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Life begins at 50! — ... a residential course providing older learners with their first taste of adult learning
Author(s)	Graham Wilkinson
Journal title	Adults Learning, May 2001
Pages	pp 11-13
Keywords	Adult Education ; Residential courses ; Projects ; Lancashire.
Annotation	In early 2000, the Adult Residential Colleges Association (ARCA) secured funding from the Department for Education and Employment (DfEE) under the Government's strategy to widen participation in learning as a means of promoting social inclusion. This enabled a series of different initiatives to be undertaken by some of the 30 short-stay colleges in ARCA membership. Each project was aimed at hard-to-reach learners with little or no prior involvement in post-compulsory education. This article describes the project at Alston Hall Residential College, Lancashire, and considers the outcomes that emerged. (RH).
Accession Number	CPA-011109206 A
Classmark	GP: VEG: 3E: 8L *
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