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| Record Number of Adults wanting to Learn | | | Source: TAEN Website 13/05/2010
A Change for the Better, a UK-wide survey of nearly 5,000 adults conducted by the National Institute of Adult Continuing Education (NIACE), also reports that:
- Current participation in learning, having fallen to its lowest levels for a decade in 2009, rose by three percentage points to 21 per cent in 2010.
- Women (23 per cent current and 44 per cent current / recent learners) continue to take part in larger numbers than men (20 per cent and 41 per cent respectively)
- Three in five (60 per cent) full-time workers plan to take up learning, a rise of 13 percentage points since 2009
- 58 per cent of part-time workers plan to study - a rise of nine percentage points on 2009
- For people seeking work there is an increase of 17 percentage points, with 67 per cent planning to study
- The overall numbers planning to study has jumped in 2010 to almost half (47 per cent), the highest number reported in a 20 year sequence of NIACE surveys.
- Almost as significant is the drop, from 47 per cent in 2009 to 34 per cent in 2010, who say they are very unlikely to take up learning in the next three years.
- The proportion of people reporting no learning since leaving school has fallen dramatically from 37 per cent in 2009 to 31 per cent in 2010, making clear that the rise in participation is reaching adults previously untouched by adult learning.
Alan Tuckett, Chief Executive of NIACE, commented:
“This survey shows something of a sea change in adults’ engagement in learning. After years in which the numbers in learning fell overall, and the gulf between the learning rich and the learning poor widened dramatically, there has been a major shift - not only in the proportion of adults who are engaged in learning, but also in adults’ expectations of taking part in the near future.
“Perhaps the most striking result in the survey is the first statistically significant improvement in participation by adults from social class DE - the poorest cohort, comprising unemployed people, semi- and unskilled adults and retired people. For 20 years, the percentage of this group reporting current or recent study scarcely shifted, with just one in four participating, whilst more affluent social groups each in turn increased the numbers participating.”
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