The future of informal learning.

The author reflects on the launch of a consultation paper on adult learning in Great Britain. He states that taken alongside the consultation on re-focusing English for speakers of other languages (ESOL), it certainly marks a distinct change of tone from the single-minded focus on skills that has dominated the last few years. He mentions that one welcome implication of the paper is the possibility it presents to re-balance provision to enable providers to fund the infrastructure of effective community learning.