Resilience and Responsiveness

RaPAL’s joint annual conference with the Learning and Work Institute, UCL IoE Post-14 Centre, UCU and NATECLA

Thursday, 3rd November 2016, UCL Institute of Education London

Booking and Call for Workshops

Booking is now open online here and the call for workshops is open to the 9th September 2016 here.

Conference Themes

Improving adults’ literacy, numeracy and language skills benefits individuals, society and the wider economy.  Ensuring that this is well understood and well supported by policymakers – both within adult learning and more broadly across the work of Government – has never been more important at this time of wide-reaching policy change.

Within the sector, providers and practitioners will need to be responsive to the challenges and opportunities current developments bring.  These include, for example, the devolution of the Adult Education Budget, increased flexibilities in locally agreed funding deals and the implementation of Functional Skills reform.

Practitioners and researchers in adult literacy, numeracy and ESOL have, collectively, a great deal of know-how about what works in adult literacy, numeracy and ESOL.  It’s important that this knowledge, experience and established good practice is not only maintained, but extended, shared and brought to bear on current opportunities and policy developments – for the benefit of policymakers, providers and new practitioners, and not least, for the benefit of all adults, including those with the greatest disadvantages, who stand to benefit from improved language, literacy and numeracy skills.

This conference is a chance to do just that.

Key Speakers

These conference themes will be addressed by keynote speakers:

• Dr Jan Eldred, L&W Senior Research Fellow
• Sue Southwood, Programme Manager, Education and Training Foundation
• (tbc)

Draft Programme