Posts tagged with "CONFINTEA"

  • Challenges: Adequate financing and sustainability

    According to BFE, there have been no changes in the funding of adult education in the last year. BFE would like to request more adequate financing for adult learning providers from the Bulgarian government. Concerning the ongoing pandemic, addres...

  • Developments: New adult education policies coming into force

    The position of adult learning and education is strengthened within educational policy, as Finland has undertaken structural reforms, such as the Reform of Continuous Learning, that will be relevant for both formal and non-formal adult education....

  • Developments: Educational inequality has increased

    Our Irish member, AONTAS- Ireland's National Adult Learning Organisation, observes a slight deterioration on the current situation of adult learning and education in Ireland.

    Educational disadvantage and inequality have been exacerbate...

  • Developments: ALE has no priority in pandemic times

    According to the EAEA member, Centro Internazionale per la Promozione dell'Educazione e lo Sviluppo (CEIPES) which works to provide education and training for youth and adults, the adult learning and education situation in Italy has not changed du...

  • Challenges: ALE remains focused on vocational training and education

    CSO’s focus areas for 2022 will be media literacy, environmental heritage, civil democracy, and promotion of adult learning. CSO is advocating for a better representation and visibility of adult learning and urges the government to include ALE in...

  • Developments: Lifelong learning remains focused on formal education

    According to The Catalan Association for Education, Training and Research (ACEFIR) adult education situation has remained the same compared to the previous year. There have been no new policies or strategies in adult learning and education (ALE),...

  • Developments: Swedish folkbildning continues to be active in policymaking

    Overall, the situation for adult learning and education hasn’t changed much since the previous year, except for some improvement for the folk high schools. There were no new adult education policies introduced in Sweden.

    The Swedish term...

  • Developments: Slovenian Presidency highlighted adult education

    The Slovenian Institute for Adult Education (SIAE) , communicates that althought adult education was strongly affected by the COVID-19 epidemic in 2020/21, the ALE situation has generally improved in Slovenia.

    The National Master Pl...

  • Developments: Digitalisation prioritised by the new government

    Overall, the responses from Germany see a slight deterioration of the situation in adult learning (ALE) in Germany for 2020/2021.

    From the point of view of the EAEA members, there were no major changes in Germany from 2020 to 2021 in ter...

  • Developments: New adult education curricula are planned

    According to the Catalan Association for Education, Training and Research (ACEFIR), the situation of Adult Learning and Education (ALE) in Spain has stayed the same in comparison to last year.

    In Spain, there are different autonomous comm...