Learning Communities
MYA has worked with Learning Communities in South East Wales, Oxford and Swindon reviewing their work and charting new ways forward. We developed the national embedding strategy for the Testbed Learning Communities set up as part of the 2003 Skills Strategy. Martin Yarnit has researched and written two major reviews of learning communities in the UK and abroad published in 2000 and 2006, funded by DfES: Building Local Initiatives for Learning, Skills and Employment: Testbed Learning Communities Reviewed, and Towns, Cities and Regions in the Learning Age. He has written a review of the implications of the Egan Report on sustainable communities for learning and skills development: Regeneration and All That: Learning and Skills and Sustainability.Martin was the founder and a previous chair of the Learning City Network, and has spoken at events organised by the Australian, Canadian and Catalan Governments and delivered a keynote address on UK development at the European Lifelong Learning Conference in Finland in January 2007. He has written widely on the relationship between learning communities and urban regeneration including a research overview for Pascal, the international observatory, Area Regeneration in England: is there a success formula? Liz Cousins, in a previous role as Head of Adult and Community Learning at Nottinghamshire County Council, set up Learning Community Operations Groups (COGs), a mechanism for involving local people in the planning of local delivery which has been widely copied.
Examples of work are displayed below.
Downloads
- Oxford Learning Communities: Final Evaluation
- Glasgow and Gothenburg: Tale of Two Learning Cities
- Realising the Potential: Recognising Residents' Achievement in Regeneration
- Learning Communities in Yorkshire and the Humber
- Strengthening Lifelong Learning Through Practice
- What a difference a week makes: Adult Learning Week
- Building Local Initiatives for Learning Skills and Employment
- Area Regeneration in England: Is there a success formula?
- Regeneration and All That: Learning and Skills and Sustainability
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