DOCUMENT RESUME ED 378 354 CE 067 945 AUTHOR Brook, Les, Ed. TITLE Serving Communities. INSTITUTION Staff Coll., Bristol (England). REPORT NO ISBN-0-907659-83-7 PUB DATE 93 NOTE 146p. AVAILABLE FROM Staff College, Coombe Lodge, Blagdon, Bristol BS18 6RG, England, United Kingdom (11.50 British pounds) . PUB TYPE Research/Technical (143) Reports Collected Works General (020) EDRS PRICE MF01/PC06 Plus Postage. DESCRIPTORS Access to Education; *Adult Education; Adult Learning; Adult Literacy; Adult Programs; Community Colleges; Cc.munity Development; *Community Education; *Delivery Systems; Economic Development; *Educational Needs; Educational Objectives; Educational. Practices; *Education Work Relationship; Financial Support; Foreign Countries; Job Training; Literacy Education; Older Adults; Open Universities; Program Administration; Relevance (Education); Retraining; Role of Education; Rural Areas; Rural Education; School Business Relationship; *School Community Relationship; Training Methods; Visual Impairments; Vocational Education IDENTIFIERS *Great Britain; Latin America; United States ABSTRACT This book contains 15 articles about various aspects of community further education (FE) programs in Great Britain, including program rationales/benefits, administration, and delivery. The following articles are included: "Forew.:;rd" (Bradshaw); "Commitment to Community Is Good Business and Practical Politics" (Brook); "Can We Serve Communities in the Market-Place?" (Johnston); "The Community Profile as a Key to Growth and Equity" (Powell, Buffton); "More and Different: Funding Regimes and Community FE" (Tuckett, Powell); "Taking Ed ,r.ation and Training into the Community: East Birmingham College" (Addey); "Serving Communities that Lose Their Livelihoods: The Miners of Soutl. Wales" (Trotman, Francis); "Mobilising Communities for Learning: The Sheffield Black Literacy Campaign" (Gurnah); "Community Access to further Education through Open College Credits" (Webb. Redhead); "Supporting Visually Impaired Students in Vocational Education" (Connell); "When I Get Old..." (Soulsby); "The College in the Countryside" (Cathles, Fazaeli); "Efficient and Effective--and Serving the Community" (Sawyer); "Ireland: Serving a Divided Community" (Shanahan); "Serving the Community: Community Colleges in the USA" (Evans); and "An Education and an Economy for Survival: Committed to Communities in Latin America" (conversation of Luna, Gardener, and Brook translated by Payne). (MN) ict NI Mr" erVin g C*1 00 eo) ommunities I S DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION "t .". .I Co. e .1 F EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES INFORMATION CENTER (ERIC) res document has been reproduced as "PERMISSION TO REPRODUCE THIS received horn the person or organir:Iron MATERIAL HAS BEEN GRANTED BY oricynating rt Moor changes have berm made .mprove legend., hen rutauty this ° Points on vtow Of oontons rAtited document do not necessarily represent o!licral OERI posrtion or policy TO THE EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES INFORMATION CENTER (ERIC) C. association for colleges r) BEST COPY AVAILABLE Serving ommunities i tor: I,c l3rc>crlt v' .4 Published by The Staff College in association with the Association for Colleges Published by The Staff College in association with the Association for Colleges Copies of this book can be obtained from: The Staff College Coombe Lodge Blagdon Bristol BS18 6RG The views expressed in the book are those of the authors. They should not be taken to represent the policies of The Staff College or the Association for Colleges Commissioning Editor Les Brook Cover design by Susan Leather, The Staff College Layout and sub-editing by Pippa Toogood, The Staff College Typesetting by Action Typesetting, Gloucester Cover films produced by Triangle Design Print PR, Yatton Printed in the UK by Booksprint, Bristol ISBN 0-907659.83-7 The Staff College and the Association for Colleges 1993 All rights are reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, electrical, chemical, optical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior permission of the copyright holders. For Margaret u Contents Acknowledgements About the authors 9 Foreword David Bradshaw 15 Section A: Introduction 17 Chapter 1: Commitment to community is good business and practical politics 18 Les Brook Chapter 2: Can we serve communities in the market-place? 29 Rennie Johnston Section B: College management for the community 39 Chapter 3: The community profile as a key to growth and equity 40 Bob Powell and Jacqui Bufflon Chapter 4: More and different: funding regimes and community FE 48 Alan Tuckett and Bob Powell Section C: Delivering the goods 61 Chapter 5: Taking education and training into the community: East Birmingham College 62 Bob Addey Chapter 6: Serving communities that lose their livelihoods: the miners of South Wales 68 Colin Trottnan and Hywel Francis Chapter 7: Mobilising communities for learning: 75 the Sheffield Black Literacy Campaign Ahmed Gun, It Community access to further education Chapter 8: 82 through Open College credits Sue Webb and Sharon Redhead Supporting visually impaired students in Chapter 9: 92 vocational education Kevin Connell 99 When I get old... Chapter 10: Jim Soulsby 107 The college in the countryside Chapter 11: Gill Cathies and Toni Fazaeli and serving the community 113 Efficient and effective Chapter 12: Mary Sawyer Ireland: serving a divided community 120 Chapter 13: Peter Shanahan Section D: How others deliver the goods 133 Serving the community: Chapter 14: community colleges in the USA 134 Norman Evans An education and an economy for survival: Chapter 15: committed to communities in Latin America Carlos Tamez Luna in conversation with Sue Gardener and Les Brook (translation by John Payne) Acknowledgements The production of this book has meant considerable labour for many. Of course, the writers have done an excellent job, and have shown great professionalism in the face of much editorial fire. But I'd like to acknowledge also the help of an army of other people. I hope that readers will not blame them for any hortcomings of the book, only praise them for their selflessness and the contribution they made towards getting a lot of it right. In no particular order, my thanks to: Mary Wolfe, Gill Arnroon, Gordon Stokes, Phil Barnett, Aidan Pettit, Terry Ashurst, Diane Brace, David Eade, Mike Field, Martin Johnson, Adrian Perry, Keith Sellars, Chris Hubbard and the staff of SOLOTEC, Will Bridge, Don Carroll, Asif Chaudhary, Peter Clyne, Pat Davies, Ruth Silver, Maggie Chadwick, Jens Schneider, Alan Wells, Sue Pedder, Deborah Cooper, John Payne, Eric Midwinter, Pippa Toogood and the staff of The Staff College for their publishing and other skills, and David Bradshaw for commissioning the book, being patient and giving much guidance. Les Brook r. 7 About the authors Bob Addey left school at 15 to work as a galley boy and concluded his seafaring life as a pilot cutter captain in the Humber next to his native Hull. He took an Open University degree, developed a lifetime commitment to adult and further education, and began a new career in FE, starting as a part-time teacher. After a full-time post in rural Lincolnshire, he moved to the inner-city to work at East Birmingham College where he led the development of community-based provision, became External Liaison Manager, and now occupies a senior management role as a quality improvement leader. David Bradshaw is Chairman of the Association for College's editorial board. He taught in schools and in colleges of education before becoming Principal of Doncaster College of Education (1970-75) and then of Doncaster Metropolitan Institut- of Higher Education (1976-89). He was a member of the board of the National Advisory Body for Public Sector Higher Education and Honorary Secretary of The Association of Colleges for Further and Higher Education from 1983 to 1988. Since his retirement from FE management in 1989, David Bradshaw has worked as an education consultant and was Deputy Director of the RSA's project on post- compulsory education, 1990-93. Les Brook works as Education Advisor to the South London Training and Enterprise Council, on leave from his 'day job' as Vice-Principal of Newham Community College in east London. Prior to 1986, when he started in Newham, he had a varied career in further and adult education, including a seven year spell as Deputy and Acting Principal of Speithorne Adult Education Institute in Surrey. Jacqui Buffton is currently Education Officer (Post-16) with Gloucestershire County Council. With a background in FE and in the voluntary sector, she was 9 REPLAN Field Officer for the South and South West of England between 1986 and 1989, and has also worked as National Co-ordinator of the Ford EDAP initiative. Gill Cathles has been working with women in the Melton and Rutland area for the past 15 years. She worked on an FEU research project (adult education and training in a rural area) in 1988 and was responsible for setting up the first women's day project at Uppingham Community College in 1988. Gill is now Access Co-ordinator at Melton Mowbray College of FE, responsible for the Women's Access Programme and associated projects such as Women into Engineering and Educational Guidance in a Rural Area funded through ESF. She is a member of the Leicestershire TEC's Rural Issues Task Force. Kevin Connell was educated in both segregated and integrated settings before attending university at York and Edinburgh. After teaching social science subjects in mainstream further education for 14 years, he was appointed Principal of RNIB Vocational College in January 1987 with a brief to move the college on to the Loughborough campus and establish a partnership with Loughborough College. As a blind person himself and as a member of the Association of Blind and Partially Sighted Teachers and Students, he has campaigned with others since the early 1970s for the properly supported integration of visually impaired people into mainstream education. His appointment to the RNIB project allowed him to implement many of the ideas which he had been advocating throughout his career. Norman Evans founded the Learning from Experience Trust as its Director in 1986. Immediately before this, he had spent six years as a senior fellow of the Policy Studies Institute establishing the reliability and validity of the assessment of prior and experiential learning as the foundation for its subsequent application in higher and further education, employment and training. Earlier he was a research fellow at the Cambridge Institute of Education, Principal of Bishop Lonsdale College in Derby, Director of Professional Studies at Culham College and headmaster of Senacre Secondary School in Kent. During the last 10 years, he has taken over 180 British academics and administrators on study tours to American universities and colleges. He has lectured and written extensively on the assessment of experiential learning. Toni Fazaeli is an adult education advisor in Leicestershire. From 1988 to 1990 she worked for UDACE as the Access Development Officer. Her publications include Innovations in access volume 2: case studies of institutions and Black community access. She has wide experience as an adult tutor in higher and further education, community education and prisons. Over the last 18 months, Toni has focused on the implications of the new FEE legislation and on ways of 10 0