Teaching younger children through 'guided' play supports key aspects of their learning and development at least as well - and sometimes better - than the traditional direct instruction they usually ...

Singapore’s improvements are encouraging over the two cycles of testing in the Survey of Adult Skills under the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development's (OECD) Programme for the ...

There are 36 million adults lacking basic literacy in the United States. Many of them might be considered relics of the industrial age supplanted by an era of knowledge work, but an estimated 12 ...

Around 400 adult learners and college lecturers descended on Parliament this week to demand their MPs seek a reversal of ...

Many people wish they had learned certain skills earlier in their lives. So, Aberdeen High School started a new after-school ...

British Journal of Educational Studies, Vol. 61, No. 1, SPECIAL ISSUE: LEARNING AND LIFE CHANCES IN KNOWLEDGE ECONOMICS AND SOCIETIES (March 2013), pp. 7-24 (18 pages) In this article we argue that ...

SINGAPORE - In the past three months, Mr Yeo Li Pheow has been kept busy at the helm of the Institute for Adult Learning (IAL). The 63-year-old has held the position of executive director of the ...

Wigan’s adult learning and skills service has been hailed as ‘good’ by inspectors. At the time of the Ofsted inspection in December there were 281 enrolled on adult learning programmes at the Wigan ...

Wood County Adult Learning Center instructors Tanner Hunter, from left, Melissa Everly and Deanna Addis stand in front of the center’s new location in St. Joseph Landing on Friday afternoon. (Photo by ...