Source: PIMA Bulletin 17, April 2018

Thirty years ago, I wrote an article bemoaning the state of adult and community learning (ACL) in the UK and calling for a Year of Adult Learning to raise its profile and a campaign for a new deal from government. The outcome was the creation of Adult Learners Week, a more modest but practicable initiative than the one I had envisaged, and eventually, a decade later, a commitment by a new government to a Learning Age.

Martin Yarnit

A common problem with books based on academic conferences is that the contributors, in their enthusiasm for their own specialist theme, sometimes seem indifferent to the big issues.  Longworth and Osborne, tireless toilers for the concept of the learning city and region, pinpoint a vital truth that they, almost alone amongst the contributors to Perspectives on Learning Cities and Regions[1] are preoccupied with: