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Basic Competence in Working
Life
Hanne Christensen
Assistant Director
Unit for Basic Skills
Vox
Norwegian Institute for Adult Learning
Oslo 23 October 2008
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The Competence Reform 1999
Main objectives:
• to help meet the needs of individuals, society and
the workplace in terms of skills and knowledge
• to give adults more opportunity to acquire education
and training to improve their qualifications
• to put non-formal and informal competences on a
more equal footing with formal competences
• to establish a system to ensure opportunities for
adults to have their knowledge and skills
documented regardless of where these
competencies were acquired
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Surveys and scores
• Results from IALS and ALL
• A minimum of 400 000 have a low score in
literacy and numeracy
• At risk in working life
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Some facts about the scores
• In general, the number of people with low basic
skills increases with age
• Every fifth person between 16 and 20 is at risk
• Immigrants, especially from non-western
countries, have a low score
• Among people with low scores, these factors
occur more frequently: low levels of education,
unemployment, social benefits as main income
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Addressing the challenges
• Basic Competence in Working Life was
started in 2006
• Funding programme
• Government focus on adult skills
• Funded over the National Budget
• Administrative and academic
responsibility  Vox
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Programme purpose
• The purpose of the programme is to fund and
monitor basic learning projects in enterprises, or
• projects aiming at preparing people for working
life in cooperation with the Norwegian Labour and
Welfare Administration
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Programme goals
• Giving adults the opportunity to improve their basic
skills
• Increasing quality of provision 
• Strengthening education providers’ ability to offer
education adapted to the needs of enterprises and
individuals
• Increasing awareness of and open-mindedness,
reduce stigma
• Increasing knowledge of the barriers and success
factors
• Overall goal: to prevent exclusion from working life
because of insufficient basic competence
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An important sub-project
The framework for basic skills for adults:
• to increase the quality of teaching
• to ensure an education tailored to the needs
The framework comprises:
• descriptions of levels
• guidelines for providers
• mapping tools and tests
• a model for teacher training.
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Programme
priorities
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Maintaining flexibility and work capacity
Literacy, numeracy, digital competence
Any enterprise, private or public, can apply
Criteria:
– should be combined with work and
preferably other job-relevant learning
– level: ‘lower secondary school’
– strengthen motivation
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The scope of projects 2006 and
2007
• 2006 (the first programme year): a total of 14,5
million NOK was allocated to 64 enterprises
• 2007: a total of 20 million NOK was allocated to
69 enterprises
• Not a permanent offer  depends on
political priorities for each year’s National
Budget
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Projects in 2008
• 25 mill.NOK - 78 enterprises
• reading, writing, numeracy and basic digital
competence
• both private and public enterprises
• no fixed amount per participant
• totally free for the participants
• mostly during working hours
• possible compensation for loss of productive time
• information campaign
• from 2008: applications have to relate to the
recently established Framework for Basic Skills for
Adults
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Evaluation of the programme
• Commissioned by the Ministry
• Assess overall impact on participants and
enterprises
• Early days yet
• Good reports
• Increased interest and awareness
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Lessons learned and future
challenges
• The importance of motivation
• ICT as a motivating factor for other basic skills
• The importance of openness
• Political level  keep the programme running
• Reaching the target group
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Project example
• Example: Hydro Industries
• Employees without a trade certificate are
marginalised and leave work at a young age
• Low reading skills is a major factor
• Increase in writing and reading  safety, reporting,
computerised processes, trade certificates, other
certificates (e.g. forklift)
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The Framework for Basic Skills
for Adults
• The Framework for Basic Skills for Adults was
approved in the autumn of 2007 by The
Norwegian Ministry of Education and Research.
• It establishes standards for literacy, numeracy,
digital competence and oral communication.
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The Framework for Basic Skills
for Adults
• A sub-project under the programme Basic
Competence in Working Life
• Content / skills level comparable to primary
and secondary school, but adapted to the
needs of adults
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Main objective
•To increase the quality of teaching and
ensure that the individual can get
education adapted to his/her needs…
•… so that every adult can attain the
level of basic competence…
•… that enables him/her to meet the
increased demands of today’s work and
everyday life.
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Active citizenship
• Increased understanding
• Increased participation
• Empowerment
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Guidelines, tools and teacher
training
2008  further development of the
content of the Framework for Basic Skills for
Adults:
• guidelines for providers
• mapping tools and tests
• didactic models
In addition Vox has been assigned the
responsibility to design a model for teacher
training - customized to the needs of
teachers who teach basic skills to adults. 19
An inter-connected system
Materials & models
The framework;
description of
competence
goals
Course content
Teacher
Mapping tools training/PD
and
guidelines
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Thank you!
Read more on our website,
www.vox.no >> English Pages
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