O lder learners are slower to learn but retain their learning more effectively.

That was what I was told in my ITTM (Instructional Techniques & Training Methods) course when I was promoted to Regional Staff Trainer for the Department of Employment (now the Department of Work & Pensions) way back in the 1980s.

And on the whole, I found that to be true, although it didn’t take into account the impatience and sometimes derision of younger learners who were being forced to learn ...