UCU: Adult learning

Motion

Motion text: Congress condemns the government's actions that restrict adult learning to only economically justifiable programmes. The Leitch Implementation Plan turns the FE curricula almost entirely over to employers through the approval by the Sector Skills Councils of all vocational qualifications. It also seeks to extend Train to Gain programmes to HE.
Over 1. 4 million adult learning places have been lost in the last 2 years. Funding for non-accredited adult learning has remained static since 2005 – no plans to redress this are evident. A recent consultation on informal adult learning even suggests that the support for taught classes is shifted to informal learning opportunities like those gained through use of the internet and voluntary work.
Congress calls on the NEC to be proactive in presenting an alternative approach that has at its heart a campaign for an entitlement to access to comprehensive and varied curricula for adults that are affordable.