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Understanding the contribution of the Third Sector in Learning & Skills
23 February 2010
This report from the Learning & Skills Council highlights that Third Sector providers play an important role in bringing disadvantaged adults and young people into learning and skills. People who undertake learning through third sector providers are more ethnically diverse, more likely to be resident in a deprived area, and more likely to have a learning difficulty or disability than those studying with other providers. Learners are also likely to be older.
Achievement rates for learners are comparable with, and in many cases better than, those of non third sector providers, particularly when learner profiles of multiple disadvantage are taken into account.
Third sector providers tend to take a holistic rather than a funding-led approach to learning delivery, enabling learners to extract maximum benefit from their learning. The personalised, flexible approach of third sector providers is central to their success, particularly with ‘harder to reach’ learners.
Long term contracts are vital for third sector providers, enabling them to engage in more effective future planning.
For more information visit: http://readingroom.lsc.gov.uk/lsc/National/Understanding_the_Contribution_of_the_Third_Sector_in_LSC.pdf
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