Adult learning sector experts say the government has ‘got it wrong’ and is calling for attention to be paid to a more rounded approach to learning.

Since 2005 nearly one and a half million state-funded adult learning places have been lost. The authors of a newly published collection of essays, Not Just the Economy, emphasise the high public value of adult education.

Co-author, Colin Flint OBE said: “The government is making a determined effort to address the nation’ skills shortages, but it has got this wrong.  We need an educated, critical, tolerant citizenry.  It’s not just the economy.”

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