Individual Learning Accounts: Honourable Intentions, Ignoble Utility?.

Thursfield, Denise; Smith, Vikki; Holden, Rick; Hamblett, John

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ERIC Number: EJ651569

Record Type: CIJE

Publication Date: 2002

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Individual Learning Accounts: Honourable Intentions, Ignoble Utility?

Thursfield, Denise; Smith, Vikki; Holden, Rick; Hamblett, John

Research in Post-Compulsory Education, v7 n2 p133-46 2002

Evaluation of the implementation of Individual Learning Accounts in Britain revealed five themes that may explain the program's lack of success: individualistic approach to adult education, conflict of individualism with partnership, ineffective targeting of low-skilled populations, lack of linkage with a lifelong commitment to learning, and confusion over the meaning of employability. (Contains 17 references.) (SK)

Descriptors: Access to Education, Adult Education, Educationally Disadvantaged, Federal Programs, Financial Support, Foreign Countries, Lifelong Learning

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative

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Language: English

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