If you would like to attend this event, please e-mail us at events@smf.co.uk to reserve a place.
Date: Tuesday, 15th January 2008, 10.30am-1pm
Location: One Great George Street, London, SW1P 3AA
Speakers: Rt. Hon John Denham MP, Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills; introduced by Professor Richard Taylor, Director of Continuing Education and Lifelong Learning, Institute of Continuing Education, University of Cambridge
Chair: Ann Rossiter
The pioneers of adult education believed that education was both about providing people with the skills they needed to find and keep employment as well as the need to raise people’s horizons.
The approach was supported by some of the best British traditions of the 20th century - the WEA, the mass liberal arts movement, the Open University – along with progressive public policies, such as support for public service broadcasting, free museum and gallery admissions and the National Trust.
Given the increasing complexity of the world, the growing number of choices open to people and the changing technological solutions available we have to rethink how we can re-energise adult education services for the modern world. And we need to see this as a service delivered across government by all departments.
The Social Market Foundation will hold a seminar to address these issues and in particular the question of what the pioneers of adult education would have said about adult education in the 21st Century.
The keynote address will be given by the Rt. Hon John Denham MP, with an introduction from Prof Richard Taylor and followed by a Q&A session. A buffet lunch will be provided.
If you would like to attend this event, please e-mail us at events@smf.co.uk to reserve a place.
This event is kindly supported by the National Institute of Adult Continuing Education