The Centre for the Wider Benefits Of Learning (WBL) was established by the Department for Education and Skills (DfES) in 1999 to investigate the full range of benefits that learning brings both to the individual learner and society as a whole. Our two main objectives are:
To produce and apply models for measuring and analysing the contribution that learning makes to wide ranging social and private goals.
To devise and apply improved methods for measuring the value of various forms of learning, such as community-based adult learning, where we do not necessarily find standard outcomes such as formal qualifications.