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Dicketts, Sally; Landman, Robin – Adults Learning, 2011
During a recent episode of Radio 4's Desert Island Discs, Kirsty Young's guest--one of Britain's most influential women--explained how a further education teacher had changed her life. Heather Rabbatts, who was born in Jamaica and moved to England, found school difficult. She was "picked on for being mixed-race," failed her 11-plus and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Females, Multiracial Persons, Minority Group Students
Aldridge, Fiona; Tuckett, Alan – Adults Learning, 2010
NIACE's 2010 representative sample survey of adult participation in learning in the UK shows something of a sea change in adults' engagement in learning. After years in which the numbers reporting participation in learning fell overall, and the gulf between the learning rich and the learning poor widened dramatically, there has been a major…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Student Attitudes, Foreign Countries, Adult Learning