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The European Agenda for Adult Learning
- 1. The European Agenda for Adult Learning MARK RAVENHALL SENIOR RESEARCH FELLOW 29 APRIL 2015
- 2. Context (1)
- 3. Context (2)
- 4. European policy • Europe 2020 • “ET 2020” • European Agenda for Adult Learning
- 5. 2020 Benchmarks • At least 95% of children between the age of 4 & the age for starting primary education in early childhood education • Share of 15-year 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 5
- 7. Likelihood of positive social and economic outcomes among highly literate adults 1.0 1.5 2.0 2.5 3.0 3.5 4.0 4.5 5.0 Good to excellent health Being Employed High levels of trust Participation in volunteer activities High levels of political efficacy High wages Average England (UK) (scoring at Level 4/5 compared with those scoring at Level 1 or below) Odds ratio
- 8. European Agenda for Adult Learning – priority areas 1. Making lifelong learning and mobility a reality 2. Improving the quality and efficiency of education and training 3. Promoting equity, social cohesion and active citizenship through adult learning 4. Enhancing the creativity and innovation of adult and their learning environments 5. Improving the knowledge base on adult learning and monitoring the adult learning sector
- 9. What NIACE is working on • Linking adult learning to wider social and economic policy in the UK; • Raising awareness of the value of adult learning to UK citizens; and • Increasing participation of low skilled or less well qualified adults.
- 10. Our programme of work • Measuring the economic and social impact of adult learning • Impact Forums in each of the UK nations • Linking the OECD Adult Skills Survey with surveys in the UK • Developing a Citizens’ Curriculum • Enhancing digital skills • Employability skills for young adults
- 12. UK Partners • NIACE (England) • Forum for Adult Learning Northern Ireland • Scotland’s Learning Partnership • NIACE Cymru (Wales) • British Council/Ecorys • EPALE UK
- 13. European Basic Skills Network, EBSN ? • independent policy network • a meeting place for policy makers and policy influencers • a platform for a continuous dialogue and cooperation with the EU Commission • 67 members from 29 European countries, + 5 associate members from outside of Europe What is
- 14. To create a sustainable organisation • Membership is open • Annual Collaborative Workshop: The Hague: June 3 –5 • www.basicskills.eu • @EBSNhq Fostering policy development at EU level!
- 15. Working with EPALE • Sharing news, information, events, publications, and practice. Hearing about project-based discussions and the impact of adult learning • Learning from each other, about new developments in the sector, results of research etc. • Advocating on behalf of professionals and learners, initiatives or launch online debates/discussions. Giving voice to concerns or issues of European or national relevance—and backing this up with evidence!
- 16. For further information about the work of NIACE or ESBN please contact: Joyce Black, Assistant Director, NIACE. joyce.black@niace.org.uk Contact details
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- And if you have strong skills you are more likely to be in good health, employed, to trust other people, to volunteer and to have higher wages
- But there is no point getting people back into learning if the learning doesn’t meet their needs or the way they like to learn. This is one of my favourite projects, which is based on training young people as researchers to interview employers about what makes an ‘employable citizen.’ Research, in my opinion, should be about challenging our assumptions but it should also be about having an impact…in this case on both young people and employers. One employer said of their researcher: “Sarah came across excellently …demonstrating just the enthusiasm we look for!” As for the young people they reported feeling more confident about talking employers and as a result of the project have a better idea of what employers are looking for. One of our partners, Glasgow City Council Employment and Skills Partnership are now going to introduce ‘young person-led’ Q&A sessions with employers. This epitomises how such projects funded under the EAAL are transferable and influence practice. Finally policy…
- Perhaps the first thing to make clear is that when I say ‘we’ I mean NIACE (and NIACE DC) working in partnership with other UK agencies such as the Forum for Adult Learning NI and Scotland’s Learning Partnership who organised this conference. We all could not do this work without the support of the EC and the UK government and in particular the Dept of BIS and Scottish Executive who have both supported this conference. We are also building a relationship with the UK National Agency for the lifelong learning programme, Erasmus +, Ecorys and the British Council. And we hope to create more synergies in our work in future years. So as you can see partnership is very important to us at NIACE, but in this speech I’m also going to talk about three other P words that are at the heart of our work: policy, practice and promotion. But first I thought it would be useful for me to say why we are involved in this work and how it begins to address some of the challenges we all face.