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The public value of adult learning: skills and social productivity / Leon Feinstein and Ricardo Sabates.

Feinstein, Leon; Sabates, Ricardo

This document may be found on the NIACE website at: <http://www.niace.org.uk/lifelonglearninginquiry/d....> (viewed May 2008)

Leicester, U.K.: NIACE, [2007]. 19 p.

Inquiry into the Future for Lifelong Learning

In this paper, the authors provide an overview of the findings of the University of London's Centre for Research on the Wider Benefits of Learning (CRWBL) on the benefits of adult learning. They set out an overview of the conceptual work undertaken, so as to clarify in a single, general framework the mechanisms for achievement of the wider benefits of learning. They describe within this framework the empirical findings on the benefits of adult learning, particularly with respect to adult health. Finally, they set out the possible barriers for why, despite substantial evidence that adult leaning is very important for people's lives and that the skills people developed through wider forms of educational provision are key for a large number of health and social outcomes, there is not greater investment in adult education.

Research centre; Adult learning; Skill development; Outcome of education; Europe; Great Britain

The National Institute of Adult Continuing Education (England and Wales) (NIACE) is hosting an independent 'Commission Of Inquiry Into The Future For Lifelong Learning' (IFLL) launched in September 2007. This paper is a submission to IFLL.

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