| Description | What do U3As want from learning? This was the theme of a small research project conducted on behalf of the National Institute of Adult Continuing Education (NIACE) for its Older and Bolder initiative, which aims to persuade educational providers of all kinds to recognise, cater for and encourage older learners. An important part of this campaign has been to update basic data about what kinds of learning older people take up and why, and in what numbers. |
| Topics | Ageing
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| Type | External research about U3A |
| U3A | National
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| Organization/partner | NIACE |
| Year started | 1998 |
| Source of reference | Sources No.2, Nov 1998 |
| Notes | Mapping exercises on older learners were set up for further education, higher education, and local education
authorities. For the study based on communities, it was agreed that U3As wishing to participate would act as a
focus. They would survey their own members’ activities and suggest ways a community profile of later life
learning could be compiled. They would be encouraged to conduct the research themselves, with a modest
financial contribution from the national project, and share the results with the research co-ordinator. |