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Scotland’s Learning Partnership (SLP) is the umbrella organisation for 500 members working in adult learning, covering stakeholders from learners to colleges and universities. Scotland’s devolved government was established in 1999, and developed an ambitious strategy for lifelong learning. Today there is a ministry for education and lifelong learning, with adult learning falling under lifelong learning.
On 6 February 2013, SLP organised a meeting in Edinburgh with 35 of Scotland’s leading adult learning experts on “The future of Adult Learning”, among them Tom Schuller (Director of Longview), Professor Mike Osborne (Glasgow University), and David Hughes (Director of NIACE).
The expert meeting was followed on 7 February by the SLP Annual Conference on the topic of “College Community Partnerships in Adult Learning”. The Conference was attended by 80 participants and opened by State Secretary for Education and Lifelong Learning, Michael Russell, who stressed the importance of focussing on the learners, and not on the institutions, and the need for developing a culture of creativity. UIL Director Arne Carlsen delivered a keynote speech on the CONFINTEA VI follow up meeting, the Sixth International Conference on Adult Education.
