May 2007
Young Europeans demand recognition of non-formal education
Young Europeans demand recognition of non-formal education as complementary to formal education in their declaration for the future of EU. The American author Jeremy Rifkin supports the demand saying "this is a revolutionary part of your document!, bringing together formal and non-formal education".
Lifelong Learning Awards 2007
At an award ceremony held in Berlin on 6 - 7 May in Berlin for the launch of the Lifelong Learning Programme 18 projects were awarded the 2007 Lifelong Learning Awards.
Adult Learning loosers?
The annual Adult Learners´ Week survey on adult participation in learning, The Road to Nowhere? commissioned by the National Institute of Adult Continuing Education (NIACE) reports half a million adults lost to learning in the last year.
Good guidance?
The European Social Fund, the Leonardo da Vinci Programme and Grundtvig (Socrates Programme) have supported in recent years a number of projects in the field of guidance.
Guidance access
Broadening access to guidance provision is one of the priorities stated in the European Council Resolution on March 2004. How to develop guidance services that are customer-centred? How to reflect the differing needs and circumstances of diverse client groups? How to build up a differentiated service delivery? And what are the challenges for providers and practitioners in building-up a differentiated service delivery?
Validation resource center
A new web site for the Leonardo Thematic Monitoring Thematic Group on Transparency of qualifications, validation of non-formal and informal learning, credit transfer is now publicly available.
Development of competencies and qualifications
An evaluation report of UNICE/UEAPME, CEEP and ETUC is now available in EN, DE and ES
Ideaccess - Middle East and Central Asia
Ideaccess aims to make human rights resources accessible to civil societies in the Middle East and Central Asia, with a particular emphasis on resources considered useful for women's rights activists and women's movements.
Teachers Matter: Attracting, Developing and Retaining Effective Teachers
Published by: OECD Publishing
Version: Print (Paperback) Availability: Available Publication date: 28 Jun 2005 Language: English Pages: 240 ISBN: 9789264018020 Price: €37 | $46 | £26 | ¥4700 |
CFP: European Qualifications Framework
DG EAC of the European Commission is pleased to announce the publication of the second Call for Proposals to test and develop the European Qualifications Framework (EQF).
Media and intercultural learning
From 17-20th of May 2007, 24 partners of the network NILE met in Sopot, seaside resort of Gdansk in Poland, to discuss issues around the role and responsibility of media for fostering intercultural dialogue.
"Men and Education" - why do men learn less than women?
A comprehensive education has become the key to a successful future. However, male resistance to education, as established by recent studies, is an increasing problem which is becoming progressively more apparent.
It has been observed that few men take advantage of learning opportunities unless these are directly related to the attainment and development of professional skills - less than half the amount of their female counterparts.
Adult Education and Gender Issues in Serbia
Social and political changes in Serbia, as well as economic transition, are having a huge impact on the role and position of women in the society. Women are the biggest "losers" in the new model of society and economy and this is even more extreme if they belong to one of the (additionally) marginalised groups (national minorities, especially the Roma, rural population, the disabled etc.).
The workplace - a bastion of gender inequality
In France, men and women are equal. Well - they are in the eyes of the law. They share parental authority and have the same civil and inheritance rights. They are also equal in the eyes of the law in terms of political equality (2000), which, however, authorises parties to present electoral lists containing less than 50% women in exchange for payment of a duty…, just as one buys international pollution rights.
Self-Evaluation in Adult LifeLong Learning
SEALLL is a Grundtvig 1 project, part of the European SOCRATES educational programme and aims to improve the quality of teaching and learning and the quality of organisation and management in LLL by promoting and supporting self-evaluation. The project wants to help all 'players' in LLL-organisations self-evaluate their teaching, learning and management.
Lifelong Learning- more than mobility
Amid the clinking of many champagne glasses and the celebratory speeches mandatory at high level official events, the LifeLong Learning Programme was officially inaugurated in Berlin recently.
Calendar of the Portugese Presidency available
The almost final calendar of the Portugese Presidency has been produced.
Peoples' Universities in Poland
Educating adults in Poland has long been associated with the so-called university movement whose aim was to disseminate knowledge with particular consideration given to education and upbringing, social policy, national culture and environmental protection. People´s universities, whose development was significantly influenced by the idea of M.F.S. Grundtvig throughout the 20th century, became part of our modern day approach thanks to their rich tradition.
Adult Learners Urged to Use Election to Demand their Right to Learn
Ireland´s 300,000 adult learners will be called on to demand their right to learn at a rally organised by AONTAS, the National Association of Adult Education, in Dublin this morning (Thursday, 10 May 2007).
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