5.12 Lifelong learning should be for all aspects of life and meet a variety of needs and objectives. It should foster personal and collective development, stimulate achievement, encourage creativity, provide and enhance skills, contribute to the enlargement of knowledge itself, enhance cultural and leisure pursuits and underpin citizenship and independent living. This will require recognition of and support for a wide range of learning, undertaken in different locations, in various forms and through different routes. This variety will include increased opportunities for people to engage in culture, creative and leisure activity aimed at improving the quality of life in all its aspects.

5.13 Government, other funders and providers should seek to cherish equally those many forms of learning which can clearly demonstrate high quality, achievement for learners and added value. Through the varied achievements of learners and widened participation in learning, improvements should be sought in economic effectiveness, social cohesion, regeneration, community development, personal autonomy and responsibility.

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