skills
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people skills
communications skills, including writing skills
number skills
IT skills
learning skills
problem solving skills
Qualifications targeted at adults should be available through a wide
variety of methods of learning
Lifelong Learning
Library & Learning Resources:
issues and opportunities
Widening participation
Accessibility and flexibility
– 4,759 public library service points in the UK, including 693 mobile
libraries
– 210 Open Learning Centres attached to public libraries
– 19,136 public library provided service points in hospitals, prisons,
old peoples’ homes
– 5,900 secondary school libraries
– 835 libraries and learning resources centres in FE colleges
– 600 library service points in HE institutions
Lifelong Learning
Library & Learning Resources:
issues and opportunities
Collaboration, co-operation and partnership
– ALLIN - the Access to Libraries for Learning in Northamptonshire scheme
The Learning Resources Services of Nene College of HE and Northants
LIS. Nov 1997
– Derbyshire Libraries Statement of Co-operation
7 FE colls, 4 hospitals, 2 public library authorities, 1 university, 1 police
authority
– The Halton Community Project
N & Mid Cheshire TEC, Halton College and Runcorn Public Library
– Libraries Access Sunderland Scheme
The LIS of Sunderland University, City College, and Sunderland Public
Libraries
Provide 29 service points, 2.5K study places, circa 4K PCs throughout the
city
– People Flows
Research project, managed from the University of Central England, to
report July 1998. The aims: to investigate the extent of cross-use of FE, HE
and public libraries
Lifelong Learning
Library & Learning Resources:
issues and opportunities
Expansion and diversity
Inclusive learning
– Share good practice
– internal partnerships
– staff development
ILT/ Communications Technology
– flexibility of access + learner choice
– assistive technology for inclusive learning
– coping with expansion + distributing and sharing access to
resources
Professional skills, competences and culture
– learning & learner support skills
– the fit with the skills of others
– a professional culture of collaboration, co-operation and partnership