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Life Long Learning

Adult Training in Hungary


What does ‘Life Long
Learning’ mean?
 „It’s never late to learn!”
 Learning society

 Economical increase

- Social stability

 Employment – active citizen


European processes

 Accelerating the development of


education and training
 Improving the competitiveness
of the European Union
 Accelerating the rate of increase
 Increasing the number of
workplaces
European processes
 Realising a knowledge based
society
 Equalization of learning
activities occuring in formal,
non-formal and informal
contexts
 Foreign language
 Applying sources of
communication
Activity Plan
 Improvement of basic competences
 New forms of consulting and
financing
 Developing new methods of
assessment in teaching and learning
 More money and time should be
invested in learning
 Innovative pedagogy
Quality indicators

 Improving the quality of learning


 Developing competences
 Increasing the number of available
participants
 Invesments in learning and financing
 Co-operation between the ministry
departments
For realisation of the strategy
still needed
 Employment policy
 Human resources-management
 Modern transmission of culture
 Free-time activities
 Modern youth policy
Main characteristics of Life
Long Learning
1. Learning that covers all spheres of
life
2. Learner based
3. Motivation to learn
4. Changing aims of learning

It is essential that the approach must


be directed by the demands.
Decisions to take part in
various forms of education
 Choise of profession
 Labour market trainings
 Trainings ensured by the
employer
 Acquiring the qulification
needed for a job
 Obtaining more knowledge in
the interest of various individual
purposes
Adult Learning

 6% of the people aged 25-64


participating in education in
Hungary (330 000 people)
 EU average 12.5%
Willingness to learn

 Among the 30-44 year-old: 3.3%


 Among the 45-64 year-old: 1 %
 Altogether: very low!
How do we learn?
 School – student
 Correspondence course –
learning along with working
 Distance teaching –
independent learning
 E- learning – learing supported
by information and
communication tools and
methods
Requirements today

 Practice orientated
 Competence based training

Competence: expertise, suitability


Groups of competences

 Basic competences:
writing&reading, counting, e-
competence
 Key competences: independent
learning, maths, sciences and
technology, general culture,
foreign languages, IT, social
skills, entreprising spririt.
Gouping of competences
 Professional technical
comptences: knowledge necessary
for carrying out the work,
behaviour-repertoir, mobility.

We have to take the contents


change of the professions into
account!
Learning today

It is an investment of money, time, work


and energy in order to reach our future
aims.

When do the investments recover?

Plotted against the obtained


competences, the time spent with
learning and against the further
learning motivations.
What can be expected?

 Development of a modell of life


long learning region
 Development of Learning
Regions
 Network integration of learning
Regions.

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