Centre for Post-14 Education and Work

Our centre

Our centre seeks to research current and future-oriented perspectives on post-14 education and its role within society.

We will explore broad issues, such as globalisation, changing employment patterns, the ageing society, the effects of new technology, migration, dimensions of inequality, London as a global city, citizenship, and examine the role of lifelong and life-wide learning in helping people and organisations face these challenges and opportunities.

14+ formal and informal education

We are interested in all types of 14+ formal and informal education that take place in a variety of contexts - in educational institutions, at work, at home and through leisure activities - and are pursued for a wide range of purposes.

Background

The Post-14 Centre for Education and Work exists in order to stimulate and sustain investigation, reflection and debate regarding post-14 education policy and practice with a particular emphasis upon the contribution that such education makes to the prosperity and well-being of individual learners, their communities and the nation as a whole.