Right to lifelong learning
Learning and Work Cymru is providing support to the Welsh Government to help develop a new right to lifelong learning, with the aim of helping to meet individual, societal and economic need in Wales.
Lifelong learning
How do we ensure everyone has a fair chance to access lifelong learning?
What are the most effective ways to engage people and to inspire them to learn?
Lifelong learning has many benefits, including helping people to find work and build a career; improving health and wellbeing; supporting future generations, and helping people to be active citizens in their communities. Its importance is growing as longer life expectancy combines with a rapidly changing economy and society.
However, participation in lifelong learning has fallen over the last decade in Wales with large inequalities in access to learning by age, socioeconomic group, and prior educational attainment. Our work is focused on understanding patterns of participation in learning, researching the benefits, and developing ways to engage and to inspire people.
Our areas of work in lifelong learning
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Personal learning accounts
Personal Learning Accounts are one way to support individuals to retrain and to access learning to help meet their own needs.
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Adult participation in learning survey
Our survey series, which began in 1996, provides a unique overview of how many adults take part in learning, their reasons for doing so or not doing so, and how this varies by group and area.
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Learning in communities
Across Wales, community-based adult learning helps to build stronger, more cohesive and tolerant communities. Our aim is to build and share the evidence of the impact it has and make the case for greater investment.
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Family Learning
Can help to develop positive attitudes to learning, greater confidence and employability, improved health and wellbeing and improvements to young people’s development and attainment, helping to break the link between opportunity and background
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Youth Opportunity Index
Our Youth Opportunity Index brings together the key outcomes both in terms of education and employment for young people in Wales.
Want to know more?
For further information about our work on lifelong learning contact: Joshua Miles, Director for Wales