Posts tagged with "funding"
Developments: New strategy for education
Challenges: No COVID-19 compensation for the adult learning sector
Our respondents say that changed funding for ALE has slightly or dramatically worsened the financing situation at all levels. At the moment, the ALE sector is under pressure, and funding for the non-formal learning sector is non-existent. Training...
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: Adult learning is viewed as part of vocational education
According to EAEA’s members, adult learning and education in Greece has been overlooked and there is a unidirectional emphasis on vocational education. Other key areas of adult learning do not receive enough attention. EAEA’s members stress that q...
Challenges: Fragmented educational policies
According to the received responses, he biggest challenge for adult learning and education in Greece is its subjugated position compared to vocational training. Other challenges are low levels of participation, lack of systematic and long...
Challenges: new funding priorities oversee the potential of ALE
Funding situation of ALE slightly deteriorated due to changing priorities which put emphasis on funding programmes for the unemployed, distributed through the Directorate of Labour. According to the EAEA member in Iceland, the authorities have to...
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...
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: Funding and policies in the pandemic setting
According to EAEA members Higher School of Education at Polytechnic Institute of Coimbra, Escola Profissional Amar Terra Verde (EPATV) and Portuguese Association for Culture and Permanent Education (APCEP) the situation of adult learning and educa...
Developments: Implementation of adult education policies is not sufficient
According to our member in Serbia, Adult Education Society (AES), the situation of ALE has slightly deteriorated in the last year. According to them, there is a law, strategy, and other documents related to adult education, but the real-life appli...