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The powerful case for lifelong learning by the Committee for Adult Education 1919
Titled ‘Industrial and social conditions in relation to adult education’, the document was published in 1919 as a one of a series of interim reports, and yet it resonates far more than any corporate report of recent times. This is what it said about local government in paragraph 18 of the report “The general environment…
The lack of adult education and lifelong learning centres was called out 102 years ago
What the report in 1924 on The Guildhouse Co-operative Centre for Adult Education can teach today’s politicians and policy-makers Image: The Centenary Commission on Adult Education Report 2019 (Which needs looking at again as it was drowned out by the Brexit noise in the general election). You can browse through the guide that arrived this…
Why did The Treasury not cover Land Value Capture in its Green Book Review?
And why do big infrastructure projects in the UK cost so much more than most of the rest of the world? Image: Land Value Capture in the USA – read how they do it You can read the Government’s One Year Review of the Green Book here “What is the Green Book?” “The Green Book…
The Cambridge Town Owl 