The Future for Lifelong Learning: An Independent Commission of Inquiry

5 Mar 2008

NIACE have released a  February 2008 briefing from "The Future for Lifelong Learning: An Independent Commission of Inquiry".

What is the future for lifelong learning?

• What and how do adults need to learn in our changing society?
• Who should benefit and how?
• What kinds of knowledge should we value?
• How should support for learning be organised and who should pay for what?
  

These are just some of the challenges that the Independent Commission of Inquiry for Lifelong Learning, chaired by Professor Sir David Watson, has set itself. The Inquiry is the most wide ranging and potentially far reaching review of its kind since the Adult Education Committee, established to advise the Ministry of Reconstruction at the end of the First World War, secured an emphasis on the social purpose of adult education in developing a notion of responsible citizenship.