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A National Education Service for Adults Too
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Todd, Nigel; Tuckett, Alan – FORUM: for promoting 3-19 comprehensive education, 2019
This article highlights the current collapse of adult learning opportunities and the key importance of adult learning to a new public education in a fast-changing world, and makes practical proposals for Labour's National Education Service.
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Educational Opportunities, Public Education, Adult Education
A World Worth Living in: 8th World Assembly of ICAE
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Tuckett, Alan – Adult Learning, 2012
Opportunities for adult learning are under pressure in far too many places in the world. This situation was made all too clear at the eighth World Assembly of the International Council for Adult Education (ICAE) in Malmo, Sweden this June. More than 700 adult educators from almost a hundred countries, all members of non-government associations,…
Descriptors: Popular Education, Adult Education, Adult Learning, Foreign Countries
It Depends on How You Look at It
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Tuckett, Alan – Adults Learning, 2010
Was CONFINTEA VI, the sixth UNESCO international conference on adult education, which took place in Belem, Brazil, in December, a success or failure? Do such inter-governmental events make any difference to learning opportunities for adults, North or South? The answer to the first question depends on what one compares the event with. From the…
Descriptors: Adult Education, International Organizations, Conferences (Gatherings), Global Approach
Tough Times for Adult Learners
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Tuckett, Alan; Aldridge, Fiona – Adults Learning, 2011
The key message of NIACE's 2011 survey of adult participation in learning is that recession is bad for lifelong learning for anyone over the age of 25. The survey highlights the central importance of workplaces as sites of adult learning--and the challenges posed to a learning society when opportunities to learn reduce. It shows that the gap…
Descriptors: Social Class, Adult Education, Lifelong Learning, Adult Learning
Unfinished Business
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Tuckett, Alan – Adults Learning, 2011
Adult learning is not a tidy business: adults fit learning into the spaces left by the other demands on complex lives, and into the spaces left in administrative structures overwhelmingly designed for other people. No simple metric can capture adults' diverse purposes and achievements, and no single programme can capture the full range of things…
Descriptors: Lifelong Learning, Adult Learning, Adult Education, Adult Students
Different Battleground, New Advocacy Tactics: A Decade of Adult Learning in England
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Quintero, Lucia; Tuckett, Alan – Convergence, 2007
In anticipation of CONFINTEA VI, this article critically reflects on the last decade of English adult education policy. The United Kingdom played an important role in 1997's Hamburg conference by putting forward International Adult Learners' Week, and inspiring delegates by its enthusiasm for adult education. However the trajectory of the past ten…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Education, Lifelong Learning, Adult Learning
NIACE 75th Anniversary Commemorative Edition.
Tuckett, Alan; And Others – Adults Learning (England), 1996
Includes "Something to Cheer About" (Tuckett); "From British Institute to National Institute, 1921-71" (Hutchinson); "Pre-history of the Arts Council" (Williams); "Adult Education in the Forces" (Adam); "Crisis in Adult Education" (Stock); "The REPLAN Experience" (Uden); and…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Advisory Committees, Art Education, Continuing Education