Skilling me softly: a NIACE briefing on learning at work: taken from the NIACE Survey on Adult Participation in Learning 2006
This NIACE report shows that the government's strategy to stimulate learning in the workplace, based solidly on improving the qualifications of the UK workforce, has so far failed to change workers' learning preferences. When seeking to improve their job performance, all groups, but particularly working-class and low-skilled adults, and those who have had little opportunity to participate in structured learning, still favour informal learning. The learning divide only narrows for learning as participation - learning by doing the job, or by observation and engagement with peers and supervisors ... Show more
Authors: Aldridge, Fiona; Tuckett, Alan
Published: Leicester, England, National Institute of Adult Continuing Education, 2006
Resource type: Report, paper or authored book
Physical description: 11 p.
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