A Survey of Learning Communities

Towns, Cities and Regions in the Learning Age is designed to provoke debate about learning and its contribution to regeneration through detailed accounts of a wide range of models of good practice, combined with a practical approach to partnership building. It is aimed at practitioners and policy makers who care about the future of our towns and cities and want to harness learning as a means of shaping an uncertain future.

It provides a guide to good practice in learning communities in the UK and abroad through ten case studies. Six thematic sections deal with activities of particular relevance to neighbourhood renewal such as basic skills and citizenship. It also sets out the context in which learning towns, cities and regions have developed in recent years and identifies the forces behind the changing nature of the education and training system. It argues that learning community partnerships have an important role to play in bridging the gap between the mainstream providers and the new, initiative- and project-driven system if widening participation is to become a reality.

The Survey was edited by Martin Yarnit, and produced by LCN – the Network for Learning Communities, in collaboration with Local Government Association and DfEE. Copies are available from IdeA Publications, 76-86 Turnmill Street, London EC1M 5 LG. Phone 020 7296 6600 or Fax 6666. Price £20 (not for profit organisations) or £50 including postage.

"The Survey" - Learning Towns, Learning Cities

Published September 1998