Participation in three adult learning settings

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A total of three sets of data from adult learning settings were included in this study. By adult learning we mean people taking part in adult and community education including literacy tuition. These were data from: the National Adult Literacy Agency (NALA) Distance Learning

Service (2010); data from the Department of Education and Skills (DES) Adult Literacy Returns (2010) and data from a questionnaire administered with adult learners in An Cosán Adult Learning Centre (2010). These data sets were compared against each other in order to explore who participates in adult learning in Ireland and to identify any similarities or common trends and solutions to issues arising. They were then compared against data from the Central Statistics Office (CSO), in particular statistics from the National Quarterly Household Survey (Q2) for 2010.

The findings fall into the following categories:

  • Gender;
  • Age;
  • Educational attainment; and
  • Employment status.
Author: 
The National Adult Literacy Agency
Date of Publication: 
Thursday, 7 February, 2013
Publication Category: 
NALA research