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'Adults learning' is published 10 times a year and provides a forum for debate on all issues affecting adult learning in the UK. This issue contains a series of articles reporting on the Economic and Social Research Council's Teaching and Learning Research Programme (TLRP). The articles report on TLRP projects focusing on adult learning. 'Where's the vision' by Kathryn Ecclestone (p. 8-9) argues that raising standards in teaching and learning requires a deeper and more authentic understanding of adult learning and provides an overview of the TLRP projects that contribute to this goal; 'We are losing students because we are not accessing the skills they have got' (p. 10-12) reports on a TLRP project, 'Literacies for learning in further education, that aims to draw upon the literacy skills that students struggling with literacy in educational settings have in other domains of life in order to meet the literacy demands of further education; 'Adult basic skills: what's the problem?' (p. 13-15) highlights a planned five year study of the impact of workplace basic skills programs on employers and their workers; 'All together now' (p. 16-17) focuses on a project to look at how learning cultures can be transformed to increase engagement in community-based further education; 'Learning and living' (p. 18-19) introduces a large-scale longitudinal study of the learning biographies of adults to be undertaken in the UK to investigate the ways in which learning and living are interconnected. Other articles in this issue include: 'Learning to integrate' by Tom Osman (p. 20-21), in which the author reflects on how he learned to make curriculum accessible for his visually impaired student; 'Credit where it's due' by Finbar Lillis (p. 22-24), which explores what recent research says about credit practice and the potential for credit to support reform of the education system in the UK; 'ICT, a new Skill for Life' by Alan Clarke (p. 26-27), which suggests that the UK government's acknowledgement of information and communication technology (ICT) as a Skill for Life can act as a catalyst for change that will contribute to reducing the number of adults in the UK socially and economically excluded by a lack of ICT skills.