UIL Director addresses colloquium on adult education in Quebec

The TREAQFP (Table des responsables de l’éducation des adultes et de la formation professionnelle des commissions scolaires de Québec), is a network of stakeholders in adult education and professional training in the Quebec region in Canada. A colloquium is organised every year.
The 2013 Colloquium was titled ‘Complices de leurs succès’ (‘agents of their own success’), and took place from 22–24 May 2013.
It started with the key note address by UIL Director Arne Carlsen on Adult Education: Developments since CONFINTEA VI. A panel discussion followed on the situation of adult learning and education and TVET in Quebec, with Ms Denise Boucher, vice-president of Confederation of national trade unions, Mr Yves-Thomas Dorval, president of the Employers Council at Quebec, and Mr Raynald Thibeault, president of the Association of director-generals of the school commissions at Quebec.
Quebec’s Education Minister Ms Marie Malavoy also participated in the meeting and gave her full support to adult education development in Quebec and its role not only for TVET but also for social cohesion. On 23 and 24 May, 42 workshops were organised on themes like the relation between general adult education and TVET, need for strengthened guidance-counselling, social networks, virtual meetings, partnerships, apprenticeships etc.
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Programme of the 2013 TREAQFP Colloquium.