DAVID BLUNKETT

David Blunkett

David Blunkett

David Blunkett recognises the importance of lifelong learning as he refers to this in his foreword to the Green Paper. He states that to cope with rapid change people must be able to return to learning at any stage of their lives. He goes on to say that the government will encourage adults to enter learning at every stage of their lives.

We now have to re-think that design to meet the workplaces of the twenty-first century, which have changed much faster than have schools and colleges. Perhaps we should appoint a few head teachers and principals ...