The Social Market Foundation
Kindly supported by the National Institute of Adult Continuing Education
The Value of Adult Education in the 21st Century
Rt. Hon John Denham MP, Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills
Introduction from Prof Richard Taylor, Director of Continuing Education and Lifelong Learning, Institute of Continuing Education, University of Cambridge
Tuesday, 15th January 2008, 10.30am-1pm
One Great George Street, London, SW1P 3AA
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.
For enquires please contact Robert Sharp, Communications Officer
rsharp@smf.co.uk or
020 7227 4411.
