Adult learning is recognized as a key component of lifelong learning and Member States are required to remove barriers to participation, to increase overall quality and efficiency in adult learning, to speed up the process of validation and recognition and to ensure sufficient investment in and monitoring of the field (European Commission, 2006, 2007; European Parliament, 2008; European Council, 2008).
It is unanimously recognized that adult learning can play a pivotal role in meeting the goals of the Lisbon Strategy, by fostering social cohesion, providing citizens with the skills required to find new jobs and helping Europe to better respond to the challenges of globalisation. Such needs are taken into consideration in this Volume where the main issues faced are related to what 33 European countries have been doing in order to raise the skills levels of low-skilled workers, address the problem of the high number of early school leavers, combat social exclusion, ensure the efficiency, effectiveness, quality of adult learning.
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Book Title
Low skilled take their qualifications "one step up"
Editors
Paolo Federighi, Francesca Torlone
Peer Reviewed
Number of Pages
120
Publication Year
2010
Copyright Information
© 2010 Author(s)
Content License
Metadata License
Publisher Name
Firenze University Press
DOI
10.36253/978-88-6453-179-3
ISBN Print
978-88-6453-174-8
eISBN (pdf)
978-88-6453-179-3
eISBN (xml)
978-88-9273-701-3
Series Title
Proceedings e report
Series ISSN
2704-601X
Series E-ISSN
2704-5846