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LIFELONG LEARNING LIVES ON


10 ISSUE 31 • SPRING 2018 INTUITION


Twenty years ago David (now Lord) Blunkett’s seminal paper, The Learning Age, put further education and training on the political map. Alan Thomson asks the former education secretary how his vision for lifelong learning has fared.


ew initiatives in the years following the Labour Party’s 1997 election victory exemplified the mood for change better than David Blunkett’s visionary green paper, The Learning Age, which was published 20 years ago in February 1998. The Learning Age put further education and


training, and especially adult learning, front and centre stage politically. The concept of lifelong learning – the idea that we learn, train and reskill


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