{"id":6033,"date":"2014-06-17T06:22:51","date_gmt":"2014-06-17T06:22:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=6033"},"modified":"2014-06-17T06:22:51","modified_gmt":"2014-06-17T06:22:51","slug":"niace-takes-a-giant-leap-sideways-with-its-eyes-wide-shut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2014\/06\/17\/niace-takes-a-giant-leap-sideways-with-its-eyes-wide-shut\/","title":{"rendered":"NIACE takes a giant leap sideways \u2013 with its eyes wide shut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.niace.org.uk\">NIACE<\/a> \u2013 which sells itself as \u201cThe National Voice for Lifelong Learning\u201d \u2013 has launched it\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.niace.org.uk\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/niace_manifesto_skills_for_prosperity_june2014_bw.pdf\">manifesto<\/a> for the elections in 2015: <em>Skills for Prosperity \u2013 Building Sustainable Recovery for All<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This says:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cThis manifesto urges all of the political parties to forge a new skills strategy for all which reflects the challenges we face and makes the most of the opportunities we have as people live longer.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The are 11 mentions of \u201csustainable\u201d, mostly as the phrase \u201csustainable recovery\u201d.\u00a0 There are no mentions of \u201csustainability\u201d or, indeed, of the wider world. \u00a0Horses race\u00a0at Aintree with smaller blinkers than these.<\/p>\n<p>Given that this document is supposed to be looking 20 years ahead, this is not just disappointing. \u00a0It's\u00a0pathetic. \u00a0Mass resignations from its self-satisfied Board would seem appropriate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NIACE \u2013 which sells itself as \u201cThe National Voice for Lifelong Learning\u201d \u2013 has launched it\u2019s manifesto for the elections in 2015: Skills for Prosperity \u2013 Building Sustainable Recovery for All This says: \u201cThis manifesto urges all of the political...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":237,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comment","category-new-publications"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/237"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6033\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}