Rencontres Céreq / Dares / Réseau Carif-Oref : De l’utilité de la prospective
Tous les deux ans, la Dares, le Céreq et le réseau des Carif-Oref organisent des rencontres pour partager des questionnements communs. Les 5es Rencontres viennent de se dérouler à Nantes sur le thème de la prospective.
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40 years of adult & community education
The Department of Adult and Community Education at National University of Ireland (NUI), Maynooth, is celebrating 40 years. Since 1975, the Department of Adult and Community Education has been at the forefront of development in adult educational practices, research, and innovation. More...
The social profile of students undertaking distance education programmes, IDEAL project
Distance education (DE) is often the only alternative for many adult learners, a recent study found.
The social characteristics of distance education learners were examined by the IDEAL (‘Impact of Distance Education on Adult Learning’) project. More...
Formalization of learning: It’s the space between domains that matters
The current issue of RELA (European Journal for Research on the Education and Learning of Adults) contains various perspectives on how adults teach and learn. The topics of this issue range from inclusion of youth with a low educational level in the offering of adult education and training, to the self-perception of adult educators, to learning through self-help books. Reinhard Zürcher, who works as an associate at the Pedagogical University of Vienna, contributed an Austrian perspective, writing on his research on the teaching-learning continuum. More...
Educational Games and Simuliations in Adults Education Process
The gamification of reality by the implementation of educational games and learning by using simulations, especially business simulations, is one of the possibilities to improve adult‘s education process, to make it not only suitable to the needs of today’s learner, to the variety of their learning styles, but also to reach higher effectiveness of learning itself. The seminar „Study process improving by integrating business simulations“organized by the Lithuanian Quality Management and Innovations Association together with Virtonomics (Simulation for Education) on 19th of May was devoted for the theoretical and practical justification of these ideas. More...
A third of British adults would fail to reach minimum standards of spelling for 11-year-olds
Just two thirds of adults achieved the 'expected level of attainment' for a primary school leaver, study finds.
According to research almost a third of British parents would fail to reach the minimum standards of spelling expected for 11-year-olds. The study involving 1,000 adults aged between 16 and 77 found that only 67 per cent would reach Level 4 in Standard Assessment Tests (SATs). More...
Improve prison education to cut crime, UK government urged
Improving prison education will help to cut crime and reduce the cost of reoffending, according to campaigners, Tes reports.
The Prisoner Learning Alliance (PLA) which represents 23 organisations including the Association of Colleges, the Open University and the Association of Employment and Learning Providers, has today urged ministers to give education a greater priority in prisons to help reduce the cost of repeat offending, which is estimated to be between £9 billion to £13 billion a year. More...
UK nations have biggest skills gaps, says OECD
A new study suggests that UK nations have the biggest skills gaps between young people who are not in education, employment or training and those in work, the BBC reports.
They had the widest literacy gap out of 22 countries included in an Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) analysis.
They also had the biggest gap in problem-solving skills, says the study. More...
Draft UNESCO Recommendation on Adult Learning & Education published
The draft is now available to download here directly from UNESCO's site. It takes into account the three key domains of adult learning and education: literacy and basic skills; continuing training and professional development; and education and learning opportunities for active citizenship. It is the final phase of the revision of the 1976 Recommendation on the Development of Adult Education requested by the Belém Framework for Action. More...
Estonian and Chinese Ministers of Education signed diploma recognition agreement
Estonian Minister of Education and Research Jürgen Ligi and Chinese Vice Minister of Education Li Weihong signed an agreement on mutual recognition of higher education qualifications, promoting cooperation and student exchanges between higher education institutions in Estonia and China.
The agreement was signed on 27th of April in Rīga, during the 5th Asia-Europe Education Ministers´ Meeting. More...
