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Is lifelong learning still useful? Disappointments and prospects for rediscovery

Is lifelong learning still useful? Disappointments and prospects for rediscovery | Vocational education and training - VET | Scoop.it
This paper considers the potential significance of a concept of lifelong learning in the context of digital disruption. Having noted some contemporary contrasts in the visibility of lifelong learning policy, it revisits the earlier more widespread dominance of the concept, identifying not only variety but also tensions that are inherent and constituent. Drawing on examples from England and Singapore, difficulties arising from compass, scope and fluidity of goals are discussed, illustrating how lifelong learning can lose its meaning. The paper then turns to the prospects for a new concept of lifelong learning that may be more sustainable and meaningful in a context characterised by digital and other changes to the nature of work, suggesting that such a concept must be both life-facing and work-facing.
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Annual report 2016: UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning

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European Union. Guide for training in SMEs

European Union. Guide for training in SMEs | Vocational education and training - VET | Scoop.it
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The guide gives interested stakeholders information on how training and skills development can be pursued in the context of an SME (Small to medium-sized enterprises;). The guide details some of the key challenges SMEs face and information on how to deal with them and find innovate solutions. It also provides various examples from across Europe that stakeholders can benefit from.
http://bookshop.europa.eu/en/guide-for-training-in-smes-pbKE7809874/

 

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US. Continuing Professional Education Needs Assessments in Emergency Medical Services

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Emergency Medical Service (EMS) educators are faced with the daunting task of providing prehospital care providers with quality continuing professional education (CPE) while meeting the needs of various stakeholders. This study sought to find how EMS educators make CPE offering decisions by examining three primary areas: the sources of information used to generate CPE topic ideas, factors that influence decision making, and strategies used to collect and analyze data. Additionally, a comprehensive list of CPE offered by study participants from the last two years was generated, which demonstrates how these three areas drive EMS CPE.
http://www.adulterc.org/Proceedings/2012/papers/frasard.pdf

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CPD Framework for Teaching Offender Learners in the Community

CPD Framework for Teaching Offender Learners in the Community | Vocational education and training - VET | Scoop.it
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A Continuing Professional Development (CPD) framework for learning and skills practitioners working with vulnerable and marginalised learners, including offenders in the community.
The framework provides materials for practitioners and organisations to use in their own continuing professional development, covering nine important topics on teaching and learning.
http://www.skillsdevelopment.org/cpd_toolkit.aspx

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Germany. Is the shortage of skilled workers increasing companies' participation in continuing training?

In international comparative terms, German companies remain behind expectations when it comes to the continuing training of their employees. In light of the clearly impending shortage of skilled workers and rising requirements with regard to activities and skills, there ought, however, to be an increasing demand on the part of firms for company-based continuing training to act as an important instrument for the securing of economic efficiency and to cover training needs. The present paper serves as the basis for highlighting both this correlation and further possible factors exerting an influence on the willingness of companies to provide continuing training.

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Lifelong Learning And Reskilling: The Promise Of Micro Credentials

Lifelong Learning And Reskilling: The Promise Of Micro Credentials | Vocational education and training - VET | Scoop.it
From the first Industrial Revolution to the creation of the iPhone, technology has always changed the way we work. Yet today, that rate of change is at an all time high. This exponential speed of growth is unlike previous generations’ experience, and has significant impacts on how we’re training and reskilling for work.
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France. Vocational training and professional development: a capability perspective

France. Vocational training and professional development: a capability perspective | Vocational education and training - VET | Scoop.it
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Lifelong learning has become one of the keys to making workers' career paths more secure at both the French and the European policy level. However, the implementation of these policy lines raises delicate questions as to how the responsibility for vocational training should be shared among employees, employers and public institutions. The study, based on quantitative and qualitative surveys in which employers and their employees were consulted, shows that the environment provided by the company contributes more decisively than employees' previous training and career paths to the capability of the latter to attend vocational training and develop professionally at work. Relying on these empirical findings, it proposes a scheme for a capability-based conceptualization of professional development.
http://www.voced.edu.au/content/ngv52881

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The Impact of Formal Adult Education on the Likelihood of Being Employed: a Comparative Overview

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This article aims to map formal adult education in terms of the determinants of educational upgrading later in life, relating these back to social inequalities from a comparative perspective, and to labour market outcomes following participation, particularly the probability of being employed.
http://www.tlu.ee/stss/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/kilpi.pdf

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Romania. Lifelong Learning in the Knowledge Economy: Considerations on the Lifelong Learning System in Romania from a European Perspective

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In Romania, the concept of lifelong learning as such is quite new. Some aspects, like adult continuous education and professional training as well as the apprenticeship at workplace were offered extensive attention, but an integrative vision on lifelong learning was not transposed into legislation and practice, until recently. The paper offers a review of the measures taken for the development of the lifelong learning system in Romania. The most recent, the Law of Education 1/2011 set the premises for the desired lifelong learning system and aligned the Romanian educational system with the European vision on lifelong learning to facilitate the emergence of the knowledge economy. http://www.rcis.ro/images/documente/rcis37_03.pdf

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European Union. The role of higher education institutions as providers of continuous professional learning and adult education

The report aims to offer a review of the current volume of adult learning in higher education institutions (HEIs) and raise a limited number of key questions in this area.

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