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European Agenda for Adult Learning
Martina Ní Cheallaigh
European Commission
Brussels, 6 May 2013
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
A European strategy for smart, sustainable and inclusive growth
Making LLL and mobility a reality E&T quality and efficiency Equity, social cohesion, active citizenshipEntrepreneurship, creativity and innovation
Europe 2020 ET 2020
Policy context
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 EUPopulation age structure by major age groups
24% 21% 21% 20% 19% 19% 19%
60% 61% 61% 59% 56% 54% 52% 51%
11% 12% 13% 14% 17% 18% 18% 18%
7% 9% 11% 12%
27%
3%3% 5% 6%
0%
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
60%
70%
80%
90%
100%
1990 2000 2010 2020 2030 2040 2050 2060
Source: Eurostat: 1990-2010: observed populations 2020-2060: Eurostat projections
Less than 19 years 20 - 64 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 benchamarksPRIORITY BENCH
MARKEU AVERAGE
2006EU 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 20-34) - 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%
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
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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
Education and Culture
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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
Education and Culture
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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 & experience among countries; programme support
Education and Culture
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Complementarity• Copenhagen process / Bruges Communiqué• Bologna process & modernisation of higher education• Modernisation of schools: influences from non-formal
sector• Offering compensatory route/second chance to early
school leavers• Assisting early childhood education through improved
parental education• Intergenerational learning & exchange
Education and Culture
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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
Education and Culture
Commission contribution to the Agenda
• 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 :
•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
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Thank you for your attention!
Contact: [email protected] DG EAC: http://ec.europa.eu/education/lifelong-learning-
policy/adult_en.htm