Adult literacy
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Letters: Vocational education in the UK has always been seen as essentially for ‘other people’s children’, writes Michael Pyke, and Bernard Godding of the Educational Centres Association reflects on its role in addressing disadvantageT-levels reinforce class hierarchy
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Quick Reads adult literacy scheme to close following funding cutThe initiative has distributed almost 5m books to readers but is to shut following loss of Arts Council England funding and corporate sponsor
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Robert Lochrie obituaryOther lives: General secretary of the WEA who devoted his life to the cause of adult education
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Regina Kibel obituaryChampion of adult education in local government and member of many governing and advisory bodies
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For bibliophiles, it is tempting to buy books as presents to ‘fix’ people who don’t read – but this is snobbery of the worst kindThis Christmas, don't give books to non-readers
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Speed-reading apps: can you really read a novel in your lunch hour?Apps such as Spreeder and Spritz are bringing speed reading back into fashion. But what gets lost in this race for the last page?
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Cappuccino with extra Italian? Pop-up classes bring a buzz to adult learningAs further education colleges face funding cuts, could evening classes in coffee shops bring students and teachers together?
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Paul Fordham obituaryOther lives: University teacher with a lifelong involvement in adult education
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GCSE success should be celebrated – but for those who do badly, why should it be so difficult to recover later down the line?
There’d be less pressure on GCSEs if adult education hadn’t been slashed
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Cameron should be careful of linking English skills and extremismFunds to help migrants learn language are good, but will neither make up for earlier budget cuts nor help tackle radicalisation
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‘I can’t speak properly. I am different’: do you need to speak English to be a good citizen?New requirements for public service workers to be fluent in English echo David Cameron’s suggestion that good language skills are part of the fight against extremism. But at the same time, courses to train non-native speakers are being cut across England
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World Book Night: how poetry helps reluctant readers take flightThis year, the annual event to promote reading is giving away an anthology of poems for the first time, and the response has been extraordinarily positive
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Sharing my life story is helping other service usersAddiction drove me to crime and then prison, but thanks to the right support I’ve found a purpose: helping others to voice their experiences
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Alan Tuckett: the man who invented the ‘adult learner’Alan Tuckett spent decades arguing that education doesn’t end when you leave school, but is his legacy now under threat?
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Letters: RIP Bob Hoskins. Best remembered for the beautifully crafted BBC television series On the Move, on coping with aspects of illiteracyHoskins the hero



Key to prison education handed to governors