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50 Years of ERIC
50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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The Rise and Fall of Workplace Basic Skills Programmes: Lessons for Policy and Practice
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Wolf, Alison; Aspin, Liam; Waite, Edmund; Ananiadou, Katerina – Oxford Review of Education, 2010
Since the publication of the Moser Report in 1999, improving the basic skills of adults has been a major priority for all of the UK's governments. There has been a particular interest in building up workplace provision, because of the assumed relationship between the basic skills of the employed population and productivity. A longitudinal study…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Foreign Countries, Employer Attitudes, Corporate Education
Learners in the English Learning and Skills Sector: The Implications of Half-Right Policy Assumptions
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Hodgson, Ann; Steer, Richard; Spours, Ken; Edward, Sheila; Coffield, Frank; Finlay, Ian; Gregson, Maggie – Oxford Review of Education, 2007
The English Learning and Skills Sector (LSS) contains a highly diverse range of learners and covers all aspects of post-16 learning with the exception of higher education. In the research on which this paper is based we are concerned with the effects of policy on three types of learners--unemployed adults attempting to improve their basic skills…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Public Policy, Adult Education, Compulsory Education