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OECD Report Highlights Health Benefits of Adult Learning

March 5th, 2008 · No Comments · Adult Learning, Science And Nature

The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development has published a report from the Centre for Educational Research and Innovation which links continued adult learning with reduced risk for neurodegenerative diseases. The report, entitled ‘Understanding the Brain: The Birth of a Learning Science,’ presents a review of recent developments in neuroscience as applied to the process [...]

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Could John Denham be the cat’s whiskers?

January 22nd, 2008 · No Comments · Adult Learning

Adult education classes have taken a battering in recent years. Can the new minister reverse the trend? Full story in the Guardian…

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