1. Stuart Hollis New Challenges, New Chances And the review of informal adult community learning

4. New Challenges, New Chances 1.Vision for the FE landscape and sector shape 2.Level 3 and 4 loans 3.Provider freedoms and flexibility 4.Funding simplification 5.Teaching, learning and qualifications 6.Review of IACL 7.Review of adult literacy and numeracy 8.Higher education 9.Increasing transparency

5. The adult education movement was not born of Government but of the people. And its primary accountability today should be not to the Government but to the people it serves. (Skills for Sustainable Growth foreword)

6. Challenge 1 The need to clarify Government objectives for spend on informal adult and community learning and its role in supporting wider Government policy objectives including the Big Society, localism, wellbeing, social inclusion and digital inclusion.

7. Challenge 2 The need to ensure that Government funding is sufficiently focused on the most disadvantaged.

8. Challenge 3 The need to provide robust evidence for IACL.

9. Challenge 4 The need to address funding anomalies and make funding fairer.

10. Challenge 5 The need to create the conditions that will enable a much wider range of informal learning to thrive.

11. Challenge 6 The need to ensure that workforce training and quality assurance arrangements support the new vision for BIS-funded IACL.

12. Have your say! NIACE on line survey for individuals http://www.niace.org.uk/current- work/the-iacl- review

13. Responding to New Challenges, New Chances Closing date 21 October 2011 hhttp://www.bis.gov.uk/Consultations/fe- and-skills-new-challenges-new- chances?cat=open