| StorageSite | UCL Institute of Education |
| AdminHistory | The Centre was established in 1999 alongside the Centre for Research on the Economics of Education and a Review Centre for Evidence-based Policy after a successful bid for funding to the Department for Education and Employment. It was to investigate the non-economic benefits that learning brings to the individual learner and to society as a whole. In the first year of its work its programme was to: investigate models and measures that have been used to assess the non-economic of social benefits of learning; identify research themes and knowledge gaps to form the basis of the main research programme; formulate an evaluation framework for the implementation of policies stemming from the government's White Paper on Lifelong Learning; and develop major data collection, dissemination and communication tools through an interactive website (http://www.learningbenefits.net/). Research explores the relationship between learning and health, crime, parenting, citizenship and social cohesion, and evidence on the early years, schooling, and further, higher and adult education are used. |