Professor Jill Brunt Acting Deputy Director Widening Participation in Learning

Lifelong Learning Networks – Realising the Potential of a Learning Journey Living and working in South Yorkshire and North Derbyshire Making a myriad of partnerships work The UK Skills Agenda - `World Class Skills in a Demand Led System` What is world class and where will demand come from? Level 2 WON’T do

Putting the People Back in to Learning Personalisation and Choice are key policy drivers in the public sector Evidence base for starting where people are rather than where you think they should be Shift away from the `skills deficit` model Learning in the spirit of Social Partnership A more flexible approach to different learning methods Improved workbased and workplace learning A slow burn approach to learning through work, rather than a destination to be reached asap Creative learning journeys that build on people’s experience and passions, as well as meeting an economic necessity

Recognising the Context Changes in social, political and cultural institutions Restructuring of work, employment and industry Information and Knowledge revolution Social fragmentation and division New forms and expressions of citizenship Demand for new skills Need for workers to be flexible and creative Changes in industries and occupations Challenges of competitiveness Learning - Making sense of change, Adapting to Change, Shaping Change (Raymond Williams)

The Core Purposes of Learning (from the Delors Commission on Lifelong Learning, The Treasure Within Learning to Know (learning to learn, general knowledge and understanding) Learning to Do (skills, competence, practical ability in a variety of settings) Learning to Live Together (tolerance, mutual understanding, interdependence) Learning to Be (personal autonomy, memory, aesthetics, ethics, communication and physical capacity)