Adult Learning and Skills
Learning and Skills are key ingredients of the future prosperity of our city, which will be dependant on the availability of a highly skilled and trained workforce, ready to adapt and meet the challenges of the future. Peterborough currently has significantly lower than average levels of achievementand that this is a barrier to economic growth and to individual opportunity and prosperity.
The Adult Learning and Skills Partnership leads and co-ordinates the work of the partners in achieving the Adult Learning and Skills aspirations for the city. Our vision is to deliver the best possible match between the learning opportunities available to adults and the skills, knowledge, attitudes & behaviours that will strengthen the city’s community and economy.
The purpose of the partnership is to:
- Create a culture of lifelong learning.
- Highlight the importance of adult learning and skills within the Community Strategy aim of developing Peterborough as a “learning city and making it a better place in which everybody can work and learn”.
- Lead, develop, communicate and deliver an Adult Learning and Skills Strategy and enable all stakeholders, including adults, to get involved.
- Harness the capacity of adult learning and skills partners to create real opportunities for all adults to develop their learning, make the most of themselves and achieve excellence in standards of education and skill levels.
- Improve learning and skills outcomes for all adults age 19+.
- Enable individuals to develop the skills they need to gain employment, remain employable and therefore ensure local businesses are internationally competitive.
- Raise aspirations and life opportunities for adults in Peterborough by facilitating the best efforts of schools, colleges and other learning providers and stakeholders, ensuring these harmonise with the diverse needs of local individuals, communities and employers. Linking with the throughput of young people emerging from school.
- Promote provider collaboration and maximize the contribution of learning to neighbourhood regeneration and growth.
- Enable individuals to develop ‘learning for its own sake’ by embarking on informal learning opportunities which are often the first steps to accredited learning.
The interim chair of the partnership is John Bridge.
For more information on Adult Learning and Skills please contact Karen Moody, Adult Learning & Skills Strategy Manager on karen.moody@peterborough.gov.uk or 01733 863938.