[1] The aim of this conference was to set goals for universal access to and completion of primary education and to reduce the adult illiteracy rate to one half its 1990 level by 2000.
[3] Adult Learners' Week in the UK is now known as the Festival of Learning[4] The initiative is supported by the European Social Fund, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, Next Step, BBC, Open University and Pearson PLC.
‘[T]he origins of Adult Learners’ Week in Australia can be directly traced to the UK experience’.
[8] The ACE sector offers disadvantaged and disengaged learners points of access to vocational education and training, and work particularly for people who have struggled to complete mainstream schooling or for whom English is not their first language.
ACE organisations are also major providers of foundation skills programs and adult literacy support.