Forum for Adult Learning N.I.

STATEMENT OF PURPOSE 

The Forum for Adult Learning NI is committed to the view that learning is a basic right and enables people to take control of their lives.

The Forum for Adult Learning NI is a voluntary network of stakeholder organizations with region-wide interests and responsibilities.

The Forum aims to ensure that Adult Learning is high on the agenda of the NI Assembly. It will do so by offering a coherent voice to engage with the Assembly in meeting its key objectives of growing a dynamic, innovative economy and promoting tolerance, inclusion, health and well being.

The Forum will aim to persuade others that improving, increasing and extending opportunities for adults to learn throughout their lives, has real public as well as personal benefits.

We seek to achieve our aims by:  

• Gathering evidence of the role, impact and value of Adult Learning to the social and economic development of NI.
• Engaging the interest of local politicians, policy makers, funders, those with responsibility for resource allocation and other key influencers.
• Participating in and influencing policy development
• Facilitating information sharing and dissemination within the wider sector.
• Keeping a watching brief on policy implementation.

MEMBERSHIP

Current membership consists of:

Age NI, Colleges NI, EGSA, OCNNI, ICTU, NICVA, OU, RCN, UCU, WEA, WRDA.