Improving Learning, Skills and Inclusion

How can opportunities for teaching and learning be improved to ensure that many more people participate, gain qualifications and obtain decent jobs? Will government policies enable us to achieve these goals? What new ideas do we need to ensure a more inclusive, equitable and efficient learning system? These are some of the main concerns which underlie this thought-provoking book coming from a major research project looking at how policies affect learners, tutors, managers and institutional leaders in Further Education Colleges, Adult and Community Learning centres and in Work Based Learning sites.  Post compulsory education in the UK has been constantly restructured by the New Labour government and has been subject to considerable policy turbulence over the last few years. This book attempts to understand this important but poorly understood sector by both talking to students and front-line staff and by interviewing the officials responsible for managing post-compulsory education and lifelong learning.  By examining the sector simultaneously from the ‘bottom up’ and from ‘top down’, the authors show how recent policy is affecting three disadvantaged groups - 16-19 year olds who have fared poorly in official tests at school; unemployed adults learning basic skills; and employees at work learning basic skills. The authors conclude that there are serious failings and suggest principles and features of a more equitable and effective learning system.

Education & Teaching

Finlay, Ian

Hodgson, Ann

Spours, Ken

Coffield, Frank

Edward, Sheila

Steer, Richard

Higher & Continuing Education

Routledge

This is a biography of the founder of the Iona monastery and community in which the author, having studied ancient documents and reading between the lines, sets out to destroy the accepted mythical image. He investigates the unconventional role of Columba as warrior-priest and king-maker as well as devout Christian, and traces his journeys from Ireland to Iona, Lindisfarne, Canterbury and Wales.

Columba

Biographies & Memoirs

Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd.

Physical description; 183 p., IV plates : ill., map ; 26 cm. Notes; Bibl.p. 174-175. - Index. Subjects; Art, Celtic - History. Celtic visual arts, (c.B.C.1200-A.D.1500). Art - Celtic. History. Art. Celts. visual arts - Celtic - (c.B.C.1200-A. D. 1500). Genre; Illustrated.

Celtic art;: An introduction

FABER

(Biography of the founder of the Iona monastery and community in which the author, having studied ancient documents and reading between the lines, sets out to destroy the accepted mythical image. He investigates the unconventional role of Columba as warrior-priest and king-maker as well as devout Christian, and traces his journeys from Ireland to Iona, Lindisfarne, Canterbury and Wales)

Victor Gollancz

Noyes Press

Kingfisher Books

The original edition, published in 1956, was the first in its field, and it remains the only comprehensive treatment of the subject.

Scottish Gold and Silver Work (The Little Books Series)

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Antiques & Collectibles

Pelican Publishing

This box contains a wonderfully illustrated mini-book and an audio-cassette on which Ian Finkay tells the story of Puss in boots.

Puss in Boots: 3 (French Edition)

Coffragants

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