LLAKES and Beyond Current Horizons
LLAKES has contributed to an initiative of the Department for Children Schools and Families (DCSF), in partnership with Futurelab, called ‘Beyond Current Horizons’. This was a research programme set up to examine how social and technological change over the coming 20 or so years may present new challenges or opportunities for education.
The overall goal of the project was to build a set of long-term and challenging scenarios for the future of education 2025 and beyond in the context of socio-technical change. LLAKES Deputy Director, Professor Lorna Unwin was a member of the steering group for the strand of research looking at Work and Employment. The strand was directed by Professor Rob Wilson, Deputy Director, Institute for Employment Research, University of Warwick.
Lorna also contributed a paper for the initiative’s evidence base called: ‘Connecting workplace learning and VET to lifelong learning’. Professor Alan Felstead, Visiting Professor to LLAKES and the IOE also contributed a paper, called:’Detaching work from place: charting the progress of change and its implications for learning’.
Both papers can be accessed at http://www.beyondcurrenthorizons.org.uk/evidence/work-and-employment/
