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European Agenda for
Adult Learning
Martina Ní Cheallaigh
European Commission
Brussels, 6 May 2013
Date: in 12 pts
Overview
• Bigger EU policy framework
• Rationale and drivers behind EU Education and
Training policy
• European Adult Learning Agenda
• Some recent policy documents & their
significance for adult learning
Policy context
Europe 2020
ET 2020
A European strategy for smart,
sustainable and inclusive growth
Making LLL and mobility a reality
E&T quality and efficiency
Equity, social cohesion, active citizenship
Entrepreneurship, creativity and innovation
Seven flagship initiatives
Skills mismatch: supply and demand
Educational
attainment
Skills supply in 2011
Forecasted skills demand
2020
High
26.8%
35%
Medium
46.6%
50%
Low
26.6%
15%
Higher
competence
levels
Skills + key
competences
Competences
for all - equity
Demographics in the EU
Population age structure by major age groups
100%
90%
3%
11%
3%
12%
5%
6%
13%
14%
7%
17%
80%
9%
18%
11%
12%
18%
18%
70%
60%
60%
50%
61%
61%
59%
56%
54%
52%
51%
40%
30%
20%
10%
27%
24%
21%
21%
20%
19%
19%
19%
2000
2010
2020
2030
2040
2050
2060
0%
1990
Less than 19 years
20 - 64
Source: Eurostat: 1990-2010: observed populations
2020-2060: Eurostat projections
65 - 79
80 and over
Benchmarks for 2020
• At least 95% of children between the age of 4 & the
age for starting primary education in early childhood
education
• Share of 15-years olds with insufficient abilities in
reading, mathematics & science less than 15%
• Share of early leavers from education and training
less than 10%
• Share of 30-34 year olds with tertiary educational
attainment at least 40%
• Average of at least 15 % of adults (age group 25-64)
participating in lifelong Learning
Progress towards EU benchamarks
PRIORITY
BENCH
MARK
EU AVERAGE
2006
EU AVERAGE
2011
Early school leaving
10%
15,5%
13,5%
Tertiary Attainment 30-34
40%
28,9%
34,6%
Early Childhood education
95%
89,3%
92,3%
Employment rate (age 2034) - Employability
82%
79,0%
77,2%
Adult participation in
learning
15%
9,5%
8,9%
Basic skills
15%
R 23,1%
M 24%
S 20,3
R 19,6%
M 22,2%
S 17,7%
Participation by age
Agenda for Adult Learning – priority areas
• Making lifelong learning and mobility a reality
• Improving the quality and efficiency of
education and training
• Promoting equity, social cohesion and active
citizenship through adult learning
• Enhancing the creativity and innovation of
adult and their learning environments
• Improving the knowledge base on adult
learning and monitoring the adult learning
sector
Vision of adult learning by 2020
 Access to high quality learning any time in life for
personal, social and economic ends
 Awareness of each adult /each employer
 Fairly shared responsibility, adequate resourcing
 Learner / learning outcomes at centre supported
by guidance, validation, flexible provisions
 Learning locally with a significant role for social
partners, civil society and local authorities
 Active learning for seniors and mutual learning &
solidarity between generations
Education
and Culture
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Your Working Group-related Issues
Curriculum – impact on flexibility/progression
• basic skills (needed for participating actively in modern
society )
• transversal key competences, such as learning to learn,
sense of initiative/entrepreneurship, cultural awareness and
expression - European Key Competence Framework
• Learning outcomes with a view to "new skills and new jobs"
• Assessment
• Effective use of ICT, incl. Open Learning Resources
• Embedded, e.g. in work; Validation; Higher Education
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Your Working Group-related Issues
Quality – Personnel - Financing
• Improving the quality and efficiency ET2020
• Developing quality assurance for adult-learning providers,
building on existing frameworks, etc.
• Improving the quality of staff, e.g. by defining competence
profiles, establishing effective systems for initial training
and continuing professional development (Grundtvig)
• Intensifying cooperation with stakeholders particularly at
regional and local level
• Public commitment to the sector & support for those who
cannot pay, balanced distribution of funds across the
lifelong-learning continuum
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Continuity
• Building on the achievements of the
Action Plan, 2008-10 & its focus on
low-skilled and disadvantaged groups
• Developing the adult learning sector –
weakest link in the LLL chain,
including access to HE
• Renewed focus on increasing
participation, especially of those
furthest from learning
• Exchanging good practice & Date: in 12 pts
Education
and Culture
Complementarity
• Copenhagen process / Bruges Communiqué
• Bologna process & modernisation of higher
education
• Modernisation of schools: influences from nonformal sector
• Offering compensatory route/second chance to
early school leavers
• Assisting early childhood education through
improved parental education
• Intergenerational learning & exchangeDate: in 12 pts
Education
and Culture
Consolidation
• Emphasis on low skilled/low qualified groups &
taking their basic skills „one step up“
• Stronger emphasis on implementation within
Member States (national, regional and local level)
as well as through EU-level activities
• Effective liaison with all stakeholders: ministries,
social partners, business, NGOs, civil society
• Nomination of a national coordinator to steer
implementation, launch cooperation with other
countries and liaise with the Commission
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Commission contribution to the Agenda
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Awareness-raising
Literacy and other basic skills
Quality of the provision – working group
Financing adult learning – working group
Validation of non-formal and informal learning
Older people – learning for active ageing
Access to higher education
Data on adult learning
Communication on Rethinking
Education
1. Building skills for the 21st century
Transversal, STEM, Basic skills, VET systems
2. Stimulating open and flexible learning
Learning outcomes, assessment & recognition, ICT &
OER, Teaching staff
(SWD Assessment of Key Competences)
3. Promoting a collaborative effort
Funding through efficient investment, partnership
between institutions
Recommendation on Validation
Have in place arrangements for validation of non-formal and
informal learning, no later than 2018, thus :
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facilitating a better match between skills and labour demand,
addressing skills shortages in growing sectors
promoting better transferability of skills between companies and
sectors
helping citizens move around the EU to study and work
Increasing motivation for lifelong learning, particularly among
economically disadvantaged or low-qualified
Thank you for your
attention!
Contact: [email protected]
DG EAC: http://ec.europa.eu/education/lifelong-learningpolicy/adult_en.htm
Lifelong learning
programme
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